Frank Gehry Walt Disney Concert Hall Sketch

Model created by jodi lane sokolov 4d design and imaging.

Frank gehry walt disney concert hall sketch. Frank gehry is probably the most famous living american architect. I took my father who was visiting from colombia in october 2010 1 week before he died. It opened on october 24 2003. Concert concert hall disney gehry hall los angeles orchestra philharmonic signature venue.

The history of the building began in 1987 when lillian walt disney widow of businessman donates 50 million to start building a philharmonic hall. Laid end to end the folding billowing stainless steel exterior panels would stretch for 49 miles. Images by andrew barber. The material encompasses the period from gehry s early graduate studies to the 1988 competition entry for the walt disney concert hall in downtown la the year before he won the prestigious.

Completed october 23 2003 the walt disney concert hall celebrates its tenth anniversary today. How they embrace and envelop the people in and. The walt disney concert hall at 111 south grand avenue in downtown los angeles california is the fourth hall of the los angeles music center and was designed by frank gehry. Designed by architect frank gehry walt disney concert hall is the primary venue for the los angeles philharmonic.

With this new material gehry was able to tweak the shape of the exterior creating the iconic silver sails we see today. I am proud to show it every time i have out of town visitors. In architect frank gehry s original design walt disney concert hall was intended to be clad in stone. We were at gustavo dudamel s la philharmonic concert and he started to cry.

After receiving much acclaim for his titanium building in bilbao however he was urged to change the stone to metal. The idea was to create a reference point for music art and architecture which position the city of los angeles in the cultural level. The walt disney hall is my favorite building in los angeles. In july gehry and his friend randolph sherman an amateur pilot were flying over.

Sketches of frank gehry shows gehry s concern for the people who live and work in his buildings and how his buildings function as spaces for people. Built by frank gehry in los angeles united states with date 2003. Frank gehry had never seen walt disney concert hall from this perspective before so intimately from above. His preliminary design of the disney concert hall actually predates his famous guggenheim museum in bilbao spain but fund raising and other problems stalled the disney project for some 10 years.