Walt Disney Concert Hall Architecture Review
None has lived up to such expectations so gracefully.
Walt disney concert hall architecture review. Interview by mark swed. Read all 3 036 reviews amazing frank gehry architecture and superb crystalline sound in the concert hall for los angeles outstanding philharmonic orchestra marking its 100th year. Read all 3 036 reviews la phil under gustavo dudamel is one of the greatest orchestras of the world and disney hall is an ideal place for their magical performances. In architect frank gehry s original design walt disney concert hall was intended to be clad in stone.
Architect frank gehry discusses the creation of walt disney concert hall. Few buildings in the history of los angeles have come burdened with greater public expectations than the walt disney concert hall. The idea was to create a reference point for music. Introduction the walt disney concert hall designed by the architect frank gehry opened in 2003 after many years of gestation.
With this new material gehry was able to tweak the shape of the exterior creating the iconic silver sails we see today. Inside the light shifts to gold. Note that you must have purchased a p. As architecture critic blair kamin wrote in the chicago tribune it was easy for the completed disney to be perceived as bilbao.
Downtown los angeles offers a lot of beautiful pieces of design and architecture and the best is the walt disney concert hall g o inside if you get chance and on the outside watch the sun bounce of the outside curves. After receiving much acclaim for his titanium building in bilbao however he was urged to change the stone to metal. While the concert hall was suffering delays gehry s guggenheim museum in bilbao which was designed about the same time was completed in 1997 six years before disney. On the outside it is a moon palace a buoyant composition of silvery reflected light.
Amazing frank gehry architecture and superb crystalline sound in the concert hall for los angeles outstanding philharmonic orchestra marking its 100th year. Disney hall offers what s been called the best concert hall acoustics in the nation maybe the world.