Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 9: Walt Disney Concert Hall
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Preferred Title:
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Walt Disney Concert Hall
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Image View:
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Aerial context view, looking north from the top of the LA City Hall
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Creator:
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Frank Owen Gehry (American architect, born 1929)
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Location:
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site: Los Angeles, California, United States
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Location Note:
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111 South Grand Avenue
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GPS:
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+34.055371-118.249862
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Date:
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1999?2003 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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American
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Style Period:
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Postmodern; Twenty-first century
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Work Type 1:
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concert hall
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Work Type 2:
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auditorium
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Classification:
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architecture
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Material:
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stainless steel; steel; glass
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Technique:
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construction (assembling)
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Inscription:
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WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL
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Subjects:
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architectural exteriors; contemporary (1960 to present); music; Performing arts; aerial views; exterior; parking garage
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Description:
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Bounded by Hope Street, Grand Avenue, 1st and 2nd Streets, it seats 2,265 people and serves (among other purposes) as the home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra and the Los Angeles Master Chorale. While the architecture (as with other Gehry works) evoked polarized opinions, the acoustics of the concert hall (designed by Yasuhisa Toyota) were widely praised in contrast to its predecessor, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. After complaints from neighboring buildings and residents about the sun glare from the stainless steel panels, the owners asked Gehry Partners to come up with a solution. Their response was a computer analysis of the building's surfaces identifying the offending panels. In 2005 these were dulled by lightly sanding the panels to eliminate unwanted glare. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
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Collection:
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Archivision Addition Module Four
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Identifier:
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1A1-GF-DCH-1-A1
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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