Walt Disney Concert Hall Architecture Review

None has lived up to such expectations so gracefully.

Walt disney concert hall architecture review. In architect frank gehry s original design walt disney concert hall was intended to be clad in stone. Disney hall has at least a dual personality and moods enough to spare. Inside the light shifts to gold. Few buildings in the history of los angeles have come burdened with greater public expectations than the walt disney concert hall.

Note that you must have purchased a p. Introduction the walt disney concert hall designed by the architect frank gehry opened in 2003 after many years of gestation. Gehry aimed to do something similar but for cultural rather than political reasons. Interview by mark swed.

The history of the building began in 1987 when lillian walt disney widow of businessman donates 50 million to start building a philharmonic hall. 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. Disney hall offers what s been called the best concert hall acoustics in the nation maybe the world. 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.

The idea was to create a reference point for music. As architecture critic blair kamin wrote in the chicago tribune it was easy for the completed disney to be perceived as bilbao. Architect frank gehry discusses the creation of walt disney concert hall. 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.

Amazing frank gehry architecture and superb crystalline sound in the concert hall for los angeles outstanding philharmonic orchestra marking its 100th year. On the outside it is a moon palace a buoyant composition of silvery reflected light.