Walt Disney Concert Hall

Project Name: Walt Disney Concert Hall
Construction year: 2003
Website: www.disneyconcerthall.com
Address: 111 South Grand Avenue , LOS ANGELES-CALIFORNIA - United States

Architect(s) : Gehry Frank (www.foga.com)
Project Category: Cultural

Latitude: 34.0556
Longitude: -118.249

Walt Disney Concert Hall

Located on a historically and culturally prominent downtown site, the Walt Disney Concert Hall is to become the permanent home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The Concert Hall is situated on historic Bunker Hill at the intersection of First Street and Grand Avenue, adjacent to the existing Music Center of Los Angeles.

The project

The project began as an invited design competition, during which many of the fundamental design tenets were established. These include an open and accessible main entrance, a sympathetic and inclusive attitude in the building's relationship to the Music Center's existing Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, a pedestrian scale frontage along Grand Avenue, a generous and open backstage area, and a large garden.

Many design elements have evolved since the competition, most notably the Hall's shape, the foyer size, and the consideration and subsequent elimination of a chamber hall and a 350-room hotel.

From Design start in 1987, to Construction start in 1999, to the Inauguration in 2003 it took sixteen years.

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