Walt Disney Concert Hall Architecture Review

None has lived up to such expectations so gracefully.

Walt disney concert hall architecture review. After receiving much acclaim for his titanium building in bilbao however he was urged to change the stone to metal. On the outside it is a moon palace a buoyant composition of silvery reflected light. 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. Disney hall offers what s been called the best concert hall acoustics in the nation maybe the world.

Disney hall has at least a dual personality and moods enough to spare. With this new material gehry was able to tweak the shape of the exterior creating the iconic silver sails we see today. Interview by mark swed. Introduction the walt disney concert hall designed by the architect frank gehry opened in 2003 after many years of gestation.

As architecture critic blair kamin wrote in the chicago tribune it was easy for the completed disney to be perceived as bilbao. In architect frank gehry s original design walt disney concert hall was intended to be clad in stone. Note that you must have purchased a p. The idea was to create a reference point for music.

Architect frank gehry discusses the creation of walt disney concert 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. Inside the light shifts to gold. 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 history of the building began in 1987 when lillian walt disney widow of businessman donates 50 million to start building a philharmonic hall. Gehry aimed to do something similar but for cultural rather than political reasons.