Commentary: A first look at Frank Gehry's Colburn School concert halls and plaza, which are key to making Grand Avenue in DTLA the nation’s premier arts district.
designed by Frank Gehry begins to take towering, and possibly transformative, shape across the street from his Walt Disney Concert Hall, crucial missing pieces of that transformation are suddenly noticeable: two concert halls and a public plaza by Gehry that are keys to making Grand Avenue an arts arena like none other in America.
With fundraising for the Colburn School project stalled however, Gehry released to The Times images of his concert hall models for the first time. As the architect’s design demonstrates, the two halls could well make or break the promise of the $1-billion Grand. Its developer, Related Cos., is providing restaurants, shops, movie theaters, a hotel and an apartment tower. Closely relating the proposed Colburn halls to the Grand bestows on Related a heart and soul.
In the current rendition, the Colburn structure abuts the rear of the Grand on what is now a parking lot at Olive and Second streets. Gehry’s plan calls for a glass-enclosed, 1,100-seat concert hall on one end, plus a boxy 700-seat theater for dance, chamber opera and experimental performance work. A founders room and roof terrace could further serve as a facility for late-night cabaret and edgy work. A glassy lobby brings all the audiences together.
The smaller hall features a steep rake and stage with a small pit. Los Angeles Opera Music Director James Conlon and L.A. Dance Project founder Benjamin Millepied see this as a vital facility for their organizations and for collaborations with Colburn. It could just as importantly welcome dance and musical theater created in L.A.'s diverse communities.
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