The Walt Disney Concert Hall by goodoleboy
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Inadvertently captured back on 11/4/07, after participating in an Alzheimer's Disease walkathon. I just happened to snap this shot as I headed back to my automobile, sitting in the Concert Hall's parking garage on that early Sunday morning. On reflection, I think I should have also taken a more frontal pic. Anyway, the die has been cast.
The Walt Disney Concert Hall at 111 South Grand Avenue in Downtown of Los Angeles, California, is the fourth hall of the Los Angeles Music Center and was designed by Frank Gehry. It opened on October 24, 2003. 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. The hall is in a vineyard seating configuration, similar to the Berliner Philharmonie by Hans Scharoun.
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Comments (4)
MrsRatbag
What a fascinating building! It looks a lot like the Experience Music Project here in Seattle, designed by Frank Gehry; I wonder if he was the architect here too? And I think this is a great POV, it really shows those fabulous shapes. Great capture, Harry! (and I think you accidentally got this posted twice in a row, you might want to delete one of them)
helanker
WOW! It is impressive. Really excellent shot too. :)
npauling
A very impressive building that I wish more people would build like this instead of just glass boxes. A great POV to show us.
anahata.c
This was one of those weird RR messups where you post one pic, but they post it TWICE. I don't know why that happens. (This went up two times, identically.) But that's neither here nor there......Yes, it's by Gehry, as you point out: I think Denise missed that part of your description; but she had the right instinct, as this couldn't be anyone else. With buildings like this, there are many possible shots, so your wish to have captured a more frontal version is natural. But your pov gives a really fine view of how Gehry's structures emerge out of the 'boxes' of a normal city street. They just billow out---which is what you've captured here. And with the sky on the right side, there's balance, where the peak of the building is in the very center of the shot.
But also, your treatment of the light makes this shine and be soft too. The golden undertones of his facade are brought out beautifully too. And a medium amount of people milling about. (And you got several of them looking at you, lol, like "what's THAT guy shooting?" They're smiling too.) A very intuitive capture of a difficult structure, capturing its 'intrusion' into the street, and the way it captures light and shade, and how its undertone glow through. And so nice to see downtown shots from you.
(In case you didn't know, Gehry was born to Russian and Polish Jewish parents, whose names were Goldberg and Kaplanski/father and mother. He changed his name to Gehry---from Goldberg---to avoid anti-semitism. I thought you might be interested where he got such an odd name. He's one of the most unique modern architects, and I adore his work. As does Denise, as evidenced in her gallery...His Hebrew name was originally Ephraim, btw, but he didn't keep it...)