Walt Disney Concert Hall

Walt Disney Concert Hall

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Location	111 South Grand Avenue Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Coordinates	34°03′19″N 118°15′00″W / 34.05528°N 118.25000°W / 34.05528; -118.25000
Public transit	Civic Ctr     Grand Av
Owner	Los Angeles Music Center
Type	Concert hall
Seating type	Reserved
Capacity	2,265
Construction
Built	1999–2003
Opened	October 23, 2003; 20 years ago (2003-10-23)
Construction cost	$130 million (plus $110 million for parking garage)
Architect	Frank Gehry
Structural engineer	Cosentini Associates
Tenants
Los Angeles Philharmonic Los Angeles Master Chorale
Website
Venue website

The Walt Disney Concert Hall at 111 South Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles, California, is the fourth hall of the Los Angeles Music Center and was designed by Frank Gehry. It was opened on October 23, 2003. Bounded by Hope Street, Grand Avenue, and 1st and 2nd Streets, 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 a compromise between a vineyard-style seating configuration, like the Berliner Philharmonie by Hans Scharoun,^[1] and a classical shoebox design like the Vienna Musikverein or the Boston Symphony Hall.^[2]

Lillian Disney made an initial gift of $50 million in 1987 to build a performance venue as a gift to the people of Los Angeles and a tribute to Walt Disney's devotion to the arts and to the city. Both Gehry's architecture and the acoustics of the concert hall, designed by Minoru Nagata,^[3] the final completion supervised by Nagata's assistant and protege Yasuhisa Toyota,^[4] have been praised, in contrast to its predecessor, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.^[5]