Home to the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and the Los Angeles Master Chorale, the Walt Disney Concert Hall sits on top of a small hill, overlooking downtown Los Angeles.

Designed by Frank Gehry 1991, the building was funded through Lilian Disney, the Disney Company and private donors.

Finished and opened to the Public in 2003, the acoustics of the concert hall, designed by Minoru Nagata, at the time where praised as some of the best in the world.

The building itself is quite the fantastic Ghery-experience. The giant sloping curves of its intersecting volumes where originally planned to be clad in stone, intended to gently glow with evening and morning light. The metal, which the client decided on instead, has a sharper, harder quality and almost absorbs the light at night, while the reflection at noon are blindingly bright.

The building feels like something out of a child’s dream, an ever changing alice-in-wonderland imagined architecture, quite in contrast to its immediate present context of towering skyscapers and buildings from the late 1960ies.