Rendering of the Colburn Center at the Colburn School in downtown Los Angeles, courtesy of Frank O. Gehry and Gehry Partners.
In Tuesday’s (2/20) Los Angeles Times, Roger Vincent writes, “Preliminary work has begun on a $335-million expansion of the Colburn School of performing arts designed by [Frank] Gehry that includes a mid-size concert hall he expects to be in near-constant use for events put on by students, professional artists and academics…. The long-planned Colburn School addition will be the third Gehry-designed building on Bunker Hill, which already has Disney Concert Hall and the Grand LA, a $1-billion apartment, hotel and retail complex … The new Colburn structure is under construction on a former parking lot, cater-cornered to the current campus … Colburn Center, the new building, represents a significant leap for the Colburn School, which … has around 2,000 students…. The centerpiece of the expansion will be a 1,000-seat concert hall … with an in-the-round design meant to create intimacy between the performers and the audience…. The Colburn Center will also more than double facilities for the school’s Trudl Zipper Dance Institute …The center will include a rooftop garden large enough to host receptions and outdoor performances, as well as a ground-level garden with a performance space that will be open to the public.”
