Frank Gehry

Disney on Ice: Frank Gehry and Rodarte Design Don Giovanni

Could This License Plate Save California's Arts Funding Crisis?

You've likely noticed this sun setting behind an iconic row of palms as it darted in front of you on the 405. But unless you've got one of these specialty plates screwed on your own Prius, it's unlikely you knew that it supports the state's art funding. "I had lived in California my whole life, and ... More >>

Flying Fugly: Museum of Flying at the Santa Monica Airport

Between Frank Gehry's house, the Bergamot Station complex and countless other condo developments, parking structures and strip malls around Santa Monica, the city could stand to implement a 10-year ban on corrugated metal-clad buildings.

Frank Gehry's Grammy Awards Poster: A Transparent Attempt at High-Brow Legitimacy? Not So Fast

​Last week saw the release of the official poster for the 54th Grammy Awards, which was designed by the patron saint of L.A. architecture, Frank Gehry. At first, the poster seems to be another flailing attempt by the Grammys to maintain their relevance in a world where the value of music, and ... More >>

340 N. Western Avenue in Koreatown: The Postmodern KFC

The The Postmodern KFC at 340 N. Western Avenue in Koreatown. Get it? It's a chicken and a bucket!

If Bon Appétit's New BA Kitchen Isn't Exactly A Test Kitchen, What Is It?

Patrick McMullanQuestlove's Fried Chicken At the BA Kitchen Launch Party​Bon Appétit magazine announced this week the opening of "BA Kitchen" in New York City. The space is "a modern cooking and entertaining space," according to a press release, located across from the Frank Gehry café in th ... More >>

Three Houses That Would be Modern Masterpieces (But Aren't)

Michael HernandezYou will be assimilated: the Borg ship lands in L.A.​ Despite what Dwell Magazine says, you don't have to be rich and live on the Westside to have a forward-thinking modern house. So take note you students of SCI-Arc, you patrons of Pomona School of Architecture: these three S ... More >>

Frank Gehry Insists He Didn't Design L.A. Disney Hall By Crumpling a Piece of Paper

It's perfect.​We thought it was just general, irrefutable knowledge by now that bigtime L.A. architect Frank Gehry designed downtown's Disney Hall by crumpling up a piece of paper and setting the welders to work. But, as Gehry revealed in a CNN interview on Sunday, it turns out that was proba ... More >>

Frank Gehry Calls Eli Broad a 'Control Freak' on National Television

Gehry's Disney Hall.​The star of the 60 Minutes feature on L.A.'s own billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad was ... architect Frank Gehry. Seems like he's the only person in town who had the balls to say what others have uttered off-the-record: That Broad, while infinitely generous, is a pain ... More >>

Top 10 Restaurants in Buildings Designed by Significant Los Angeles Architects

J. RitzThe eastern portion of Morgan, Walls & Clements' Chapman Market on 6th Street.​ We'd love to linger over a classic breakfast combo and endless cups of coffee at John Lautner's 1949 Googie Coffee Shop, since it was the actual place whose name defined a genre. And then enjoy the cannello ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 8/16-8/20

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Also, all of Takosher's food, including the brisket, which is slow-cooked for six to eight hours, must be prepared on the truck rather than in a prep kitchen." Takosher: Nation's First Kosher Truck Dishes Up Brisket & Latke ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 8/9-8/13

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "The residual coffee in the air is worth an aerosolized shot, shot and a half, easy."

When Wine, Food Courts And Frank Gehry Don't Mix: Hall Winery Construction Halted

HallFrank Gehry Hall Winery Prototype​Last week's opening of the redesigned Santa Monica Place, a 1980 design by Frank Gehry that was completely revamped by a Dallas-based architecture firm to feature a rooftop food court, prompted Squid Ink to check in on the completion date of the new Gehry- ... More >>

PUPPET LOVE

HallFrank Gehry Hall Winery Prototype​Last week's opening of the redesigned Santa Monica Place, a 1980 design by Frank Gehry that was completely revamped by a Dallas-based architecture firm to feature a rooftop food court, prompted Squid Ink to check in on the completion date of the new Gehry- ... More >>

FRANK TALK ABOUT MUSIC

HallFrank Gehry Hall Winery Prototype​Last week's opening of the redesigned Santa Monica Place, a 1980 design by Frank Gehry that was completely revamped by a Dallas-based architecture firm to feature a rooftop food court, prompted Squid Ink to check in on the completion date of the new Gehry- ... More >>

PICK THE WEEK FOR SOMEBODY OUT THERE

HallFrank Gehry Hall Winery Prototype​Last week's opening of the redesigned Santa Monica Place, a 1980 design by Frank Gehry that was completely revamped by a Dallas-based architecture firm to feature a rooftop food court, prompted Squid Ink to check in on the completion date of the new Gehry- ... More >>

Las Vegas Grows Up: Architecture Review

HallFrank Gehry Hall Winery Prototype​Last week's opening of the redesigned Santa Monica Place, a 1980 design by Frank Gehry that was completely revamped by a Dallas-based architecture firm to feature a rooftop food court, prompted Squid Ink to check in on the completion date of the new Gehry- ... More >>

Photography Exhibit

HallFrank Gehry Hall Winery Prototype​Last week's opening of the redesigned Santa Monica Place, a 1980 design by Frank Gehry that was completely revamped by a Dallas-based architecture firm to feature a rooftop food court, prompted Squid Ink to check in on the completion date of the new Gehry- ... More >>

Architecture Exhibit

HallFrank Gehry Hall Winery Prototype​Last week's opening of the redesigned Santa Monica Place, a 1980 design by Frank Gehry that was completely revamped by a Dallas-based architecture firm to feature a rooftop food court, prompted Squid Ink to check in on the completion date of the new Gehry- ... More >>

LET'S BE FRANK

HallFrank Gehry Hall Winery Prototype​Last week's opening of the redesigned Santa Monica Place, a 1980 design by Frank Gehry that was completely revamped by a Dallas-based architecture firm to feature a rooftop food court, prompted Squid Ink to check in on the completion date of the new Gehry- ... More >>

Seven John Smiths, a Bob and a Bamford

What to do in L.A., May 29-June 4

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Emptier Than a Hummer Showroom When polling stations closed Tuesday night only 18.59 percent of L.A. County's eligible voters had "filled" them. At stake were critical state ballot measures and the City Attorney's race. Turnout was higher in the San Gabriel Valley's 32nd District Congressional race. ... More >>

Tim Russert's Wake; Art Center's Motives; Marc Cooper's "Borders"

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Live from Seattle: A bunch of geeks talking about music

This fellow is thinking about newsreels, protests, charidee and shock absorption in popular music. "How does music resist, negate, struggle? Can pop intensify vital confrontations, as well as transform and conceal them? What happens when people are angry and silly love songs aren't enough?" ... More >>

Arnold and Edward, and Their Morning at Disney Hall

Life without basketball

Look Homeward, Angeleno

Glimpses of a well-lived life

Eli Broad's Grand Illusion

While real L.A. goes begging, City Hall pours millions into a plastic promenade

Film Reviews

Including this week's pick, Sketches of Frank Gehry

Nightranger

Including this week's pick, Sketches of Frank Gehry

Why I Miss Frank Gehry’s Balls

Including this week's pick, Sketches of Frank Gehry

Dulling Disney

Sandblasting is all part of becoming an L.A. icon

The Voting Booth As Political Statement

Sandblasting is all part of becoming an L.A. icon

Richard Strauss and His “Pretty Hybrid”

Sandblasting is all part of becoming an L.A. icon

Office Space

Sandblasting is all part of becoming an L.A. icon

Spatial Non-Delivery

Sandblasting is all part of becoming an L.A. icon

Al Fresco

The new old Hollywood Bowl

Bunkum Hill

Over the past 50 years, the city has tried repeatedly to turn Grand Avenue into the living, breathing heart of downtown, and has failed miserably. Now, a public-private group led by Eli Broad is trying again — with the emphasis on private

Don’t Look Back

Mike Kelley’s Proposal

Experiencing Disney Hall

Mike Kelley’s Proposal

Organomics

Frank Gehry, Manuel Rosales and Caspar von Glatter-Götz pull out the stops

Ring of Fans

Frank Gehry, Manuel Rosales and Caspar von Glatter-Götz pull out the stops

Progress Report: Gehry in Bloom

Frank Gehry, Manuel Rosales and Caspar von Glatter-Götz pull out the stops

The Site and the Sound

Frank Gehry, Manuel Rosales and Caspar von Glatter-Götz pull out the stops

Urbanities: Frank O. Gehry Has a Gripe

Frank Gehry, Manuel Rosales and Caspar von Glatter-Götz pull out the stops

Home School

Frank Gehry, Manuel Rosales and Caspar von Glatter-Götz pull out the stops

Artitecture

Building as installation: London’s Tate Modern

A Complex Edifice

Building as installation: London’s Tate Modern

The Nice New Norton Simon

And a lament for the old

Neo-Arcadia

Faux-natural wonders

1981 Timeline

Faux-natural wonders