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Location: Los Angeles, California, USA

Date: 1999–2003

Architect: Frank Gehry

Purpose: Concert Hall

Rating: (106 votes, average: 3.80 out of 5)

More info: Walt Disney Concert Hall seats 2,265 people and serves (among other purposes) as the home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra and the Los Angeles Master Chorale.

Interesting fact: The Hall was spoofed in The Simpsons episode “The Seven-Beer Snitch”; Gehry voiced himself in the episode where the town of Springfield had him design a new Concert Hall for the town. The Concert Hall was then transformed into a jail by Mr. Burns. The character Snake eventually escapes from the prison while saying, “No Frank Gehry-designed prison can hold me!”

Image credits (1: wikipedia, 2: Mubina H)

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