GOOD VIBRATIONS.(Walt Disney Concert Hall)

Frank Gehry is one of the most famous architects in the world, and the Walt Disney Concert Hall is the most important thing he has built in his home city of Los Angeles--or anywhere else in the United States, for that matter--so of course people are complaining about it. It looks like Gehry's other buildings. It's too showy. It doesn't contribute enough to the downtown L.A. environment and doesn't justify the $274 million (much of it from private funds) that it cost. These are inevitable, although probably not very significant, views. The building, which opens on October 23rd with a concert by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, has already received the kind of adulatory advance ...