Walt Disney Concert Hall, frisky and buoyant and entirely in the spirit of Los Angeles, is the most successful. Grand Avenue and Grand Park — so new — are waiting for the accretion of Angeleno experiences to gain their own sense of place. But Los Angeles, post-COVID-19, will be shaped by forces neither Broad nor his famous architect anticipated. We need to start, if the future Los Angeles is to mean anything to us. AdvertisementD. J. Waldie is the author, most recently, of “Becoming Los Angeles: Myth, Memory, and A Sense of Place.”

Source: Los Angeles Times May 09, 2021 10:02 UTC