Larry Herbst photo of Maneo's Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels
Benjamin Forgey in the Washington Post notes two new "sharply contrasting architectural visions" in the City of Angels:
It is a rare architectural contrast. On Grand Avenue in Los Angeles stands Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall, whose long, difficult gestation ended triumphantly in October. Just a long block away stands the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, completed last year and designed by Spain's Jose Rafael Moneo (with Leo A. Daly Architects) . . . Outside and inside, the buildings could hardly be more different -- Gehry's rounded exuberance playing against Moneo's angular sobriety. Yet the two are equally impassioned and convincingly monumental.
And speaking of the concert hall on Grand Avenue, photographer Gil Garcetti's new "limited collector edition," Frozen Art, promises to put Gehry's masterpiece in a good light.
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