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...right to attend screenings of cartoons in development. "These were big screenings with like 100 people in the room, and he didn't want me there for some convoluted reason," Disney told TIME. "I griped about it, and we had some words." Then, like one of his Uncle Walt's animated boilers, Disney exploded...
Maltzan, a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and the GSD, has returned to the GSD this semester as a visiting design critic. Before beginning his own firm, he worked for architect Frank Gehry as an designer for the winning competition entry for the Los Angeles Walt Disney Concert Hall (although the Hall, which opened in Los Angeles last month, bears little resemblance to the original design). Looking at Maltzan’s work, it is clear that Gehry has had a strong influence on his formal and professional maturation as a designer...
...celebrities gathered in downtown Los Angeles for the October opening of the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Robert Iger was a continent away, on a critical if unglamorous mission. "I was looking for pirated videos in alleyways in China," says Iger, 52, who met with Chinese officials about various projects, including theme parks and the Disney Channel. Iger's willingness to get involved in the most down-and-dirty aspects of the business helps explain why he has ascended to the president's chair at Disney and why he's being groomed by chairman and CEO Michael Eisner to take...
...rapt in the music, oblivious to the complicated physics it takes to project a Beethoven symphony with warmth and clarity. Toyota is the director of Nagata Acoustics, a tiny Tokyo company that has just completed a plum assignment: collaborating with architect Frank Gehry on the long-awaited $274 million Walt Disney Concert Hall, which opened to critical praise in Los Angeles in October...
...Disney Hall was born of a $50 million gift given in 1987 by Walt Disney's widow Lillian. The radically curvy building opened six years late and at more than twice its original $110 million price tag because disagreements over Gehry's unorthodox design, coupled with California's economic woes (the mid-1990s version), slowed construction...