REDCAT
- Architect
- Frank Gehry
- Year
- 2003
- Style
- Contemporary Modern
- City
- Los Angeles, CA
REDCAT, short for Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater, opened in November 2003 inside the Walt Disney Concert Hall complex as downtown Los Angeles's outpost of the California Institute of the Arts. Roy E. Disney, son of Roy O. and Edna Disney, saw the opportunity while the Concert Hall was under construction starting in 1992, and asked Frank Gehry, the Hall's architect, to design it; Gehry's own children had graduated from CalArts. The Walt Disney Company and Los Angeles County funded the project, and Patty and Roy E. Disney personally matched the company's gift, naming the center for his parents.
the building
The facility. REDCAT packs a 3,000-square-foot gallery, a flexible black box theater seating 200 to 270, and a lounge/cafe/bar into the Disney Hall complex, supporting CalArts programs in visual arts, performance, film and video, music, and public conversations.
the style
Contemporary Modern (c. 1990–present): Today's default architecture: floor-to-ceiling glass, crisp panel facades, bold cantilevers, and mixed materials.
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Frank Gehry, who designed the adjoining Walt Disney Concert Hall, took on REDCAT partly out of a personal connection: his children had graduated from CalArts, the school the theater was built to serve.
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nearby
- Walt Disney Concert Hall
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
- Los Angeles Department of Water and Power General Office (John Ferraro) Building
- Million Dollar Theater Building
- The CalEdison
- Bradbury Building