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Disney Concert Hall has Frank Gehry Frank Owen Gehry, CC (born Ephraim Owen Goldberg, February 28, 1929) is a Pritzker Prize winning architect based in Los Angeles, California.

His buildings, including his private residence, have become tourist attractions.
, LACMA LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art
LACMA Los Angeles County Medical Association
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 recently nabbed Rem Koolhaas, but not to be left out is the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center in Little Tokyo, which has signed Japanese architect Toyo Ito for its upcoming renovation and expansion.

"The primary purpose was to create a dwelling that would be comparable to the other construction going on," said JACCC JACCC Japanese American Cultural and Community Center
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JACCC Joint Air Control and Coordination Center
 Chairman Thomas Iino. "But more importantly, we wanted a design that would enhance our operations and integrate the entire campus."

The $15 million renovation will include a 24,000 square foot expansion, and is scheduled for completion for the center's 25th anniversary in 2005.

Ito is best known for Tokyo's Tower of the Winds and the Sendai Mediatheque in Sendai, Japan. He, along with Koolhaas, also participated in the new Museum of Modem Art design competition in New York New York, state, United States
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 in 1997.
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Title Annotation:Japanese American Cultural and Community Center to use Japanise architect Toyo Ito for project
Comment:Close to home. (Real Estate).(Japanese American Cultural and Community Center to use Japanise architect Toyo Ito for project)
Author:King, Danny
Publication:Los Angeles Business Journal
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Date:Jan 7, 2002
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