Colburn Expansion Press Room

A New Home For Music and Dance in the Heart of Los Angeles

Colburn’s Expansion Will Create the Largest Concentration of Frank Gehry-Designed Buildings in the World

Construction is underway on Colburn’s transformational 100,000-square-foot expansion designed by Frank Gehry, adjacent to the current campus in Downtown Los Angeles. Opening in Fall 2027, the expansion will dramatically increase Colburn’s world-class training and performance facilities for music and dance. It will also provide much-needed performance space in a mid-sized hall for the region’s established and emerging performing arts organizations. When complete, the expansion will create the largest concentration of Gehry-designed buildings in the world.

The building will include:

• Terri and Jerry Kohl Hall, a 1,000-seat concert hall featuring an in-the-round design, natural light, a floating balcony, and acoustical clouds hovering over the stage. 
• The Dance Center, a new home for the Trudl Zipper Dance Institute, which includes four professional-sized studios, a 100-seat studio theater, and administrative and support spaces for dance.
• Garden spaces at the ground level at 2nd and Hill Street and on the roof atop the Dance Center’s studio theater.

Press Materials

• Architectural Fact Sheet
• Quote Sheet
• Project Leadership
• About Colburn

Opening Date Announcement: October 6, 2026

• Colburn’s Frank Gehry-Designed Expansion, Los Angeles’s New Home for Education and Performance, to Open September 25, 2027

Concrete Topping Out: September 30, 2025

• Colburn School and McCarthy Building Cos., Inc. Reach Concrete Topping-Out Milestone of Frank Gehry-Designed Campus Expansion, Marking Halfway Point of Construction

Steel Topping Out: July 25, 2025

• Colburn School and McCarthy Building Companies Celebrate Topping-Out Milestone of Frank Gehry-Designed Campus Expansion

Groundbreaking Ceremony: April 5, 2024

• Event Recap
• Press Release

Photo Requests

• Construction Photos
• Colburn Renderings

For high-resolution images for editorial use, please contact Lisa Bellamore (lbellamore@gmail.com) or Jennifer Kallend (jkallend@colburnschool.edu)

MEDIA CONTACTS 

Crescent Communications
Lisa Bellamore
323-500-3071 / lbellamore@gmail.com  

Colburn School 
Jennifer Kallend
215-622-6195 / jkallend@colburnschool.edu