Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/los-angeles-city-of-contrasts Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript Anne Taylor Fleming shares an essay about changing downtown Los Angeles. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. ANNE TAYLOR FLEMING, NewsHour Essayist: It is, and has been since it opened in 2003, the most famous building in Los Angeles: a curvy, seductive siren call to us natives to come on downtown and partake of its luminous gifts, inside and out.I'm talking, of course, about Frank Gehry's shimmery-skinned, acoustically sophisticated Disney Hall, complete with a world-class orchestra and a movie-star-handsome young conductor.