That’s the nickname given to the Game-of-Thones looking pipe organ inside Disney Hall, the concert hall in Los Angeles designed by Frank Gehry.

Here’s a photo of the organ:

This website is a kind of interactive documentary about the building, and both the site and the building are incredible. The site is immersive in a rare style — the best use of the internet I’ve seen this week.

The process they undertook to design and build the concert hall sounds like it would have been both exhausting and amazing:

A one-tenth-scale model was devised to test and confirm the design’s acoustic effects, with no detail spared. Small cloth-wrapped figurines, for example, represented concertgoers whose presence, no doubt, would affect how soundwaves traveled through the hall. The model was pumped full with nitrogen to better mimic atmospheric effects at the reduced scale, and sounds whose frequency had been sped up tenfold were piped in. Acousticians placed sound recorders throughout the model to test how well sound traveled from the stage to various seats, no matter if in the front row or the very back. The results of these tests demonstrated conclusively for the project team that the concert hall design would render it one of the premier spaces for music performance in the world—with no single “best seat” in the house. 

The building itself is iconic in the Gehry way:

Toronto Life had a great interview with Gehry as last year, as his design for a massive condo complex inches its’ way to completion, while getting value-engineered to death.

Luckily we still have the AGO, which is no question my favourite place to hang out in downtown Toronto.