The centerpiece of Millennium Park is the new Gehry-designed Jay Pritzker Pavilion, which will serve as the new 11,000-seat home to Chicago’s Grant Park Orchestra. “Even in a city renowned for its big moves, Gehry’s project makes for an extraordinary structural drama. And the stage on which that drama occurs — a new 24.5-acre park at the foot of the downtown skyline — plays perfectly to the architect’s strengths, allowing his explosively sculptural forms all the room they need to preen, as they were not free to do in his dazzling, but more tightly confined, Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles.”