Swiss architect Peter Zumthor’s controversial design for LACMA has turned into Los Angeles’ most serious cultural issue in the last decade, writes commentator Joseph Giovannini.

The architect celebrated his birthday at the Pierre Boulez Hall, where pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim dedicated a concert to him.

A kinder, gentler event celebrates the local while overlooking globalization.

Last Wednesday, just as a thousand people left the prayer service for Zaha Hadid at London’s Grand Mosque, it started to rain—appropriately enough at a dramatic diagonal—and not long after, as her family and friends motored in a caravan of buses to a cemetery in Surrey, the clouds parted and a double rainbow appeared.