The Los Angeles River as it runs along side of the city of Vernon. Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times

According to reports, Gehry started to work for the Los Angeles River to develop new masterplan. In addition, the involvement of Gehry seems that it will be a potential turning point  to redesign the river and its concrete-lined banks. However,  his plan is getting a cold reception from some of the activists who helped draw attention to the cause.

Architect Frank Gehry is working with city officials to draft a new master plan for the redevelopment of the Los Angeles River, bringing the avant-garde sensibilities of one of the world's best-known artistic celebrities to the struggle to remake 51 miles of the Los Angeles Basin's largely desolate central waterway.

Gehry's designs for the flaring steel walls of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles have become icons of contemporary architecture. Since last year, he has been quietly at work on what officials describe as the beginnings of an overarching plan for the bridges, bike paths, walkways and other improvements intended to revive public use of the river as it winds from the San Fernando Valley to Long Beach........Continue Reading

> via latimes.com