Pitt on Gehry’s dream team?

At a symposium in downtown L.A.’s Japan America Theatre last weekend about design and the projected $1.2-billion Grand Avenue development, Frank Gehry packed the stage with celebrated fellow architects, including Zaha Hadid, Harry Cobb and Kevin Daly -- all players on his “dream team” vying for the project. And, as if that wasn’t enough star power, Gehry also brought along Brad Pitt, whom he took time to introduce as a friend to the audience of more than 500. The actor, sans Jennifer, sat in the front row.

Apart from being on Hollywood’s A-list, however, Pitt is well known as an architecture aficionado. He and Aniston reportedly paid $14 million three years ago for a Wallace Neff house in Beverly Hills. The 1934 Normandy-style residence was previously owned by actor Fredric March and, later, philanthropist Wallis Annenberg.

-- Louise Roug