Boyle Heights new community police station is a powerful statement of the LAPD's intention to create 'an open, community serving police force'. The architect has carefully considered the community’s distinct tradition of artistic expression.
The LAPD's forward-thinking philosophy is expressed in three rectangular 2-story 'volumes'. A 54,000 sq ft. main building, 7,000 sq ft vehicle maintenance facility, and 115,000 sq ft parking structure are the station's components.
A 'staccato rhythm of rectangular windows and insets', highlights the facade, set against an open, public plaza, creating a welcoming public entrance. The façade allows light and diffused views into the lobby by day, and is transformed into a glowing beacon at night. The station achieves a high LEED® certification.
The facility is located at 2111 E. First Street in Boyle Heights.
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The face of Culver City dramatically changed with the arrival of Eric Owen Moss in the late 1980s. The architect has enlivened the cityscape by renovating old buildings with avant-garde architecture in a derelict warehouse district and in the process, transformed a formerly urban wasteland into high tech art and enterprise. Located at 8520 National Boulevard.
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Designed by Wolf D. Prix and the Austrian firm Coop Himmelb(l)au, Central High School #9 has given downtown Los Angeles an unorthodox new symbol and striking piece of architecture complimenting the downtown skyline..Three curving structures- a cone-shaped library, a soaring lobby and a 140-foot tower- are its most interesting architectural elements.
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The overall architectural scheme at Cal Tech has never made much of an impresson on me; many of the early Italian-Mediterranean style structures have a bleakness about them; as if constrained by a tight budget. To make matters worse, much of the post WWII modernist buildings have done little to compliment the old.
Reading (Los Angeles Times architecture critic) Christopher Hawthorne's review (dated February 16, 2009) of Architect Thom Mayne's new Cahill Center, I confess, gave me a thrill. Mayne's boldly 'fractured mass' is arresting and thought-provoking.
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Walt Disney Picture's Feature Animation Studios. Located on the campus of Disney's Burbank studio lot. The arching wedge is the building’s façade facing the Ventura Freeway; its shape a reference to the passing commuter traffic. A cone-shaped tower, an inspiration from the Sorcerer’s Apprentice, forms a part of the complex. The language of the design embraces the original concept of Kem Weber's original Animation Building (1939) now used for offices on the studio lot.
Robert A.M. Stern Architects has an impressive list of completed projects including the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts; Ohrstrom Library, St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire; the Brooklyn Law School Tower, Brooklyn, New York; the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia; Bloomberg Center at the Harvard Business School; the Jones Graduate School of Business Management at Rice University; the Greenspun College of Urban Affairs at the University of Nevada; U.S. Courthouses in Beckley, West Virginia, Youngstown, Ohio, and Richmond, Virginia; the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, Houston, Texas; and the Museum Center at the Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut, among others.
The property can be easily seen from the Ventura Freeway, west of Forest Lawn Drive. For a closer look follow West Riverside Drive, east of Buena Vista Street, turn right on South Reese Place and right again on South Beachwood Drive. There are riding trails to your immediate right; if you turn back around to your right, you can follow the trails right up to the curving facade.
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