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Originally Posted by malumot
Simply incredible work, Kevin.
And comparing the park THEN with the park NOW (Sebisebster's color photo, further back up the page)......
How I hate artsy-fartsy planner types. That brutal angular tower. The garish purple. The retarded giant orange concrete balls. The predictable "water feature", in this case to invoke the Zanja Madre, of course, but which does nothing more than look like a downspout during a heavy rain.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars were spent on the name-brand, fancy-pants professional designers of this atrociousness.....and came away with an end-product not 1/10th as good as what a handful of amateur town burghers did 120 years ago.
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Pershing Square in 1988, looking north
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Now, a winning model of a proposed re-design of Pershing Square, created by SITE in 1986:
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According to LAPL, the project's name was
Magic Carpet and
design features an undulating concrete canopy covering Pershing Square's underground garage. SITE's Jim Wines presented this scheme as an "iconic grid" emblematic of the pattern of Los Angeles as seen from the air.
Ok.
What if this project would have come into reality? A green carpet, like a grid, covering the park?
I really dont understand modern art either, honestly.