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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
 Now I'm curious above that proposed glassy structure next to the temple. |
I think that "proposed glassy structure" may be the new Rem Koolhaas-designed events center.
There's lots of info on the net:
New York Times
la.curbed
...many more via Google.
No images yet that I could find.
Interesting 2012 article on the background of the overall master plan for the Wilshire Boulevard Temple campus:
"They considered selling the [Wilshire Boulevard Temple] property, a concept [Senior Rabbi] Leder said he couldn’t stand for. “It would have become a Korean church,” he said. So to make the picture real, he’d take potential funders out around the immediate neighborhood to illustrate his point.
“We’d go to Fourth [Street] and New Hampshire [Avenue], and we’d get out across the street from a beautiful old synagogue that was Sinai Temple, and there’s a gigantic cross on the front of it, just above the Ten Commandments in Hebrew, and I’d just look at people, and I’d say: ‘That’s the other alternative; it’s very disturbing.’ ”