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Academy picks Renzo Piano, L.A.'s Zoltan Pali for movie museum
Architecture CriticLast year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced it was abandoning a pricey plan to build a movie museum in central Hollywood designed by French architect Christian de Portzamparc. Instead the academy struck a deal with the Los Angeles...Tags: Movies, Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman, Museums, Artists
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Star architects unveil wild plans for Union Station circa 2050
Architecture CriticArchitects from some of the most prominent firms in the world -- including Renzo Piano and UN Studio's Ben Van Berkel -- joined a long list of well-known local designers Wednesday in presenting hugely ambitious if largely fanciful plans for expanding Los...Tags: Railway Transportation, Antonio Villaraigosa, Architecture, Travel, Metropolitan Transportation Authority
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Critic's Notebook: Metro douses expectations on Union Station project
Talk about raining on your own parade. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority coaxed Renzo Piano from Paris, Ban van Berkel from Amsterdam and a bunch of talented local architects from the far Westside and brought them together Wednesday afternoon...
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New York City's spots for book lovers
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterOn the third floor of a big, gray building at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, silver-haired docent Julie Chelminski recently stepped up to the middle of a hushed room and faced 15 spellbound tourists. "On the walls of this room there were 9,000 drawers,"...Tags: West Village, A.A. Milne, Mark Twain, Ceremonies, Charles Dickens
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Reading L.A.: The giant, complex legacy of the Case Study program
Culture MonsterChristopher Hawthorne on Reading L.A.: The giant, complex legacy of the Case Study program.... -
Monster Mash: Artworks go home; 'Book of Mormon' creators chat
Culture MonsterTrey Parker, Matt Stone sat down with "60 Minutes" to talk about "The Book of Mormon" and "South Park." Actress Jennifer Aniston purchased a Glenn Ligon painting worth an estimated $450,000 at a recent Haiti benefit auction.... -
Ranking the best public L.A. architecture of the decade
Culture MonsterIf the new West Hollywood Library is among the finest public projects to hit Southern California in a decade, what else belongs on that list? Contenders include work by Frederick Fisher, Michael Maltzan and Daly Genik, among others.... -
Review: 'California Design 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way' at LACMA
Culture MonsterThe first object you see in “California Design 1930-1965: ‘Living in a Modern Way,’” which opens Saturday at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, is an impossibly shiny aluminum Airstream trailer from 1936. Think of it as an... -
New museums to marvel over in Amsterdam, Rome and Paris
Special to the Los Angeles TimesIn a wide-ranging trip to Europe this year, I found three major new museums to love: in Amsterdam, the first satellite branch of Russia's celebrated Hermitage; in Rome, a long-awaited museum for contemporary arts that is a work of art itself; and in...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Restaurants, Multi-Sport Events, Architecture, Christianity
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At Wright design auction, the bright spot is lighting
L.A. at HomeWright auction: Lighting proved to be the star of the Chicago auction house Wright's sale on Oct. 6, as lamps by Angelo Lelli Greta Magnusson Grossman spurred bidding wars and resulted in eye-popping prices.... -
L.A.'s new restaurants serve up a great year
Los Angeles Times restaurant criticEach year I keep a running log to track restaurants slated to open each month. When this January rolled around and I started my new list, I fully expected the pace of openings to slow to a trickle. That hasn't happened. Instead, despite the curdled...Tags: Michael Voltaggio, Dining and Drinking, Hamburgers, Morningstar Incorporated, Restaurants
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Critic's Notebook: Shifting horizons in Santa Monica parks design
Standing atop a patch of churned-up dirt on a recent morning, James Corner was surrounded by mismatched palm trees, chipped sidewalks and sagging chain link: a typical slice of Southern California landscape caught unawares, hardly ready for its close-up....Tags: Education, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Architecture, Staten Island (New York City), Transportation
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