the modernist's guide to iconic wilshire boulevard - CicLAvia
the modernist's guide to iconic wilshire boulevard - CicLAvia
the modernist's guide to iconic wilshire boulevard - CicLAvia
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24 Wilshire Park<br />
Place-Beneficial Plaza/<br />
Radio Korea Building<br />
Gordon Bunshaft and E. Charles Bassett for<br />
Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill, 1967<br />
3700 Wilshire Blvd.<br />
The front plaza’s block-long and acre-wide lawn (with<br />
a grove of Canary Island pines in <strong>the</strong> center) was<br />
intended <strong>to</strong> enhance <strong>the</strong> city’s green civic space in<br />
an era of suburbanization. It hosts scores of Sunday<br />
skateboarders drawn <strong>to</strong> its concrete ramps.<br />
25 Ahmanson Center/<br />
Wilshire Colonnade<br />
Edward Durell S<strong>to</strong>ne, 1967<br />
3701 Wilshire Blvd.<br />
A modernist interpretation of a classical marble<br />
colonnade flanking a public place and punctuated<br />
with orbed light fixtures. It is home <strong>to</strong>day <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />
nation’s largest Korean American bank.<br />
25. AHMANSON CENTER/WILSHIRE COLONADE<br />
Interior courtyard light fixture<br />
Courtesy of Los Angeles Public Library Pho<strong>to</strong> Collection.
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