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The Getty Center, in Los Angeles, California, is a campus of the Getty Museum and other programs of the Getty Trust. The $1.3 billion center opened to the public on December 16, 1997, [ 2] and is well known for its architecture, gardens, and views overlooking Los Angeles. The center sits atop a hill connected to a visitors' parking garage at ...
The Aline Barnsdall Hollyhock House in the East Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright originally as a residence for oil heiress Aline Barnsdall (built, 1919–1921). The building is now the centerpiece of the city's Barnsdall Art Park. In July 2019, along with seven other buildings designed by ...
The Los Angeles Aqueduct system, comprising the Los Angeles Aqueduct ( Owens Valley aqueduct) and the Second Los Angeles Aqueduct, is a water conveyance system, built and operated by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. [6] The Owens Valley aqueduct was designed and built by the city's water department, at the time named The Bureau of ...
1. Think of it as part planetarium, part mini-Sphere. Cosm has roots in science and education. The firm owns Spitz Inc., the planetarium endeavor founded in the 1940s by Armand Spitz, a principal ...
Pacific Design Center. The Pacific Design Center, or PDC, is a 1,600,000-square-foot (150,000 m 2) multi-use facility for the design community in West Hollywood, California. One of the buildings is often described as the Blue Whale because of its large size relative to surrounding buildings and its brilliant blue glass cladding.
75000434 [2] Added to NRHP. March 4, 1975. The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is the largest natural and historical museum in the western United States. [3] Its collections include nearly 35 million specimens and artifacts and cover 4.5 billion years of history.
Rancho Los Encinos ( Ranch of Holm Oaks) was established in 1845 when a large parcel of former Mission San Fernando land was granted to three Mission Indians by governor Pio Pico. Many ranchos were created after the secularization of the California missions, which began in 1834. Encino derives its name from the rancho.
Los Feliz ( / loʊs feɪˈliːs /, / lɔːs ˈfiːlɪz /; Spanish for "The Féliz (family)", Spanish pronunciation: [los feˈlis]) [ 2][ 3] is a hillside neighborhood in the greater Hollywood area of Los Angeles, California, [ 4][ 5] abutting Hollywood and encompassing part of the Santa Monica Mountains. The neighborhood is named after the ...