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Redevelopment plans for L.A.'s Pershing Square shift

2019-06-25T12:13:00-04:00

Plans for the much-touted Pershing Square Renew project in Los Angeles appear to be shifting.

Curbed reports that three years after being selected as the winning entry for an international competition to redesign the five-acre postmodern urban park, a team led by French landscape architects Agence Ter has shifted gears. Pershing Square is the oldest park in Los Angeles and its latest iteration was designed in 1996 by Mexican architect Ricardo Legorreta. The team's winning "radical flatness"-focused proposal has instead given way to a phased approach that will focus demolishing an existing concessions stand at the park in order to replace the structure with a new set of elevators serving the below-ground parking garage located beneath the park.

Pershing Square's latest iteration was designed in 1994 by Ricardo Legorreta. Image courtesy of Wikimedia user jjron.

The remaining plans involve other small fixes that focus on “taking down as many barriers as we can,” Debra Girod, a partner...

Ricardo Legorreta house on Jeju to be demolished

2012-09-27T17:27:00-04:00

The Jeju City Council, Korean Institutes of Architects, Jeju People’s Artists Federation and other cultural organizations has argued that even if it is legally justified to take down this work, it would be a violent act that destroys an outstanding piece of art.

Editor's Picks #244

2012-01-02T11:28:03-05:00

Anthony Stephens offered up his euology for Ricardo Legorreta. "Ricardo Legorreta is the reason I began to study architecture...The spaces he designed had something long gone from most architects, soul. Unlike so many of the steel, glass and white wall designs that seem so clever and popular nowadays, his buildings could convey a feeling to those that laid eyes on the spaces he designed."

In Top 10 Design Initiatives to Watch in 2012—for the public good, John Cary, offered up a "a simple meditation on initiatives poised to advance the field, and how they can be scaled up, refined, tweaked, borrowed, and leveraged."

While in the latest edition of the Contours feature The Year’s End: The Political, Economic, and Social Perspective, Sherin Wing contends "that’s what all those 'Best of' lists are about. They are designed to soothe us". After reviewing the various social, economic and political turmoils of 2011 Sherin concludes, "if there is one lesson we can learn from all of these movements, it is that architects must all engage in the movements and processes that are meaningful them. They must be thoughtful about them. And become involved directly. Because this is the time of true change."

While Orhan Ayyüce, starts a new feature NEXT SERIES: RADAR LOVE in which he is tell us what he is interested in currently. He writes that while various discussions regarding in...

Mexican architect Ricardo Legorreta, disciple of Luis Barragan, dies at 80

2011-12-31T01:52:02-05:00

Legorreta continued the tradition of architect Luis Barragan, who died in 1988. Like Barragan, Legorreta used bright colors, massive solid walls, courtyards and geometric cutout windows to interact with Mexico’s abundant sunlight.

Ricardo Legorreta Honored with 2011 Praemium Imperiale Prize

2011-07-11T14:50:41-04:00

Today, the names of the new Praemium Imperiale Laureates were announced in London, Berlin, Paris, Rome, New York and Tokyo. The 5 recipients in their respective fields are Ricardo Legorreta (Architecture, Mexico), Anish Kapoor (Sculpture, UK), Bill Viola (Painting, USA), Seiji Ozawa (Music, Japan), and Judi Dench (Theater/Film, UK).