Frank Gehry, whose firm provided the work free of charge, spelled out his vision for a piece of property that extends nearly two blocks. The two-story structures will fit the neighborhood... offering a scale and a 'body language' that is residential in nature...[The] Children's Institute project is one of several signs that new services and amenities are coming to the neighborhood, which recently commemorated the 50th anniversary of the historic civil unrest that erupted in 1965. — Los Angeles Times
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gehry?
won't someone stop and think of the childre....oh.
never mind.
Only pic I could find.
Watts up with dat?
ba-dum ching!
regular buildings...rotate 45 degrees...genius!
Umm, children+blocks=perfect? I love this. It looks perfect.
Here's another.
Those are two different models, though, so who knows.
This is actually an adorable little article about the project; not only was the design pro bono, Gehry says he's trying to be un-ostentatious about it. I adore him, can't help it.
Los Angeles Magazine
Same model, opposite side.
Nice that it's pro bono. Hope the design isn't too dysfunctional.
I think Gehry is good for a children's center. But it also screams image consultant.
props to FG for doing it pro bono though...
This was largely mainly by his son Sam.
Miles, I do think it's a different model - the little cubes in the "playground" area are colorful in one, monochromatic in the other, and one has lots of wood pergolas. Maybe the color/pergola were later additions to the same model.
same model, the pavillion with the little turrets is on the right of miles' pic, and on the left in yours; colors change with the light, one is behind some glass, taken in different locations
Sorry, no. Same model, with later additions. Bright blue, yellow, and red blocks don't turn suddenly monochromatically beige and open-frame pergolas become geometric solids when viewed from a different angle. There's also a truck missing.
Not that this needs to be a fight.
exactly, your picture has no context, and the first one has some grey buildings accross the street, they took just the building site with additions to a different showing apparently, ;-)
Ah, yes, good point re: the surrounding context buildings not being there. This is typical for me: focus intently on tiny details while totally missing a much bigger issue LOL.
Is that FG with a cane? Looks terrible.
Carrera, Gehry is an 86 year old man.
FOG's center for kids who can't read good and wanna learn to do other stuff good too
Davvid, I know that, it's just that the last photos I saw seemed dramatically different; perhaps they were "old" too.
perhaps
What guy, free of charge too!
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