The L.A. Forum for Architecture and Urban Design is partying along the Los Angeles River for ForumFest 2015, Bridge. Tunnel. Channel., happening at the Sixth Street Bridge tunnel on Sunday, October 25.
ForumFest highlights the historic Sixth Street Viaduct as a signifier of change in the city. The viaduct will be demolished in the coming weeks and be replaced by a new bridge by Michael Maltzan Architecture.
Enjoy a festive evening of DJs, live music, food and trucks, and artistic and musical surprises — all while supporting the L.A. Forum!
The party will feature temporary installations by architects and designers in the Forum’s 2015 Out There Doing It series: Typical Office (Duygun Inal and Ben Warwas); LA-BOR (Jia Gu and Jonathan Crisman); and PAR (Jennifer Marmon).
Jai & Jai Gallery (Jomjai and Jaitip Srisomburananont) will also present a curated series of video works by Chris Gassaway, Devin Gharakhanian, Nick Korody, Juanito Olivarria, Tomas Koolhaas, Akiko Yamashita, and art by Mike Nesbit.
Purchase tickets here.
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Sad to see beautiful structures like the art work of the Sixth Street viaduct piers be demolished for something that doesn't exactly have the precise attention to detail of aesthetics. It should be aesthetic not just functional. Why do we replace such with bland. What happened to such art or even the aspiration. It seems blander because we are bland souls because there isn't any culture. We are just bland drones.
Sad... sad... where have we gone. I would wish they design with the same degree of artistic spirit not just mechanical thinking. I'm not saying that the replacement designs are horrible but they don't necessarily seem to have artistry and craft to elevate and uplift the standard and drive aspiration for better. When that bridge was built, L.A. was a nice place in those days.
Oh wait, it's L.A.
@Richard I don't know these images make me think Maltzan's design will be quite nice. Functional and aesthetically pleasing... Look at the way the ramp and arches frame a view as you ascend.
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