The 378-page recommendation report filed by a group of preservationists, including preservationist Richard Schave and architect and 20th century architectural historian Alan Hess, calls on the city to protect the three most iconic structures of the Los Angeles Times complex [...] Purely from a design perspective, preserving The Times complex — once known as Times Mirror Square — is a difficult proposition. — latimes.com
The Los Angeles Times complex consists of three iconic structures which preservationists are pushing to make historic monuments. There is the 1935 building by Gordon B. Kaufmann featuring “The Times” neon sign and the grand Globe Lobby, Rowland Crawford’s late moderne style Mirror Building built in 1948, and the luxe Times Mirror corporate headquarters designed by William Pereira in 1973. Old enough to be out of date but not enough to necessarily be revered as historic, these structures hang in limbo with an undermined fate in Los Angeles history.
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Wish there was more time and energy spent on cleaning/brightening up these old Art Deco / Late Modern / Brutalist buildings with light touch solutions. They always end up dark and dirty looking after 50 years + of use, then people want to come in and tear them down. They just need to be brightened up!
The other historic LA newspaper HQ is further south, and there are plans for reuse. Fingers crossed.
That Spanish revival building is Awsome. The Deco one is no slouch either. Glad to see their preserving them.
Preservation of The Times complex in the story is by no means certain. It's going to be a knock-down, drag-out fight, I'm sure.
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