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Felix Bird saved Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles, CA.
6 months ago

Spaces in-between at the Annenburge — Like Jade Lavinder

Located near the Century City Towers, the Annenberg Space for Photography is an intimate multimedia gallery dedicated to print and digital photography. As you explore the multifunctional space and view the exhibited photos, you'll notice that the modern interior has been designed to evoke a camera's inner mechanics and its lens. Follow the sound of the thumping soundtrack and enter the Space's central gallery (aka The Iris), where two huge screens and smaller monitors display montages that illuminate the photographers' artistic process. In another area, you can examine the current exhibit in depth via tabletop touchscreens that fascinate as well as inform.
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Felix Bird saved Schindler House in West Hollywood, CA.
6 months ago

Schindler House — Like Not For Tourists

R.M. Schindler worked for Frank Lloyd Wright who sent him to Los Angeles in 1920. There, he built the Kings Road House, famous for its sliding screens, concrete slab walls and its new layout of domestic space. Built in 1922, this innovative design was conceived as a dwelling for two families with a shared "utility room." Four rooms within the private dwelling areas were meant to be assigned specifically to an occupant. Inside the house you are immediately aware of the Yosemite inspiration for this odd home. It really feels like a wilderness camp, with fireplaces everywhere and concrete and wood surfaces to boot. The MAK Center has an office in the original garage—this branch of Austria's Museum of Applied Arts holds openings in the house and keeps it open to the public.
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Felix Bird saved Mor York in Los Angeles, CA.
6 months ago

Mor York — Like GladysG

You’ll swear you’ve fallen down a rabbit hole when you walk into the Wunderkabinett that is artist Clare Graham’s Highland Park studio. The former Disney executive builds intricate sculptural works out of the lids of discarded metal cans, yard sticks, forgotten paint-by-numbers canvases, bottle caps, Scrabble tiles, and his signature pop-tops—which, under his hand, yield graceful volumes only a visionary could have imagined in them. Graham shares his obsession generously: publicly known as Mor York, a portion of the space plays nonprofit host to temporary exhibitions by other local artists and neighborhood events, such as prose and poetry readings and a stop on the Northeast Los Angeles Second Saturdays art walk.
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Felix Bird saved Union Station in Los Angeles, CA.
6 months ago

Union Station — Like Billy Gonzalez

Time is a measure of distance, yet time is lost traversing the iron horse conduit from San Diego to Los Angeles Union Station. Soft shimmies and shakes will massage you in your seat aboard the northbound Surfliner. You will watch blurred vistas of muted shades of brown and green whiz by under blue-gray clouds. Between Trestles Beach and San Clemente Pier you can wave back to beachcombers and surfers. Miles are marked by the sounds of the trackety track and horn toots: long, long, short, long, played with Doppler affected clanging bells. You may see urban sprawl and industrial backsides, but what you will remember most is leaving through your exit portal, historic Union Station.
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Felix Bird saved City Hall Observation Deck in Los Angeles, CA.
6 months ago

City Hall Observation Deck — Like wendy wegner

Catch the very best view of the Los Angeles skyline—and absorb some history along the way—from the City Hall Observation Deck. Riding up two elevators past 32 floors and passing through endless halls of architectural eye candy, Angelinos and visitors alike will feel nostalgic over this historical epicenter of business and culture. “The city came into being to preserve life. It exists for the good life.”—this quote is written along the top of the main room, surrounded by art-deco structures, paintings, and photographs chronicling political figures and moments in time. Stop by any weekday around 4:00pm and you’ll likely get the view—and the sounds of the city—all to yourself.
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Felix Bird saved Bradbury Building in Los Angeles, CA.
6 months ago

Bradbury Building — Like Billy Gonzalez

In downtown Los Angeles, no other building rivals the Bradbury Building for its kaleidoscopic mix of historic, modern, and timeless architectural styling. Walk inside and you will pass into a space thoroughly immortalized in film. In the morning sun, an attorney will swagger into the wrought iron cage elevator like Jack Nicholson as the 1930s Angelino, Jake Gittes in Chinatown. Afternoon visitors ramble through interiors from contemporary movies like Mission: Impossible and 500 Days of Summer. At night, you can search above for the dirigible crossing the atrium glass when J.F. Sebastien arrives home in Blade Runner. Each moment, yours and theirs, is a twist and turn of the same building.
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Felix Bird saved Angels Flight Railway in Los Angeles, CA.
6 months ago

Angels Flight Railway — Like Emily Fox

Who says this city doesn't have public transportation? Back in the days when femme fatales, zoot suit gangsters, and shady private eyes roamed the streets, they could board a funicular in Downtown L.A.'s busy shopping district, then ascend the slope up to the posh residential area of Bunker Hill. Billed as "The World's Shortest Railway," Angels Flight was built in 1901 and became a film noir landmark. Today, lifeless high rise office buildings may dwarf the structure, but in its restored state it still retains its majesty and mystery despite the surrounding dirty hubbub. Check before you go to see if the railway cars are functioning. Angels Flight was closed for several years, but finally reopened in March of 2010. Hitch a ride for the price of a quarter or just skulk around in the railway's shadows, marveling at the fact that something with this much history and charm still exists.
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Felix Bird saved Natural History Museum of LA in Los Angeles, CA.
6 months ago

Natural History Museum of LA — Like Jessica Aves

The Earth’s most beautiful geodes and stones, from as close as San Diego and as far away as Tanzania, have been collected to the Natural History of Los Angeles’s Hall of Gems and Minerals. Cloaked in black and lit dramatically, this chamber is Mother Nature’s jewelry box. For the price of admission, you can gawk at an extremely rare red diamond, ponder shrapnel from a meteorite, and marvel at the largest gold nugget on display in the world. Teach your mouth to say new words like “rhodochrosite,” “diopside,” and “tourmaline” while imaging how jewels resemble hard candy, pieces of cake, or puffs of mold. Nothing has looked so mesmerizing since you were a kid in a candy shop.
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Felix Bird saved Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, CA.
6 months ago

Skirball Cultural Center — Like GladysG

The Skirball Cultural Center is known for its interactive exhibitions—and not the kind where visitors are glued to a computer screen. Their brilliant Noah's Ark installation, the work of Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects, was five years in the making; every bit of it can be handled, pulled, prodded, and lived. Artist Christopher M. Green, with Lexington Studios, designed the animals, seeing an alligator’s maw in a violin case and a zebra’s haunches in wind turbines. Assembly and materials (surgical tubing, discarded tools such as a hand saw) are all evident. With luck, this clairvoyance inspires kids to understand how much better it is to make stuff than to buy it. Expect no didactic explanations or how-tos, this is a place for play.
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Felix Bird saved Wilshire Ebell Theater in Los Angeles, CA.
6 months ago