8 Stunning Architecture Landmarks in Los Angeles
8 landmarks with verified facts and stories
Beverly Hills & Rodeo Drive
Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills, United States
Beverly Hills is the most famous wealthy neighbourhood in the world — an independent city (technically not part of LA) of manicured lawns, palm-lined streets, and the kind of concentrated luxury that has defined American aspirational culture since Hollywood's golden age.
Bradbury Building
304 S Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90013
The Bradbury Building is the most photographed interior in Los Angeles — a five-storey office building from 1893 whose exterior is unremarkable brown brick but whose interior is an atrium of ornate wrought-iron staircases, open cage elevators, and a glass ceiling that floods the space with natural light.
Getty Center
1200 Getty Center Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90049
The Getty Center is one of the greatest art museums in the world — a billion-dollar campus of Italian travertine buildings designed by Richard Meier on a hilltop above the 405 freeway that houses the Getty collection of European paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, and photography in a setting that uses the Southern California landscape as an integral part of the museum experience.
Pasadena & Old Town
South Arroyo, Pasadena, 91105, United States
Pasadena is the most walkable city in the LA basin — an independent city northeast of downtown that has preserved its early 20th-century commercial centre (Old Town), maintained its tree-lined residential streets, and cultivated a cultural identity that includes the Rose Bowl, Caltech, the Huntington Library, and the New Year's Day Tournament of Roses Parade that has been processing down Colorado Boulevard since 1890.
The Broad
221 S Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012
The Broad is LA's most popular contemporary art museum — a honeycomb-like building on Grand Avenue in downtown designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro that houses the Eli and Edythe Broad collection of 2,000 works of postwar and contemporary art, including signature pieces by Jeff Koons, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Cindy Sherman, and Yayoi Kusama.
The Getty Villa
17985 Pacific Coast Highway, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272
The Getty Villa is a recreation of a Roman luxury villa — the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum, buried by Vesuvius in 79 AD — built on the Malibu coastline by J.
Union Station
800 N Alameda Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Union Station is the last great railway station built in America — a 1939 masterpiece that blends Art Deco, Spanish Colonial Revival, and Streamline Moderne architecture into a style so distinctive that it has no proper name beyond 'Union Station style.
Walt Disney Concert Hall
111 S Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Walt Disney Concert Hall is Frank Gehry's masterpiece — a 2,265-seat concert hall wrapped in swooping curves of stainless steel that has been the home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic since 2003 and is the most architecturally significant building in LA.
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