Sitting in traffic so an investment company gets rich, while sticking people on top of methane gas deposits. It was a swamp for a reason even If you dump lots of fill dirt. Then there is the mitigated hazardous materials dumped by Hughes and Tongva burials pushed under sports areas and 10, years of life erased for a Discovery Park plaque.
The lawsuits by the neighboring cities, environmental and social justice groups were not settled. They and LA lost. Re: Playa Vista. I live in the area, and have driven past Playa Vista on Lincoln every business day for the last six years.
During the year-long-or-so period that Lincoln was being upgraded, I presume partialy at the Playa Vista developer's expense, there WAS a lot of traffic there.
But for the last two years, traffic on Lincoln has returned to normal, and frankly, I thing the general level of traffic in the area is quite light. At the corner of Lincoln and Jefferson, at the height of morning commute, the backup at the signal is quite tolerable by LA standards.
The widening of Lincoln has been in my opinion quite successful. Again, in my opinion, the traffic and air pollution complaints are completely overblown. So when you say about the post that "everything it says is true", I'd encourage you to look a little closer. As someone who it there all the time, I don't agree at all. I like the Maltzan park as an art installation, but I do have a few concerns about it as a functioning park.
The first think you see when you arrive is a big sign which lists all the stuff you can't do there. The list is encyclopedic, and includes such antisocial behavior as biking, skateboarding, and "using the facilities for purposes other that for which they were designed". So much for spontaneity.
The sign might as well just say "no fun allowed". There's even a sign that says that you are not allowed to retrieve a ball that blows into one of the many lovely ponds on the property. I picture a four-year-old standing at the shore, watching his ball in the center of the pond, tears streaming down his cheeks.
The planting very interesting and creative, but this is potentially the most high-maintenance park public park I've ever seen. When you walk through it, the hand of the designer is everywhere.
There is no real "nature" here. It's all carefully, artificially orchestrated. Varied as the transverse zones appear, they are united by the long axis skewering them and crossing the water like a causeway. On this level, the diagonal paths that evoke airport taxiways from above perform like walkways in a classic academic campus, connecting people and buildings across a green.
The most traditionally architectural item here is the bandshell. Like the paths, it has an aeronautical quality. A roughly spherical, stretched-fabric object, stealthily perched on two steel feet, it conveys a sense of buoyancy, recalling a moored dirigible, but with ramps extending out, instead of guy wires.
Solid by day, the white shell dematerializes visually by night, glowing like a lantern. Structurally, the design transforms potentially hefty rings into tracery-like ribs, transferring loads across transmodal struts. The skeleton simultaneously conveys lightness and dynamic sculptural depth, heightened by a pleated skin, rather than a single simple surface. Even without all the anticipated buildings that will eventually form a backdrop, this iconic pavilion has become a local landmark, a destination, with events from concerts to weddings.
Soccer fields and basketball courts to the west, and amphitheater lawn and woodlands for gathering and relaxation to the east, extend the program areas to the street edge. Echoing the historic Howard Hughes runway which once crossed the site, this trajectory is further defined by elongated stripes of color and light, visible not only within the Park but also to aircraft landing at the nearby Los Angeles International Airport.
The Park is akin to a campus, its tightly integrated network of pathways and programs open and unscripted in access and use. Fluff is fluff. Sitting in traffic so an investment company gets rich, while sticking people on top of methane gas deposits.
It was a swamp for a reason even If you dump lots of fill dirt. Then there is the mitigated hazardous materials dumped by Hughes and Tongva burials pushed under sports areas and 10, years of life erased for a Discovery Park plaque.
The lawsuits by the neighboring cities, environmental and social justice groups were not settled. They and LA lost.
Have you ever been there? I visited on a Sunday afternoon. Saw only about people out and about. The community has some lovely features like a small central park with an amphitheater. The community felt very cold, even with beautiful planting. And the right-sized streets were overshadowed by the adjacent 5-story buildings in the small commercial district.
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