Bunker Hill Modern Architecture

The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels is defined by its sand-colored concrete walls and the absence of traditional right angles. Designed by Rafael Moneo, the structure replaced the earthquake-damaged Cathedral of Saint Vibiana. Cardinal…

Gloria Molina Grand Park stretches twelve acres from the Music Center down to City Hall, identifiable by its bright pink metal chairs scattered across the lawns and shaded walkways. It sits on land that once held private residences and…

The Music Center features three distinct curvilinear buildings wrapped in white Italian marble. It serves as the primary stage for Los Angeles’s resident symphony, opera, and dance companies. Dorothy Chandler spent years raising the money…

The Walt Disney Concert Hall is a jumble of brushed stainless steel curves that catch the Southern California sun. Lillian Disney donated fifty million dollars in nineteen eighty-seven to build a home for the Los Angeles Philharmonic.…

The Broad wears a honeycomb-like white veil of concrete and steel that wraps around the building, filtering daylight into the galleries inside. Eli and Edythe Broad spent decades building a private collection of postwar and contemporary…

The Museum of Contemporary Art sits in the heart of Bunker Hill, defined by a series of red sandstone towers and a sunken courtyard that drops below street level. It began in nineteen seventy-nine when a group of artists and collectors…

The water cascading down the concrete amphitheater distinguishes California Plaza from the surrounding skyscrapers of Bunker Hill. Developers built this space in the mid-eighties as the centerpiece of a massive urban renewal project that…

The U.S. Bank Tower features a jagged, glass-paneled crown that breaks the flat skyline of downtown Los Angeles. When it opened in nineteen eighty-nine, its seventy-three stories made it the tallest building west of the Mississippi River.…