Discount Cruises – A Fantastic Trip At A Reduced PriceLos Angeles, The Transformation...by Rite Rodder Transfigured, the city of myth and show business shows its' urban and cultural revolution. And if, after New York and Miami, had the City of Angels won its spurs as the capital of the XXI century? Unusual View Of Wilshire Boulevard At the foot of a giant escalator, a forest of lamps painted gray that runs along a majestic avenue of palm trees: it is the last attraction that puts visitors in Los Angeles around the world. Decor made in Hollywood? No, rather cultural building: the BCAM (Broad Contemporary Art Museum), inaugurated on February 16, completes the entire LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum). Created in the 1960s, the museum, collections as beautiful eclectic (from prehistory to the twenty-first century), is in a disparate collection of buildings which it is today to give cohesion and direction. 
Charge of the case, Barbara Pflaume does not hide his enthusiasm in doing the honors of the new extension signed by the architect Renzo Piano: the ultimate realization of high-tech style dear to the creator of the Pompidou Centre (with Richard Rodgers). The detail that makes all the chic: the escalator placed outside, responding to the wishes of conservative and generous patron, billionaire Eli Broad, who want to allocate the maximum space for the deployment of some monumental works (Richard Serra, Jeff Koons, Robert Therrien...). Since opening, the success is the appointment -15,000 visitors the first weekend-, swelling of endless queues. For the happiness of families of average Americans who preferred Rembrandt, Dali or Japanese netsuke to Disneyland and other theme parks. So much for our pictures of Europeans! In a decade, Los Angeles was the site of an incredible metamorphosis. The Woody Allen condescending to "Annie Hall" mocking the city "with all the cultural is to turn right at traffic lights" would not recognize his favorite Turk's head. Raymond Chandler any more than there would find this "great city hard-to-cook no more personality than a paper cup" ("a big hard-boiled city with no more personality than a paper cup"). Capital artificially cheap dream is engaged in a great movement towards urban renewal with the main engine of culture. Paving The Way For All Experiments, Including Architecture Promoting activities to a large metropolis, trade and tourism at the expense of the tradition of entertainment: movies and music can no longer in the fifth position in the economy of the City of Angels. No doubt the Getty Center, which recently celebrated its tenth anniversary, it was the first sign of this radical transmutation. On the hills of Brentwood, overlooking a beautiful garden, all built by stunning Richard Meier is worth visiting for its collection, gathered through huge financial means (and without too many scruples) by the eccentric J. Paul Getty. This is an amazing institution, both museum, research center scholarly and popular education, place for walking and recreation, whose ambition embraces the universal culture. The most impressive change observed in the "downtown LA" long forgotten refuge of the American dream, that neighborhood was remodeled, installing contemporary art at MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) of the Japanese Arata Isozaki, and Music at Walt Disney Concert Hall by Frank Gehry. Dressed in clouds of titanium in the style, made in Bilbao, which has revolutionized our perception of architecture and it is one of the three largest U.S. entertainment complexes. At its extraordinary concert hall and delicious added the Patina Hanging Gardens, one of the best restaurants L. A. (Member of Relais & Châteaux), also designed by Gehry who has dressed the walls of carved wood pieces such as drapes. History noted that the new life in LA is also fun. Refinement inseparable from the energy of these architectures pitched into the sky. And that's not all: there is already talk of the Film Museum that will build Christian de Portzamparc. Also it is an emblematic of this fascinating stage of the circuit of the great capitals of culture. |
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