“But they won’t dominate everything else.”Įxpo Park, like many of L.A.’s public spaces, resembles a fortress bordered by noisy, unpleasant roads, with few links to the city outside. He acknowledged that vehicles may always be part of the equation, even as they become self-driving. “Of course cars will have a place,” said Payton, whose firm is developing the park master plan out of its office in downtown L.A. is, after all, one of the most park-poor areas in the country) to linger through more enticing and more plentiful pathways, plantings and visitor amenities. Sparked by these changes and the 2028 Games, the state-funded Office of Exposition Park Management - with contributions from the park’s member institutions - last year hired Washington, D.C.-based master planning specialists Torti Gallas + Partners and a large team of consultants to propose ways for the park to function more like a park.įor now, Torti Gallas principal Neal Payton said, the attention is on three pedestrian-focused elements meant to undo years of car-focused planning: Link the park to the city around it, connect the park’s many pieces to one another, and encourage visitors and locals alike (South L.A. Also of note: USC’s ongoing $270-million renovation of the Coliseum. Officials have commissioned a new master plan timed with the most significant park additions in decades: MAD Architects’ Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, which is under construction and will float above the west edge of the park Frederick Fisher and Partners’ new wing for the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, which will serve as a new entrance facing the Lucas Museum and ZGF’s Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center, a permanent home for the ( soon-to-be upright) Space Shuttle. We need some quiet places and some beautiful places.”Īt long last, that change may finally be coming. To dream a little bit and enjoy the outside. “We have to remember that people should be able to come to the park, not just to go to a museum or a stadium. “It’s sort of chaos right now,” said Billie Greer, chair of the Master Plan Committee for the board of directors of Exposition Park. But make no mistake: The car - and its In-N-Out culture - is still king here. Past revitalization efforts, including a 1993 master plan spearheaded by the California Science Center, made dents in this fractured condition, adding green space (particularly along the park’s west edge) and removing some surface parking. Alexander Science Center School, a charter elementary designed by Thom Mayne.īut this remarkable compilation of attractions remains broken, chopped, blocked and diced - a slew of largely car-oriented puzzle pieces interspersed with more than half a dozen outsized parking lots, several faceless access roads and some ugly fences and patches of dirt. Keith), the Exposition Park Rose Garden, the Expo Center (hosting youth swimming, soccer and other programs) and the Dr. The park also is home to the new Banc of California soccer stadium, the resurgent California African American Museum (which until recently had arguably the buzziest curator in town, Naima J. The Coliseum hosted the Olympic Games in 19, and will again in 2028. Yes, Expo Park, established in 1872 as a 160-acre agricultural fairground, contains many destinations to visit.
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