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Day 47 - The city of angels

Scritto da Silicon_Simon.
Giovedì 19 Aprile 2012, 06:07 am.

Last week I was in L.A. with Luisa; she attended a three-day conference organized by American Planning Association, a gigantic meeting collecting nearly five thousands people from all over the U.S. We both attended the talking dinner where "Planning Los Angeles" was presented. It was such a pleasant night.

_{The Walt Disney Concert Hall in Downtown L.A. by Frank O. Gehry.}

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Did I like L.A.? Well, actually I don't know. City of Angels is a country on its own, a car-based metropolis where a walking tourist can go pretty nowhere. Sure, I enjoyed Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills and deprecated Grand Central Market, but they are same aspects of the same place.

_{The Walt Disney Concert Hall from the street.}

Our hotel was very close to the Walt Disney Concert Hall by Frank O. Gehry. Even if it's been a widely discussed project provoking with contrasting emotions, I was captured by those curves and surfaces. Details are not so well manufactured but they made the whole nine yards in a very evocative way.

_{The Walt Disney Concert Hall: detail.}

_{The Walt Disney Concert Hall very elegant in its surfaces.}

_{Me at Rodeo Drive 1/2.}

_{Me at Rodeo Drive 2/2.}

_{Staples Center, Nokia Live - Home of L.A. Lakers.}

_{Microdrones used to film the next Transformers episode.}

_{Transformers set at Staples Center 1/3.}

_{Transformers set at Staples Center 2/3.}

_{Transformers set at Staples Center 3/3.}

_{Play it again Sam.}

_UCLA.

_{UCLA Police is LEED certified.}