Los Angeles High School for the Visual and Performing Arts in Los Angeles

Los Angeles High School for the Visual and Performing Arts in Los Angeles, California
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Los Angeles High School for the Visual and Performing Arts in Los Angeles, California
Photograph © Wayne Lorentz/Artefaqs Corporation

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Los Angeles High School for the Visual and Performing Arts


Official name:Central Los Angeles Area High School #9
North Grand Avenue at Cesar Chavez Avenue, Los Angeles, California, Downtown Los Angeles 90012 United StatesPrint this page   •   Share this page   •   Map This

Quick Facts
Statistics
  • Floor space: 230,000 square feet
Notes
  • Architect: Wolf D. Prix
  • Architecture firm: Coop Himmelb(l)au
Did You Know?
  • The room at the top of the tower was intended to be made available for event space, but the school district wouldn't pay to finish it, so it remains empty and unused.
Controversy
  • This project was originally supposed to cost $87 million. The final price tag was $232 million.
Quotations
  • "Prix's style is what you might call mesmerizingly inefficient. Like a baroque architect piling ornament into the upper reaches of a church interior, he tends to make his most highly wrought spaces inaccessible and essentially decorative -- in the soaring ceiling above the school's main public lobby on Grand Avenue, for example."

    -Christopher Hawthorne, Los Angeles Times, May 31, 2009.

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