Plans have been unveiled for a new state park near downtown Los Angeles, and though the plot is slated at 32 acres, many of the big-name architects presenting plans were not afraid to push the boundaries by a couple thousand percent.
Plans were released Saturday in Los Angeles for a new state park at the city's historic corn field site north of downtown. The plans vary widely in function and size (32 acres on the low end and more than 1,000 acres on the high end), but all seek to address the shortage of greenspace in the city.
"Proposals by Mia Lehrer+Associates, a Los Angeles firm, and San Francisco's Hargreaves Associates focus on sustainability, concentrated blasts of architectural innovation and links to surrounding neighborhoods and the banks of a restored river. By contrast, the design by the New York landscape firm Field Operations, working with architect Thom Mayne, calls for almost impossibly grand, macro-level thinking; it proposes a land swap that would build a new Dodger Stadium on the end of the park site nearest Chinatown, among other oversized features."
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