L.A.'s Newest Landmark Reviewed

The New Yorker Reviews Rafael Moneo's new Our Lady of the Angeles Cathedral in Los Angeles.

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September 19, 2002, 5:00 AM PDT

"It is hard to make a landmark in Los Angeles. The city is relentlessly horizontal, and while you might think that a skyscraper would be memorable, it doesn't work that way in L.A. Big, boxy buildings stay in your line of vision longer, which is something that Rafael Moneo must have kept in mind when he was designing the new Our Lady of the Angels cathedral. It is one of the largest religious buildings constructed in the center of an American city in half a century, and one of the most ambitious."

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