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Watts Towers
Los Angeles, CA - Lisa Tang - Friday, May 20th, 2005 : goo
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The Watts Towers:
Architect: Simon Rodia
Location: Los Angeles, California
Date: 1921-1955
Building Type: monument
Construction System: steel and concrete assemblage
Climate: mild to dry
Context: urban
Style: Modern Urban Vernacular
Notes: Idiosyncratic, exhuberant monumental urban art, created by one inspired individual.
"One man's artistic fantasy is here given substance: fanciful spires pieced together over a period of thirty-three years from steel reinforcing rods and wire mesh, colorfully decorated with seashells and fragments of broken dishes and bottles.
-—from Sylvia Hart Wright. Sourcebook of Contemporary North American Architecture: From Postwar to Postmodern.
Details:
Watts Towers Arts Center
(213) 847-4646
1765 East 107th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90002
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kobe: 20th May 2005 - 16:08 GMT
no way! this is in los angeles? wow. what an amazing construct. i guess it was being built for a long time... before the sprawl took over. id love to see aerial shots of it.
Lili: 17th Jun 2005 - 05:00 GMT
Years ago I read that after Simon Rodia passed onward the city tried to
pull at least one of the towers down by attaching cable from a large truck to the top of the tower - the trucks' wheels just spun - the tower didn't
budge !
Suburban Tactics: 8th Jul 2005 - 20:50 GMT
They were constructed in the 50's or 60's or somthing.
Simon Rodia started it using all the things that the people of the community through out metal scraps, dishes, misc. crap mixed with concrete.
Jamie: 29th Aug 2005 - 17:58 GMT
I've been playing GTA San Andreas on the PS2 alot lately and the watts towers certainly do star in the game. they can be found in the city of Los Santos. I got shot and jumped into a lke and was shot again and killed.
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