Design and Architecture
Skyspace LA, Mini-Golf, Assemble Collective
Interventions in the urban fabric: the new Skyslide brings fun to downtown’s financial district. Will it attract more tenants? In Echo Park, a public mini-golf course gives new meaning to an empty site. And British design collective Assemble recently checked out the Coachella Valley. Why?
By Frances Anderton • • 29m ListenPhoto: DnA’s Frances Anderton descends LA’s Skyslide at the US Bank Tower. (Sean Dellorco)
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3 storiesSkyspace LA
There’s a new attraction in downtown LA that has everyone talking: the Skyslide. The outdoor glass slide, part of OUE Skyspace LA , allows riders to slide from the 70th floor of the city’s iconic US Bank Tower , once the tallest building in the world. It’s part of an effort to reinvigorate the financial district.
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At the northeast corner of Echo Park Lake, Materials & Applications – a non-profit that focuses on experimental and alternative architecture – has set up a mini-golf course called TURF.
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Bottom-up, interventionist approaches to citymaking are having a moment. The 2016 global Architecture Biennale in Venice, Italy, showcased many projects with this sensibility. Among them was an adventure playground designed by the Turner Prize-winning British collective Assemble , in collaboration with a community in Scotland.
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