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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    The changing design of the LA Times building

    The Los Angeles Times is moving from downtown LA to El Segundo, leaving behind an iconic building. It’s being considered for city monument status by the L.A. Cultural Heritage Commission.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Jul 18, 2018 • 1 min read

    The Los Angeles Times is moving from downtown LA to El Segundo, leaving behind an iconic building. It’s being considered for city monument status by the L.A. Cultural Heritage Commission. LA Times staffer Carolina Miranda took a close look at the architectural smorgasbord she’s leaving behind.

    Reporter Martha Groves at her desk in the LA Times newsroom in 1997.

    An unused piece of newsroom in the William Pereira­-designed building

    on the fourth floor of the LA Times complex.

    The view of Gordon B. Kaufmann’s original Times building from the

    10th floor of the Mirror Building, designed by Rowland Crawford.

    The eagle in the lobby of the Globe Lobby

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      Madeleine Brand

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      Carolina Miranda

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    The full episode

    5 of 5
    How home staging makes housing more expensive
    1. 0:00OC Republican Dana Rohrabacher's relations with Russians
    2. 9:27Home staging helps drive housing prices higher
    3. 18:12How LA cleared homeless people off the streets for the '84 Olympics
    4. 26:50In 'McQueen,' the highs and lows of fashion designer Alexander McQueen
    5. 41:17The changing design of the LA Times buildingYou’re reading this
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