Pacific Design Center
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Name | Pacific Design Center |
Location | West Hollywood, California |
Country | United States |
Architect | Cesar Pelli |
Client | Charles C. Cohen |
Completion Date | 1975 |
The Pacific Design Center, or PDC, is a 1.2 million square feet multi-use facility for the design community located in West Hollywood, California. One of the buildings is often described as the Blue Whale because of its outsize nature relative to surrounding buildings and its brilliant blue glass cladding.
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[edit] Site and Brief
The PDC houses the West Coast's top decorating and furniture market, with showrooms, public and private spaces, a branch of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) and two restaurants operated by chef and restaurateur Wolfgang Puck. The Center has 130 showrooms which display and sell 2,100 interior product lines to professional interior designers, architects, facility managers, decorators and dealers.[1]
The Pacific Design Center hosts many screenings, exhibitions, lectures, meetings, special events and receptions for the design, entertainment and arts communities. The post-Oscar parties hosted at the PDC are particularly well known.
[edit] Architecture
Designed by architect Cesar Pelli, the 14-acre campus opened in 1975, with the 750,000 square-foot Center Blue. Center Green opened in 1988, adding 450,000 square-feet. A long planned third phase, Center Red, was announced in April 2006, with plans for completion in 2008. Center Red has evolved into a 400,000-square-foot structure with two state-of-the-art office towers — six and eight stories high respectively — sitting atop seven levels of enclosed parking for 1,500 cars.[2][3]
[edit] References
- ^ About PDC. Pacific Design Center website. Retrieved on March 2, 2007.
- ^ Ostroff, Tracy (2006-04-28). Cesar Pelli Finally Sees “Red”: Long-awaited LA building will complete triad at Pacific Design Center. AIArchitect. American Institute of Architects. Retrieved on March 2, 2007.
- ^ Developer Charles C. Cohen and architect Cesar Pelli unveil plans for 'red', a spectacular 400,000 sf red glass office building that completes Pacific Design Center master plan. Pacific Design Center website (2006-03-01). Retrieved on March 2, 2007.
[edit] External links
- Pacific Design Center website Retrieved March 02, 2007
- MOCA Los Angeles website Retrieved March 05, 2007