Photo by Michael Locke Los Angeles Central Library Bertram Grosvenor GoodhueCarleton M. WinslowHardy Holzman Pfeiffer AssociatesThe Los Angeles Central Library blends the past with the modern age. Its proposed demolition in the 1970s led to the formation of the L.A. Conservancy.
Photo by Annie Laskey/L.A. Conservancy Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) William L. Pereira & AssociatesHardy Holzman Pfeiffer AssociatesRising on the site of an old adobe ranch home, LACMA was the largest new art museum the country had seen in a quarter century when it opened in 1965.