by Kim Cooper | Feb 21, 2020 | The Esotouric Blog
Updates: Billionaire LACMA board co-chair Elaine Wynn doesn’t care about the mission of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to serve the taxpayers and community: instead of the promised South Los Angeles satellite, there is now a scheme to ship pieces from the...
by Kim Cooper | Dec 4, 2019 | The Esotouric Blog
Yesterday in Los Angeles City Hall, our Richard Schave (representing the nonprofit Save LACMA and the LACMA Lovers League’s 1850+ petitioners) and Save LACMA board president Rob Hollman gave public comment against the granting of city-owned air rights over...
by Kim Cooper | Oct 19, 2019 | The Esotouric Blog
If you’ve followed Esotouric for any time at all, you know that we’re big fans of William L. Pereira’s civic and commercial architecture, and have advocated for the preservation of such endangered buildings as the Metropolitan Water District HQ, Los...
by Kim Cooper | Apr 25, 2019 | The Esotouric Blog
Today, in partnership with The Late Group, we celebrate the 110th birthday of William Pereira, one of the most influential shapers of mid-twentieth-century California. His scope and innovations range from the LAX Theme Building (our Eiffel Tower) to LACMA (the...
by Kim Cooper | Jan 2, 2018 | The Esotouric Blog
Gentle reader… As we slam the door on 2017, it’s time for that annual Esotouric tradition: our very opinionated list of the past year’s Top Los Angeles Historic Preservation Stories. Because preservation is never as simple as buildings being lost forever or rescued...
