by Kim Cooper | Oct 22, 2019 | The Esotouric Blog
Last Wednesday morning, we joined a passionate band of concerned Angelenos at Los Angeles City Hall in a last ditch effort to halt the runaway Planning Department train that appears intent on approving demolition of half of the historic, landmark Los Angeles Times...
by Kim Cooper | Oct 9, 2019 | The Esotouric Blog
The Angelenos who landmarked the Los Angeles Times buildings cordially invite you to be a part of their history, by asking the Planning Commission to “do the right thing” at the Final EIR hearing on October 16 and approve a redevelopment plan that preserves and...
by Kim Cooper | May 21, 2019 | The Esotouric Blog
A week ago, after the Los Angeles Times broke the story that cracks had started to appear inside and outside the landmark Los Angeles Times buildings in January, and that Metro had prepared a report for Federal regulators, we asked the Los Angeles Planning Department...
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 | Feb 4, 2019 | The Esotouric Blog
In exposing one distressing historic architecture world mystery, The Los Angeles Times might have just solved a second one. As we read The Times’ story about the unreported theft of significant decorative objects from a Los Angeles warehouse, we were reminded of...