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Structure Type: built works - performing arts structures - opera houses
Designers: Henry Dreyfuss (industrial designer); Wallace K. Harrison (architect); Reginald Davis Johnson (architect); Gordon Bernie Kaufmann (architect); Charles Ormrod Matcham Sr. (architect); William Leonard Pereira (architect); Eero Saarinen (architect); William Wilson Wurster (architect)
Dates: constructed 1948
Opera Associates sought to build a 30,000 seat auditorium on a 23-acre site, bounded by Third Street, Fifth Street, Flower Street and Fremont Street in Downtown Los Angeles in 1948. An all-star Board of Architects included Wallace K. Harrison, William W. Wurster, Reginald D. Johnson, Gordon B. Kaufman, William Pereira, and Consultants, Charles O. Matcham, Henry Dreyfuss (industrial designer) and Eero Saarinen.
Unbuilt.
PCAD id: 9184
