Pages Tagged “construction”
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- Street (TIE) Fighters
I always think these markings look like TIE Fighters.
- Going Somewhere, Solo?
Another building under (severe) renovation near LAX. The Solo movie posters are still up on this side of the construction wall, more than a month later, though the posters around the corner were replaced with ads for Mamma Mia today. Update (Monday): The posters on this site were replaced over the weekend. Still, it was […]
- The Elevator Gap
The parking structure elevator at this corner only goes down to the second floor. They’re finally fixing that…sort of.
- California Drought Sim, Water Use, and Preserving Open Space
According to simulations, California could adapt to long-term drought. We just have to actually do it. Meanwhile, the Irvine Co. sets some limits on sprawl.
- After the Crunch: Rubble and…Ewoks?
I’ve been watching the Century/Aviation bridge demolition with some interest. The southern rise is down to a single wall, with some interesting graffiti.
- Aftermath: Century Crunch
The intersection looks oddly open, and brighter. The most interesting thing is the tunnel-like remnant of the southern ramp leading up to the old bridge.
- Slated for Destruction
Next weekend, construction crews will tear out this old railroad bridge across Century Blvd near LAX to make way for a Metro station on the future Crenshaw Line. They’ve dubbed the road closure the Century Crunch. As of Thursday, they were already breaking down the parts of the bridge that don’t cross the street. I […]
- Yellow-Green Grass Gradient
The office building next door to work is being converted into a hotel, and the lawn has become a staging area for the renovation work. They’ve turned off the sprinklers, leaving the lawn around the building dried into very short straw and producing an interesting gradient in the transition from watered to unwatered. I kind […]
- Under Construction Indefinitely
We went to Wayzgoose* at UCI on Saturday, which meant getting our annual taste of what’s changed about the college campus. I’d caught the new Student Center last fall, but Katie hadn’t been back since last year, before it was finished. Some of the meeting rooms buried in the hill still remain from the previous […]
- Xyloglyphs
Spotted these at a construction site. It’s a wood-frame building, probably going to be apartments or condos. These stick figures, with the frazzled hair and holding a hammer, were drawn in spray paint on the plywood walls, one between each pair of windows.
- Keep Out!
OK, so they’re just storing stuff on the side of the intersection for a while, but seriously… doesn’t it look like a barricade?
- High Rise Roller Coaster?
This is out off of the 60, not far from Hadley’s Orchards and two new casinos. It seems to be a hotel, but the curves in the scaffolding really do look like a roller coaster!
- Of course they’re ready!
Who needs pesky things like walls, anyway? This is California! We don’t have weather! And the scaffolding just makes it easier to get in and out of the place! (Of course, once the new tenants realize they’re next to a swamp – OK, a marsh – maybe they’ll want those walls!) (Edited August 12: replaced […]