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Article: Los Angeles Central Library: a 67-year-old landmark undergoes a by-the-book restoration and receives a 328,000-sq.-ft. addition. (includes related article on the Tom Bradley East Wing of the library) (Reconstruction Project Awards)
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- Building Design & Construction
- Article date:
- October 1, 1994
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Landmarks, like taxi cabs, are hard to come by in Los Angeles. They are also difficult to preserve, judging from the city's 67-year-old Central Library, whose rags-to-restoration saga is in some ways worthy of a Hollywood mini-series.
Decades of squabbles, misfortunes and false starts have finally yielded to a full-scale restoration of the stucco- and limestone-clad library, and to the construction of a 328,000-sq.-ft. east wing that more than doubles the original structure's size.
City and federal agencies, private developers and preservation groups all had a hand in the mammoth undertaking, as did a small army of historians and craftsmen who, under the ...