SUNSET MOUNTAIN

Never Built Los Angeles Exhibit

A & D Museum
4'x4'x1'
Acrylic & High Density Foam

Los Angeles, CA |  2013

Never Built Los Angeles was an exhibit looking at the great unbuilt projects of Los Angeles. There were many visionary works that were proposed that would have totally changed modern Los Angeles on a number of levels, from potential historic landmark buildings to large changes in the urbanscape of Los Angeles.

Sunset Mountain was a large superstructure set to be built into the Santa Monica Mountains. The project was designed by Cesar Pelli and Tony Lumsden in 1966. It was an alternative to suburbia offering a dense community that left much of the surrounding site untouched. However due to resistance from the surrounding community the megastructure was never built, most of the drawings and information on the project have been lost.

Done in conjunction with the The Model Shop & Los Angeles’ A & D Museum. The Sunset Mountain model was built from a few remaining available drawings of the project.