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Watts Towers - Nuestro Pueblo
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steel, cement, glass Metal frame covered with fresh mortar. Decorations with colored glass from broken bottles, broken dishes, and sea shells
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North America |
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 California |
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 Los Angeles |
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 Los Angeles |
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1765 E. 107th street (Santa Ana Boulevard)
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TYPOLOGY |
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ARCHITECTURE | Monuments, decorations, furnishings, graphics
Monuments and works of art
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CHRONOLOGY |
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Project |
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1921
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Realisation |
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1921 - 1954 |
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AWARDS |
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| 1990 |
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| National Historic Landmark |
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| 1977 |
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| National Register of Historic Places |
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THE BUILDING IN CINEMA |
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| Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, John Legend, Rosemarie DeWitt
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| Denzel Washington, John Lithgow |
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| Bernie Casey, Rosalind Cash, Marie O'Henry, Ji-Tu Cumbuka |
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| Tarzan and Jane Regained... Sort of |
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| Irving Blum, Brooke Hayward, Dennis Hopper, Naomi Levine, Taylor Mead, Andy Warhol |
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BIBILIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES |
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| Pierre Restany, "Una festa senza nome / A festival without a name", Domus 811, gennaio/january 1999 [Il progetto anonimo / The Anonymous Project], pp. 117 (116-122) |
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| Sam Hall Kaplan, LA Lost & Found: an Architectural History of Los Angeles, Crown Publishers, New York 1987, p. 152 |
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| Bruno Zevi, Spazî dell'architettura moderna, Einaudi, Torino 1973, tav. 606 [XII. La terza età: itinerarî degli anni cinquanta-ottanta] |
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Tallest tower m. 30,34 (ft. 99.5)
Central tower m. 29,83 (ft. 97.8)
east tower m. 16,76 (ft. 55) |
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