Pacific Design Center
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Description
The PDC houses the West Coast's top decorating and furniture market, with showrooms, public and private spaces and used to host a branch of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA). The Center has 100 showrooms which display and sell 2,200 interior product lines to professional interior designers, architects, facility managers, decorators and dealers.[1]
The Pacific Design Center hosts many screenings, exhibitions, lectures, meetings, special events and receptions for the design, entertainment and arts communities. The annual Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy Award Party has traditionally been held at the PDC. The party is one of the longest running and best known of the post-Oscar parties as well as being a multimillion-dollar fundraiser for the foundation.[2]
The interior of one floor of the Blue Whale, and the escalators of the same building, are used extensively as the underground workshops for the Westworld TV series.
Architecture
Designed by Argentine architect César Pelli, the Script error: No such module "convert". campus opened in 1975, with the Script error: No such module "convert". Center Blue. Architect Norma Merrick Sklarek also contributed to the architectural design of the building.[3] Center Green opened in 1988, adding Script error: No such module "convert".. The final phase of the plan, Center Red, opened in 2013 with an additional Script error: No such module "convert"..[4]
Gallery
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Center Green and the central fountain at the Pacific Design Center
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Pacific Design Center Center Green
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Pacific Design Center Center Blue or "The Blue Whale"
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Pacific Design Center - Red Building nearing completion, Feb. 28, 2011
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MOCA at the Pacific Design Center
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A fashion show at the Pacific Design Center, 1976
Tenants
| Entity | Location |
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| WeWork | Red Building |
References
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- MOCA Pacific Design Center
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- Commercial buildings in Los Angeles
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- César Pelli buildings
- Modernist architecture in California
- Tourist attractions in Los Angeles County, California
- Buildings and structures in West Hollywood, California
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