Pacific Design Center

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Pacific Design Center

Name	Pacific Design Center
Location	West Hollywood, California
Country	United States
Architect	Cesar Pelli
Client	Charles C. Cohen
Completion Date	1975

The Pacific Design Center, or PDC, is a 1.2 million square feet multi-use facility for the design community located in West Hollywood, California. One of the buildings is often described as the Blue Whale because of its outsize nature relative to surrounding buildings and its brilliant blue glass cladding.

Center Green and the central fountain at the Pacific Design Center

Pacific Design Center Center Green

Pacific Design Center Center Blue or "The Blue whale"

MOCA at the Pacific Design Center

1 Site and Brief
2 Architecture
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Site and Brief

The PDC houses the West Coast's top decorating and furniture market, with showrooms, public and private spaces, a branch of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) and two restaurants operated by chef and restaurateur Wolfgang Puck. The Center has 130 showrooms which display and sell 2,100 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 post-Oscar parties hosted at the PDC are particularly well known.

[edit] Architecture

Designed by architect Cesar Pelli, the 14-acre campus opened in 1975, with the 750,000 square-foot Center Blue. Center Green opened in 1988, adding 450,000 square-feet. A long planned third phase, Center Red, was announced in April 2006, with plans for completion in 2008. Center Red has evolved into a 400,000-square-foot structure with two state-of-the-art office towers — six and eight stories high respectively — sitting atop seven levels of enclosed parking for 1,500 cars.^[2]^[3]