Pacific Design Center

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Pacific Design Center

Pacific Design Center Blue Whale
Building Information
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.

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[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 Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy Awards Viewing 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 multi-million dollar fundraiser for the foundation.[2]

[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.[3][4]

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

[edit] References

  1. ^ About PDC. Pacific Design Center website. Retrieved on 2007-03-02.
  2. ^ EJAF Fundraising. Elton John AIDS Foundation. Retrieved on 2008-02-26.
  3. ^ Ostroff, Tracy (2006-04-28). Cesar Pelli Finally Sees “Red”: Long-awaited LA building will complete triad at Pacific Design Center. AIArchitect. American Institute of Architects. Retrieved on 2007-03-02.
  4. ^ Developer Charles C. Cohen and architect Cesar Pelli unveil plans for 'red', a spectacular 400,000 sf red glass office building that completes Pacific Design Center master plan. Pacific Design Center website (2006-03-01). Retrieved on 2007-03-02.

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