I took my camera to work with me yesterday to take pictures from my frequent walks around downtown Los Angeles during my lunch hour.Many t.v. commercials have bee filmed in front of The Standard Hotel (at right) on Flower Street at 6th Street over the past couple of years, and the hotel is the hip place to attend rooftop parties in the evenings.
A little further north on Flower, the view from 5th and Flower looking up at the Citigroup tower (made famous in the 80s tv show L.A. Law), on the left, and the US Bank Tower, the tallest building on the West Coast and the purported target of Al Qaeda terrorists in 2002, on the right.
Walking up the hill, where Flower becomes Hope Street, and looking back toward the Financial District.
Walt Disney Concert Hall is on the left, and the US Bank Tower is in the center background.
Some more photos of Disney Hall, designed by architect Frank Gehry and the newest part of the Los Angeles Music Center:
Walking around Disney Hall, looking down Grand Avenue:
About a block down on Grand Avenue is the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), which is co-hosting the Masters of American Comics exhibition for another couple of weeks.
Crossing from Grand Avenue to Hope Street in front of the Mellon Bank building, there is this view of the Bonaventure Hotel and the downtown YMCA building in green at the bottom of the picture.
Walking down the Bunker Hill steps and turning right at the Central Library onto 5th Street, looking up at the Bonaventure Hotel from the corner of 5th and Flower:
In the courtyard of the City National Plaza, with its twin charcoal gray towers, is this fountain, a favorite destination for those on their lunch hour.You can see a gmap of the route here, and a more detailed map of the buildings in downtown at this site.
