Architect, author discuss Holocaust Museum’s expansion

By Suzan Filipek Architect Hagy Belzberg

will talk with author Greg Goldin about the Holocaust Museum

LA’s “Building Truth” expansion project.

The conversation will take place on Sun., April 30, at 5 p.m. at the museum, 100 The Grove Dr

The museum is getting ready to break ground on an expansion of the Jona Goldrich Campus, whose original building, designed by Museum board member and award-winning architect Belzberg, opened in 2010.

According to museum officials, the museum has insufficient capacity, especially during school hours.

The expansion will double the museum’s footprint without taking away any green space from Pan Pacific Park, where the museum is located on the northwestern edges. The expansion facilities will include a learning center pavilion, 200-seat theater and the USC Shoah Foundation’s Dimensions in Testimony exhibit — a collection of 3D interactive genocide survivor testimonies. The expanded campus also will include outdoor reflective spaces, a 2,500-square-foot special exhibit space and a new pavilion — built on top of the original — to house an authentic boxcar found outside a death camp in Poland.

While Belzberg’s father es- caped from Poland in 1932, the architect subsequently lost family members in the Holocaust. Belzberg will be interviewed

Clay LA takes place at Craft

Contemporary on April 1, 2

All things clay will be offered at CLAY LA, Sat., April 1, from noon to 5 p.m. and Sun., April 2, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Craft Contemporary, 5814 Wilshire Blvd. Meet ceramic makers in the Los Angeles area, shop and take part in hands-on activities. Make your own keepsake at an air-dry clay activity offered both days from 1 to 3:30 p.m. by Goldin, an architecture critic and author, who is working on his new book, “The Phaidon Atlas of Never

The annual sale and fundraiser showcases emerging and established ceramic makers. The event is free with museum admission, except for a ticketed preview breakfast. Visit craftcontemporary.org for more information.

Built Architecture,” to be released in the fall. Goldin also is the president of the Miracle Mile Residential Association.

Block party on Bronson, April 29

A Larchmont-wide block party, organized by the Larchmont Village Neighborhood Association, will take place on Sat., April 29.

The event on the 500 block of North Bronson Avenue, will feature food trucks, live music, an egg toss, face painting, water play, arts and crafts, tarot card readings, a bike and scooter course, local businesses and vendors and more.

Stop by between noon and 5 p.m. to attend. For more information, email annieorourke@ gmail.com. A GoFundMe page has been set up in conjunction with the party. All proceeds will go to Alexandria House, a transitional home for women and children. Visit gofund.me/55fb404d.

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Titanic exhibit sails to Beverly Boulevard venue

By Casey Russell

Having sold out in Macau, Moscow, Riga, Latvia, Perth and Sydney, “Titanic: The Exhibition” has landed in Los Angeles.

This immersive, interactive tour includes recreations of the ill-fated ship’s interior and exterior, hundreds of artifacts from the White Star Line (Titanic being one of the company’s ships) and props and costumes from James Cameron’s Oscar-winning “Titanic” movie.

A visit to the exhibit becomes personal as each patron receives a boarding pass and takes on the name of a real-life passenger allowing the discovery of individual stories. Visitors can take part in a virtual reality experience that dives four kilometers beneath the ocean to see the wreckage of the iconic ship.

TITANIC: THE EXHIBITION is in Los Angeles.

A visit to the exhibit, located at 4327 Beverly Blvd., at Kingsley Drive, can be expected to take about an hour.

Adult tickets start at $29.50.

The exhibit’s run may be extended, but to reserve tickets through the official closing date of April 16, visit feverup. com/m/119839.

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• Flashlights with extra batteries

• First-aid kit

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• Dust masks and gloves

• Plastic sheeting and duct tape

• Basic tool kit with gas shut-off wrench

• Multi-tool or pocketknife (with can opener)

• Fire Extinguisher & matches

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Modernism on tour April 22, 23

Barbara Bestor to renovate the property, which boasts expansive views of the city.

For tickets and more information, visit usmodernist. org/la.

Benefitting nonprofit USModernist, America’s largest open resource for Modernist architecture, the weekend event takes place April 22-23.

An opening night cocktail party is at the Harvey House on Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m.

Designed by Lautner in 1950, the Harvey House is now owned by actress Kelly Lynch and producer Mitch Glazer, who restored the house with Lautner principal architect Helena Arahuete.

Timed tours are on Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. at the Silvertop residence.

310-652-0123 • 8914 Santa Monica Boulevard between San Vicente and Robertson in West Hollywood

Call 310-652-0123 • At 8914 Santa Monica Blvd. (between San Vicente & Robertson in West Hollywood)

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Silvertop was designed by Lautner and built by Wally Niewiadomski, but sat unfinished for a decade until, in 1974, Jacklyn and Phillip Burchill engaged Lautner to complete it. In 2014, new owners of the iconic house tapped architect

Local artist’s work on view at TAG, The Artists Gallery

Local artist Melinda McLeod of South Sycamore Avenue is having her artwork displayed at TAG, The Artists Gallery, 5854 Wilshire Blvd. The exhibit begins Wed., April 5, and continues through Wed., April 28.

The show, titled “Girl Gets Around,” was inspired by the artist’s walks with her two dogs around her Miracle Mile North neighborhood and in Hancock Park. McLeod is passionate about bulls, which are prominently featured in her very colorful paintings.

On Preservation

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Andrew’s Pl., designed by the first woman to become a registered architect in Los Angeles, Edith Northman. This trend would intensify in the ensuing decades until entire neighborhoods bordering Western had been transformed by apartment buildings. Today between Beverly and Third, about 50 percent of the buildings are multifamily.

While having changed significantly from its original single-family craftsman character, the “Places” still contain a wealth of historic resources — from the Wilton Historic District, along with its six individually designated City of Los Angeles Historic Cultural Monuments (HCMs), to the collection of other HCMs along the “Places.” Those include the Ganahl House by A.C. Martin (1913); the J.A. Howsley House by Henry J. Knauer (1914); as well as the B.H. Hiss House (1916) and the Borgmeyer Residence (1912). To these we now add the Sur- veyLA-identified St. Andrew’s Place Residential Historic District, described as a “significant concentration of Arts and Crafts residential architecture in the Wilshire area, with high quality design and craftsmanship conveyed by individual homes.”

The gallery is hosting a free reception on Sat., April 15, from 5 to 8 p.m.

Also, a Gramercy Place – St.

Andrew’s Place Residential Historic District is an “excellent example of early 20th century streetcar suburbanization in the Wilshire area, developed due to its proximity to streetcar lines that historically served the area.”

Preservation of this area would be difficult under any scenario. As long as the city continues to act as if Historic Preservation Overlay

Zones (HPOZs) run afoul of 2019’s State Senate Bill 330, preservation protections are not currently an option. As with my previous suggestion about Ridgewood Place, it would be optimal to add the Gramercy Place – St.

Andrew’s Place Residential Historic District to the Wilton Place Historic District because they share a common border, similar periods of significance and development patterns. The small St. Andrew’s District would either require revisiting its boundaries and contributors to make it also contiguous with Wilton Place or be its own mini-district. But as its stands now, the easiest way to add some level of preservation would be the creation of two National Register or California State Districts, or a combination of the two. This is part of a series on neighborhood areas deserving historic preservation status.

“Maya: The Exhibition” opens Sun., April 2 at the California Science Center, 700 Exposition Park Dr.

This interactive exhibit highlights the rise and fall of the ancient civilization through artifacts and science exhibits.

Included are a 9-foot sculpture of a warrior wearing a jaguar mask, other ornate masks and additional notable artifacts. Visitors will get the chance to decipher hieroglyphs, touch replicas of artifacts on display and watch “Mystery of the Maya,” an IMAX movie that takes viewers on a trip through Maya culture and history.

The 24th annual Discovery Ball is Sat., April 1. Be among the first to journey the Mayan exhibit, and be among the last to see the Endeavor space shuttle at its current location. For more information, visit californiasciencecenter.org.