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Hollywood & Highland, Hollywood, CA
H
ollywood & Highland is at
the center of entertainment, dining, and nightlife
on one of the world’s most
famous streets. Hollywood & Highland is
home to the Kodak Theater, the permanent
home of the Academy Awards and many
other high profile televised events, as well
as being the second largest attraction for
visitors to Southern California. Since opening November 9, 2003, millions of people
have visited the Hollywood & Highland
entertainment complex, the first major
development in the current renaissance of
the Hollywood community.
Hollywood & Highland also includes
nightclubs, over 60 specialty shops, public
art exhibitions, six new movie screens at
the Mann Chinese Complex, seven of LA’s
finest restaurants, and the best photo
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spot of the Hollywood sign anywhere, all
surrounded by architecture designed to
mirror a 1916 classic movie set.
Because millions of people are exposed
each year to this landmark project, it was
essential that the specialty decorative
elements such as the concrete and
Lithocrete® provided by Shaw & Sons
were top notch. In addition, the massive
size and logistically challenging aspects of
the project required a professional and
cooperative team to integrate these elements into the overall construction fabric.
Of particular interest to the many
visitors to Hollywood and Highland is
“The Road to Hollywood” public art piece.
This element literally draws the public into
the project and captivates their interest all
the way to the ultimate view — the
“Once again, Shaw & Sons has contributed its expertise and craftsmanship to a complicated and
a challenging landmark project. Hollywood and Highland has to be one of the most difficult
undertakings in recent construction history, and it was pulled off to perfection by your firm. You
can be very proud of the results of your efforts. We look forward to continuing our relationship
with Shaw & Sons, which has been ongoing on similar high profile projects, for nearly a decade.”
Hollywood Sign. The decorative colored
concrete heralds the red carpet that anyone Jack Bousquet, Partner
can walk upon and feel like a star.
Bousquet Dennis & Associates
Real Estate Development Solutions
Steve Nakada and Elaine Nesbitt, Architects • Eurenkrantz Eckstut and Kuhn, Architects