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Constellation Place/MGM Corporate Headquarters, Century City, CA
T
he goal for this project was
seating areas in Century City. The con-
Valentina Murch, envisioned the area as a
to make the exterior envi-
ceptual premise was to make a totality of
canyon that had been carved by water
ronment of Constellation
experience that would read as a sequence
flows. She wished to reference, in an
Place not just a passageway,
of related elements that collectively lead
abstracted way, the fluidity and dynamic of
one through the passageway.
a natural canyon of Southern California.
but an inhabitable place for people to
experience. There are very few public
Metaphorically, the artist,Anna
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Shaw & Sons Hybrid Lithocrete® – Coral sand over white cement make up the hardscape and wall top finish.
Anna Valentina Murch, Artist • Esther Margulies, Mia Lehrer + Associates, Landscape Architects