The Los Angeles Central Library’s landscape design and restoration is based on Goodhue’s original design of a grand allee of Italian Cypress and Victorian Box with planting beds, paths and plants situated to complement the building masses. Redesigned over a parking structure, the main axis and allee incorporates a series of pools and deeply scored, patterned paving, which accentuate the main central axis. Informal paths, low seating walls and benches wind through layers of lawn, evergreen and flowering trees and shrubs of various hues and textures, providing an informal shaded park in the midst of the city. Today, the plaza remains a quiet and comfortable, thriving oasis to gather in the city center.
Los Angeles Central Library Expansion
