The Getty Center
Stunning architecture here at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California. Designed by architect Richard Meier and opened in 1997, the building is the current home of the J. Paul Getty Museum which exists to collect and exhibit classical and European works of art. The complex has a seven-story-deep underground parking garage with over 2,000 parking spaces, and while the museum itelf is free to visit, the parking costs 7 dollars…
To get a better taste of the collection you could visit the official site, and for ground-level photographs check out the Wikipedia page.
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Have the google earth links been taken down again?
waaaaw just what I needed to enjoy more my recently discovered adiction to google earth! thanks!!!!
cool site!
From the current issue of Time Magazine:
Now the Getty is getting attention for the kinds of spending that museums don’t brag about. Next month, the trial of former antiquities curator, Marion True, resumes in Italy on charges that she helped the museum buy 42 illegally looted Roman and Etruscan artifacts. True has denied the allegations, but last week she resigned after the revelation that a dealer involved in some of the purchases helped her get a loan for a vacation home in Greece. Critics of the museum say her case is a symptom of a culture of mismanagement and excess, in which the head of the museum’s trust allegedly used the institution as a piggy bank to, among other things, buy himself a $72,000 car.
the parking garage is not actually under the museum but down the hill here:http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.087711,-118.475683&spn=0.004660,0.006809&t=k&hl=en
a tram runs between the garage and the museum, since the roads that lead up there are not open to the public. like the museum, the tram is free.
Nothing to do with the Getty but just to the south must be the most urban airport i’ve seen.You can only presume it was there long before the urban sprawl was but i’m amazed it gets away with being so close to a built up area.
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
northern git, that’s quite the cool airport. It reminds me of my favorite airport of all, Chicago’s Midway:
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
It feels like you are landing on somebody’s house when making that final approach…
Re. Midway
I have one word – blimey!
Its not that you dont have loads of space to build a new airport and you dont mind driving for hours to get anywhere. I suppose if you closed it down you could build a massive stadium and an even bigger parking lot in its place.
That Midway shot is amazing – could spend all day exploring it.
Yay, one of my suggestions got published! The hill that Getty sits on looks especially cool in 3D with Google Earth, but since the buildings aren’t modeled, they just look like they’re painted on the hillside.
That’s the Santa Monica Airport. It’s only used for small planes; no commercial aircraft.