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The luxurious Hotel Inter-Continental was built in 1992. The hotel serves as headquarters for the annual Grammy Awards and Academy Awards, and artists performing at the Music Center often stay here. This is the hotel where the jury for the O. J. Simpson murder trial was sequestered for more than a year. The
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Next to the hotel facing Grand Avenue is the collection of geometric shapes, avant garde architectural styles and traditional materials that comprise the...
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MOCA's galleries are clad in a distinctive rough-cut red Indian sandstone and topped by pyramidal skylights. The galleries themselves are entered down a flight of stairs leading to a courtyard from where you can view the sensuous curve of the parapet above, which architect Arata Isozaki says was inspired by the dimensions of Marilyn Monroe. Isozaki calls it the "Monroe Curve." In L. A., Hollywood is everywhere, even in the design of parapets. Immediately north of MOCA is the newly-constructed Colburn School of Performing Arts. It was designed by the architectural firm of Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates. The Colburn School is sometimes referred to as "the Julliard of the West".
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MOCA 250 South Grand Avenue Tues. - Sun. 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (Free admission Thurs. 5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.) 
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Look to the north on Grand Avenue and you can see the world-famous Dorothy Chandler Pavilion at the Music Center and the future sites of the Disney Concert Hall and the Roman Catholic Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. Walk back toward Angels Flight and take the circular steps down to the spectacular...
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