As planes approach Los Angeles International Airport, Central Park at Playa Vista comes into view, just three miles from touchdown. The resulting 7.9-acre public park, privately maintained by Playa Capital, includes a basketball court, soccer field, playground, bosque, bocce courts, berm gardens, and a bandshell with an amphitheater lawn.Īerial panoramas provide an apt - and telling - introduction to the former site of Hughes’s airfield. Maltzan’s ideas - “bridges of program” connecting the surrounding office buildings and future development - convinced Playa Capital to hire him to design the park with landscape architect James Burnett. In the process, the master developer, Playa Capital, asked him to make studies for a park, part of the complex’s public open space requirements. Now partially complete, it will enfold the historic Hughes Aircraft buildings as movie-production facilities.īack in 2007, Michael Maltzan was hired to design two office buildings here (now on hold).
The final outcome: Hundreds of acres of wetlands will be protected, limiting the development parcel to 435 acres. Opposition from environmentalists over wetlands protection and other obstacles followed.
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In the 1990s, DreamWorks planned a movie studio, then pulled out.
After a single flight, the Goose was permanently grounded, but controversy over the 1,086-acre tract hovered for decades following Hughes’s death in 1976Ī series of developers, as early as 1978, tried to create a mixed-use, live-work community. Here, in the 1940s, Howard Hughes built a private airfield and his famous wooden “Spruce Goose,” an aircraft with the greatest wingspan in history. On land once inhabited by native Tongva people and, centuries later, by the Hughes Aircraft Company, the planned community of Playa Vista is gradually rising on Los Angeles’s West Side.
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