Architecture Tours

 

LOS ANGELES IS A VIBRANT LABORATORY OF ARCHITECTURAL EXPERIMENTATION AND URBAN AMBITION.

CJA Creative Collaborations leads popular walking tours that highlight the complex layers and treasured landmarks of L.A.’s evolving downtown. Our lively three-hour programs reveal historical insights and contemporary connections that provide local residents and international visitors with redefined perspectives of the city’s eclectic built environment.

TOUR ITINERARIES

  • Tour Highlights:

    • Millennium Biltmore Hotel

    • Pershing Square

    • Title Guarantee Building

    • Angels Flight

    • Grand Central Market

    • St. Vibiana’s Cathedral

    • Caltrans District 7 Headquarters

    • Los Angeles Police Department Headquarters

    • Los Angeles City Hall

    • Gloria Molina Grand Park

    • Department of Water and Power Building

    • El Pueblo de Los Angeles

    • Olvera Street

    • Union Station

  • Tour Highlights:

    • Millennium Biltmore Hotel

    • Los Angeles Central Library

    • U.S. Bank Tower

    • Bunker Hill Steps

    • Bonaventure Hotel

    • Museum of Contemporary Art

    • Colburn School of Music

    • The Broad

    • Walt Disney Concert Hall

    • The Music Center of Los Angeles County

    • Gloria Molina Grand Park

    • Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angeles

  • Tour Highlights:

    • Millennium Biltmore Hotel

    • Pershing Square

    • Grand Central Market

    • Million Dollar Theatre

    • Bradbury Building

    • Broadway-Spring Arcade Building

    • Los Angeles Theatre

    • Tower Theatre

    • Eastern Columbia Building

    • Rialto Theatre

    • Orpheum Theatre

    • United Artist Theatre

    • Herald Examiner Building

    • Hoxton Hotel

    • Proper Hotel

TOUR PRICES

  • 1–7 people: $350

  • 8–20 people: $65 per person, including audio tour headsets

Please contact us to schedule your exploration of downtown Los Angeles!


julius shulman photographs:

Department of Water and Power Building, 1965. AC Martin and associates, 1964.

Saint Vibiana's Cathedral, 1977. Ezra F. Kysor, 1876. John C. Austin, 1922.

Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 1965. Welton Becket and Associates, 1965.

Los Angeles Central Library, 1969. Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue and Carleton Monroe Winslow, 1926.

Pico House hotel, 1981. Ezra F. Kysor, 1870.

Title Guarantee Building, 1980. John and Donald B. Parkinson, 1931.

Garnier Building, 1981. Abraham Edelman, 1890.

Bradbury Building, 1969. George H. Wyman, 1893.

Bonaventure Hotel, 1977. John Portman & Associates, 1977.

© J. Paul Getty Trust. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2004.R.10)