Tuesday, December 29, 2009

The Getty Center, Los Angeles

I love going to The Getty Center. Especially on a beautiful day. $15 for parking, then a hillside tram ride up to the Arrival Plaza:













Through the entrance hall, then into a pristine courtyard:













The Fran and Ray Stark Sculpture Terrace, and a sprawling view of Los Angeles beyond the hill:










The Research Institute building and Central Garden below:






















More of the chiseled, blindingly white architecture:






















Tucked in between some buildings, an urn-shaped fountain carved out of a wall: