Over 300 artists have been commissioned for Metro projects since the Metro Art Department was established in 1989.
A couple of years ago, I attended one of the LA Metro Art Tours. The two hour tours are led by volunteer docents and offered the first Thursday, Saturday and Sunday of every month. Included with the tour is a free rail day pass.
The Douglas/Rosecrans Station was designed by Renée Petropoulos from Escudero-Fribourg Architects.
Petropoulos said, People who use this station are daily commuters who work in this area. I wanted the various aspects of this station to reveal themselves over time, for the station to be experienced as a giant art piece in which the understanding of the whole is reached through daily encounters with each of its elements. I chose to focus on the idea of location—places that identify you in terms of where you are in the city, in the country, in the world—including psychological location. I wanted to pose some questions about monuments or markers as identifiers, including seeing the station as a possible landmark.
When we felt like we couldn't climb another step, we headed to the parking lot to start our intervals. We skipped the brisk walk warm-up since we did the stairs and repeated the Week One schedule with 60 seconds of running and 90 seconds of walking.
impressive workout!
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Oh those stairs are incredible!!!
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very cool! i love the words going up the steps.
ReplyDeleteI love the writing on the stairs! Very nice.
ReplyDeleteWOW, stair workouts are my least favorite form of torture!! Way to go!
ReplyDeleteThose stairs are awesome! I did some stair training for my upcoming mountain race. I hope it helps!
ReplyDeleteI hate stairs, I usually fall down them.
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