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February 14, 2017

Ridiculed LA tower may get a face-lift

  • The space-age-looking pointy edifice stands six stories tall and is covered with 1,494 colorful lights that once blinked in time to music.
    • By JOHN ROGERS
    Associated Press

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    The creator had wanted it to contain lasers ricocheting light off surrounding buildings as ground sensors triggered music created by passers-by.

    LOS ANGELES — For 40 years, Joseph Young festooned public buildings, open spaces and private places across his adopted city of Los Angeles with dozens of brilliant, colorful mosaics, larger-than-life murals and towering sculptures.


     
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