Architecture

Forget saving the Hollywood sign *

By Kevin Roderick | April 30, 2010 4:10 PM

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Instead of preserving the Hollywood sign in its static condition as a legally condoned supergraphic, why not embrace its inner hotel potential? From a Danish architectural design in Core 77 magazine. So what if the scale is more than a little off.

* Noted: The Daily News' Susan Abram had a feature on this back on April 12.


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