A campanile in Culver City *

That Eric Owen Moss tower in the Hayden Tract in Culver City has been compared to a campanile, most recently by critic Christopher Hawthorne in today's L.A. Times. So awhile back, John Rabe of KPCC's "Off-Ramp" took the chef of Campanile, Mark Peel, up to the top to check out the view. Backstory

Also this: Moss has a speaking style "I'd call one part free association, one part surrealist poetry, one part Yogi Berra," says journalist Scott Timberg, who interviewed Moss in 2009. "One of the most innovative, influential and feared architects in the southland."