Comments on: The NoHo Gateway Is Here

By: nikkidipalma

nikkidipalma — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 04:56:33 +0000

I’ve lived here my entire life and I know the neighborhood, good and bad. It really is a neighborhood where you get to know everyone. That’s what makes it special, we got good peeps and some wackos thrown in the mix for fun. I, personally, take offense to the gateway for the aesthetic reasons stated above and on every other blog out there, but also because the artist really has no idea what our ‘hood is all about. We have about two dozen theaters here and I, along with all my actor friends, want to know where that is represented! OK, to be fair, it may be hard to have all the arts represented so why didn’t he go for something classic and simple? You all are right on, it is totally dated but it is also just a vomiting of the "artist’s" other pieces. So guys, what is our community supposed to do? Write blog entries and replies until we’re blue in the face?

By: How NoHo Gateway Got Approved | Los Angeles Metblogs

How NoHo Gateway Got Approved | Los Angeles Metblogs — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:19:54 +0000

[...] Gateway is up, it’s lit, and it already has its fair share of detractors. Metblogs’ own Jodi gave her review just a few days [...]

By: Chal Pivik

Chal Pivik — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:53:36 +0000

If you want to see some other crap Peter Shire "designed," do a google image search. It’s the part of the ’80s that no one wants to bring back.

By: Burns!

Burns! — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:40:22 +0000

Jeez. I wish someone had an opinion on this thing.

By: Lucinda Michele

Lucinda Michele — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:05:06 +0000

It looks like it belongs in a food court somewhere. So sad.

By: lamapnerd

lamapnerd — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:52:07 +0000

A tribute to behind-the-scenes workers in the film industry? Should have hired someone who knows how to light things. The night-time lighting is completely awful. You can hardly make out anything but the electric yellow-green superstructure – the lighting conceals more than it reveals, and glares in the eyes of the drivers below.

This really hideous.

NoHo’s 30-year-long redevelopment effort is just reaching its tipping point, starting to become something interesting, and it has great potential if the rest of the project ever gets finished. But this is a blight, a joke, an embarrassment – a sad waste of taxpayer dollars.

By: skramble

skramble — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:10:07 +0000

Yes, this thing is rather garish and awkward looking. Why is it that public art often seems aimed at the lowest common denominator? You’d think everyone in Noho was 8 years old by looking at this. And how was this design selected? I can’t imagine the design submission and selection process was open to very many artists. Too bad.

However, there is a solution!
Plant some vines around the base of the two supporting poles and within the structure. Then the vines will grow all over this monstrosity and make it into something pleasant. And replace that cheap looking "NoHo" with some more dignified type, that maybe even says the whole North Hollywood.

By: bunnicula

bunnicula — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 02:24:17 +0000

I usually avoid that whole stretch of Lankershim due to the killer intersection, but now I will have another reason to avoid it!

By: scott

scott — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 02:04:04 +0000

This reminds me of all the metal signage and light poles around Culver City, especially on Washington Blvd. I don’t care for either.

At least the ones in Culver City were probably installed closer to a time when that style of design might have been more current.

By: foodeater

foodeater — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 01:21:34 +0000

It’s hideous.
And crooked.
And when you approach it from the north heading south, "NoHo" is backwards.

I take the long way around up Vineland now just so I can avoid going under it… that’s how much I hate it. Why did Peter Shire come and take a big neon dookie on North Hollywood?