The same mall where Tom Petty crooned the lyrics to Free Fallin’ and 1995 Clueless’s Cher donned a pastel-green minidress will be repurposed to facilitate groundbreaking research on biosciences, quantum science, and engineering. In Los Angeles, the Westside Pavilion will be transformed into a new UCLA Research Park, located two miles from the university’s Westwood campus. Architecture firm Flad will serve as executive architect for the phased adaptive reuse master plan.
The Westside Pavilion, designed by architect Jon Jerde, dates back to 1985, smack dab in the middle of the golden era of the American indoor mall. Starting in the early 21st century, the mall began
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