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George Gershwin played a sheep pasture's concert hall in 1936; the pasture became UCLA. Royce Hall at 340 Royce Drive is the defining building of the university's Westwood campus - one of the original four structures of 1929, its twin-towered Lombard Romanesque facade modelled on Milan's Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio by architects Allison and Allison. The building opened as the campus's main classroom block with an auditorium designed for speech rather than music, yet by the late 1930s Duke Ellingt...