A garment factory in the warehouse district now runs some of LA's heaviest bills. 1720, at 1720 East 16th Street just west of Santa Fe Avenue in downtown Los Angeles, opened in late 2017 when a trio of local rock musicians converted the old factory into a multi-purpose, all-ages venue. Designer Brant Ritter kept the raw industrial shell - high ceilings, exposed pipes, steel beams, painted concrete, a Nick Knudson triptych mural on the wall - and dropped best-in-class sound and lighting into it. .....

Built in the corner of Exposition Park, a short walk from the Coliseum and the city's cluster of museums, BMO Stadium opened in April 2018 as the first new open-air stadium in Los Angeles since Dodger Stadium in 1962. Designed by Gensler as a soccer-specific ground, it holds about 22,000 spectators, with capacity rising toward 24,000 for concerts, and it serves as home to two professional clubs: Major League Soccer's Los Angeles FC and Angel City FC of the National Women's Soccer League. The de.....

America's first great Black LGBTQ+ discotheque still fills its dance floors on Pico Boulevard. Catch One - for 42 years Jewel's Catch One - occupies a 1925 Mediterranean Revival building at 4067 West Pico Boulevard in Arlington Heights, Los Angeles. Jewel Thais-Williams, a UCLA history graduate turned entrepreneur, opened the club in 1973 after being turned away from West Hollywood clubs for being Black and a woman; a state law then barred women from tending bar unless they owned the venue, so s.....

A defining feature of downtown Los Angeles, Crypto.com Arena is one of the busiest and most famous indoor arenas in the world. Opened in 1999 and known for most of its life as the Staples Center, the venue was renamed in 2021 but remains an unmistakable landmark of the city, anchoring the L.A. Live entertainment district and serving as the beating heart of professional sport in the region. The arena is remarkable for the sheer number of major teams it hosts, including the Lakers and Clippers in.....

Two Olympic Games have already played out on this ground, and a third arrives in 2028. Exposition Park, the 160-acre state-owned campus at 700 Exposition Park Drive in South Los Angeles, began life in 1872 as an agricultural fairground and was reborn between 1910 and 1913 as a City Beautiful ensemble of museum, armory and sunken rose garden - the cultural heart that grew into LA's densest concentration of museums and stadiums. The park's centrepiece is the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, opened .....

USC waited more than a century for this building. The Galen Center, at 3400 South Figueroa Street on the southeast corner of Figueroa and Jefferson across from the university campus, opened on 12 October 2006 - finally giving the Trojans an on-campus arena after decades of basketball played at the Shrine Auditorium, the Olympic Auditorium and, from 1959, the LA Memorial Sports Arena. The push that made it real began in 2002, when banker Louis Galen and his wife Helene started a series of gifts .....

It opened with rows of seats specially widened for patrons over 200 pounds, and its impresario filled the orchestra pit with foliage because he found intermission music intrusive. The Globe Theatre, at 740 South Broadway in downtown Los Angeles's Broadway Theater District, opened on 6 January 1913 as the Morosco Theatre - a Beaux-Arts playhouse built for producer Oliver Morosco inside the eleven-storey Garland Building. Designed by Morgan, Walls and Morgan with interiors by Alfred F. Rosenheim,.....

Dedicated to the history and craft of recorded music, the GRAMMY Museum opened in December 2008 at L.A. Live, the entertainment complex beside the arena in downtown Los Angeles. Created in partnership with the Recording Academy, the body behind the Grammy Awards, it spreads interactive galleries across several floors and celebrates music across every genre rather than any single style. The museum leans heavily on hands-on exhibits. Visitors can try their hand at singing, mixing and playing in i.....

A tornado tore off a third of the West Hall roof in 1983 - in Los Angeles - and the building did not cancel a single event. The Los Angeles Convention Center, at 1201 South Figueroa Street in downtown LA, has been the city's mega-event engine since 11 July 1971 and is now heading into a 2.6-billion-dollar expansion for the 2028 Olympics. The original hall was designed by Charles Luckman - architect of Madison Square Garden - on 35 acres of cleared land at the southwest corner of downtown, openi.....

It is the only stadium on earth to host two Olympics, two Super Bowls, a World Series and a papal Mass - with a third Olympics arriving in 2028. The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, at 3911 South Figueroa Street in Exposition Park, opened on 1 May 1923 as a memorial to World War I veterans and remains the monumental heart of Los Angeles sport. The build was civic ambition at speed: father-and-son architects John and Donald Parkinson - the team behind LA City Hall and Union Station - delivered the.....