HAVER & BOECKER

"Located on Main Street, just south of City Hall, this facility will provide parking, a mechanics garage, and a fueling station for the Los Angeles Police Department's new headquarters.

A series of undulating metal mesh screens are intended to veil the building, while simultaneously providing security and allowing the structure to breathe.   To enliven the sidewalk, a freestanding structure at the building's base will include a non-profit art gallery, or some other arts-related organization.  Contributing to the transformation of this area as a home to the arts, this element will help form a link between Gallery Row, located near 5th and Main, and the planned Arts Park, adjacent to MOCA's Temporary Contemporary."

John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects

To spice up the LAPD MTD+MSP Parking Garage JFAK Architects opted to create a unique facade made from woven wire mesh. Additionally the imaginary facade concept showed a leaf design and an undulating shape.

Together with our US subsidiary W.S. Tyler, Haver & Boecker was first faced with these tasks by the architect in the summer of 2005. Almost exactly four years later 49 wire mesh panels for a total quantity of just under 1300 m² were installed.