{"id":3570,"date":"2016-08-17T20:37:39","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T20:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.severud.com\/?p=3570"},"modified":"2024-08-23T06:56:29","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T06:56:29","slug":"3570-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev70.fiveminutes.in\/severud\/news\/3570-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Forum Achieves a Turnaround"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by T.R. Witcher; ASCE Civil Engineering Magazine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>February 25, 2014<\/p>\n<p><em>Following years of disuse the venerable Los Angeles Forum has been given a new life with an upgraded roof structure and refinished interior. Its reopening was celebrated with a giant working turntable on its roof.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Built in 1967, the Forum in Los Angeles was famous as much for its innovative structural roof system as for the many unforgettable performers who dazzled the Los Angelinos beneath it. The \u201cShowtime Lakers\u201d of Magic Johnson won five NBA titles there during the 1980s, and legendary acts from Led Zeppelin to the Jackson 5 to Elvis Presley worked its stage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no question, the building is iconic,\u201d says Murray Beynon, a partner of BBB Architects in Toronto. \u201cAs we talked to people in L.A., it has almost a mythical status. They think it\u2019s a great building from a visual point of view and many have very special memories there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by T.R. Witcher; ASCE Civil Engineering Magazine February 25, 2014 Following years of disuse the venerable Los Angeles Forum has been given a new life with an upgraded roof structure and refinished interior. Its reopening was celebrated with a giant working turntable on its roof. Built in 1967, the Forum in Los Angeles was famous &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev70.fiveminutes.in\/severud\/news\/3570-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Los Angeles Forum Achieves a Turnaround&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev70.fiveminutes.in\/severud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev70.fiveminutes.in\/severud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev70.fiveminutes.in\/severud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev70.fiveminutes.in\/severud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev70.fiveminutes.in\/severud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3570"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/dev70.fiveminutes.in\/severud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3580,"href":"https:\/\/dev70.fiveminutes.in\/severud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570\/revisions\/3580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev70.fiveminutes.in\/severud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev70.fiveminutes.in\/severud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev70.fiveminutes.in\/severud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev70.fiveminutes.in\/severud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}