Pershing Square has become one of Downtown LA's most maligned parks thanks to its abundance of concrete, '90s aesthetics and unsavory characters. Though a non-profit coalition has selected four finalists to redesign the park, another group thinks restoration is the answer.
Designer Arlen DeCambre, the great-great grandson of legendary LA architect John Parkinson, dug through original drawings for the park as it looked in 1910, when Parkinson had reworked the green space into one of its more memorable iterations. DeCambre rendered the lush park in 3-D and plopped it into the middle of modern day DTLA "to remind people what the park looked like and show them what it could look like again in the future."
You can watch a video of DeCambre's vision below, or take a virtual walkthrough of the space here.
