CITY NATIONAL PLAZA

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City National Towers

Los Angeles, California

During the day the Interactive Ring sits in the plaza between the twin towers; at night it rises slowly to 150 meters above the plaza. The ring changes color and intensity in response to activity along a circular paving in the plaza below. Proposal only, 2006.
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source: electroland
Electroland LLC was founded in 2001 by Principal Cameron McNall and Partner Damon Seeley. The work of Electroland has received wide notice for its conceptual strength and originality, and has been featured at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum Triennial in New York.
Principal Cameron McNall is an architect. He received a Master of Architecture from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 1985 and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Design from UCLA in 1978. In architecture he received the Rome Prize in Architecture, two AIA Brunner Grants, a New York Foundation for the Arts Architecture Fellowship, and the Young Architect Award of Architectural League of New York. As a sculptor and installation artist he was awarded the City of Los Angeles COLA Fellowship, the California Arts Council New Genres Fellowship, the Augustus Saint-Gaudens Sculpture Fellowship, the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture, and the PS#1 Studio Artist Fellowship. His films have been shown in more than thirteen countries in over thirty festivals and have received many prestigious awards.
Damon Seeley has broad experience as an art director, interaction designer, technical director and producer for design and media-arts projects. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Design and Media Arts from UCLA. Prior to Electroland, Seeley worked with Rebecca Allen on the Emergence Virtual World project at UCLA with George Legrady on projects at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and the Siemens Cultural Program in Munich, Germany.