Rob and Jo in the USA
Getty Center
The Getty Centre - made of about 300,000 pieces of travertine from a quarry near Rome
On the 16th of June, we visited the Getty Center, and it was just amazing. We spent the morning just looking around the outside and then the afternoon viewing just a small section of the inside.
One of the water features at the Getty Center
We went on a organised tour - free, which discussed the architecture and history of the buildings. We could spend another week there and not see it all.
It's a museum, and art gallery, a work of art in itself.
Even the car park was unusual - completely underground and 10 stories deep. Once out of the car park one alights a driverless train which takes visitors to the centre at the top of the hill.
George and Mary Walker, parents of our good friend Dave Walker in Adelaide, were stuck in Los Angeles for the day, so we took them. It worked out well as Jo and I had already planned to go, and George and Mary had never been there before and were interested in seeing it.