This building. Located at 8760 Sunset Blvd. was built in 1967 to house Dr. Robert A. Franklyn’s Beauty Pavilion, a plastic surgery clinic. It was designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer who lived until age 104 last year. It was originally painted white.
An article from 1968 in Sports Illustrated (because the Dr. was “a horse racing entrepreneur” states:
The doctor also has this thing about round buildings. "They appeal to me, I suppose, because a circle is such a clean thing," he says. Right now Franklyn has his surgery practice in a spectacularly attractive round building on Sunset Boulevard. He is the sole occupant and has named it The Beauty Pavilion. It was designed by the brilliant Brazilian architect, Oscar Niemeyer, who also designed part of the United Nations complex and the major buildings in Brasilia. Unfortunately, The Beauty Pavilion is located in a landscape of shamefully ugly urban rubble that is quite typical of Los Angeles—on one side, a hamburger joint named Alfie's [8768 Sunset] and, on the other, a mammoth black sign with a huge red neon message pushing Hav-A-Kar rentals for $4 a day and 4 cents a mile. Franklyn has planted a large evergreen tree in front of the sign, but it doesn't help much.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vau...0870/index.htm
Shamefully ugly urban rubble? Well, excuuuuuussssse meeeee...!
It’s now a recording studio known as Mutato Muzika and painted a brighter (!) color.
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There’s some parking available underneath it on one side from the back.
A scene from the series SOUTHLAND was filmed across the street. I believe the policeman is actor Michael Cudlitz.
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