CALIFORNIA PLAZA "WATERCOURT"
Los Angeles, CA

Located amid major high-rise buildings, the California Plaza "Watercourt" is a series of outdoor performance stages and seating areas woven into an urban garden in downtown Los Angeles.  Many types of daytime and evening public performances are given here, and seating and stage areas can be converted into water pools and features between events. JVSA was theatre design consultant on the project. John von Szeliski has contributed planning and design for several larger amphitheatre projects of 4,000 to 16,000 seats. These include conceptual design for Shoreline amphitheatre on San Francisco Bay; feasibility studies for historic Santa Barbara Country Bowl, CA; and the proposed South Mountain Park Amphitheatre near Phoenix. He also completed a concept and master plan study for the Pennsylvania Arts Center.