Major high-rise developments are razing the architectural past of Los Angeles at a rapid rate, says the production designer behind the 1960s sets of Quentin Tarantino's movie, Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood.
Production designer Barbara Ling said that creating the sets for the summer blockbuster highlighted the fast pace of development in the city.
"Los Angeles has always been a city ever transforming itself," Ling told Dezeen in an interview. "We've never held on to the past. With every year that goes by, we tear down more of the previous year. " "Even as fast as we could build and shoot this film, things were being torn down around us with high-rises, and glass and steel buildings going up in their place," the Angeleno added.
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