Tarzan and Tarzana
Sandow Birk’s “Tarzan and Tarzana” for Tampa Station incorporates designs that relate to the town of Tarzana as named after Edgar Rice Burroughs’ most famous creation, Tarzan of the Apes.
Sandow Birk’s “Tarzan and Tarzana” for Tampa Station incorporates designs that relate to the town of Tarzana as named after Edgar Rice Burroughs’ most famous creation, Tarzan of the Apes.
Metro’s Purple (D Line) Extension is a three-part rail project that will begin at the intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and Western Avenue, extending westward for about 9 miles with seven new stations.
Warm highlights accentuate the principally blue, painted composition in which variously scaled figures stroll, dine, shop, and cycle among charmingly detailed architectural facades, signage, sidewalk planters, and street trees.
Sandow Birk’s artwork will depict a panorama of Los Angeles over 150 feet long focusing on the area around the future station and beyond. The scene spans millennia, as prehistoric creatures roam past historic and contemporary buildings such as the Wadsworth Chapel, the oldest building on Wilshire Blvd., the gates to the VA with the National Soldiers Home plaques, and the main hospital at the West LA VA Medical Center that was built in 1977.