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Horton Plaza was a five-level outdoor shopping mall in downtown San Diego, California. It was designed by Jon Jerde and was known for its bright colors, architectural tricks, and odd spatial rhythms, occupying 6.5 city blocks adjacent to the city's historic Gaslamp Quarter.
24 Μαΐ 1990 · On August 30, 1890, in the most positive of his many contradictory declarations about the plaza, Horton stated his object in giving the plaza to the city was.
24 Σεπ 2019 · Horton Plaza Mall was once a vibrant shopping plaza and one of the catalysts that helped transform San Diego’s historic downtown into a bustling city center. Known for its unique and colorful architecture, this postmodern icon now sits almost abandoned with only a few stores remaining.
1 Οκτ 1974 · The Centennial Fourth of July was magnificently celebrated in San Diego, according to the San Diego Union of July 6, 1876: “At 5 o’clock the Silver Cornet Band announced the dawn of the Centennial Fourth of July by a medley of national airs from the cupola of Horton House. For the next two hours there was a carnival of noise, cannon, small ...
When it opened in 1985, the five-level Horton Plaza was a $140-million redevelopment project run by The Hahn Company. The architectural design of Jon Jerde (loosely based on an essay by sci-fi superstar Ray Bradbury) was radical and wildly asymmetrical.
22 Ιαν 2017 · Horton Plaza has a history as a central structure of retail commerce in the heart of San Diego. (Peggy Peattie / San Diego Union-Tribune) The late author Ray Bradbury imagined humans...
The Horton Plaza project represented a national trend in the 1970s and 1980s, centered upon bringing major retailing centers back down-town. The Gaslamp Quarter, in turn, was a byproduct of a national his-toric preservation movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. The creation of downtown nodes such as Horton Plaza and the Gaslamp Quar-
