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The original Forest Lawn Memorial Park, in the hills above Glendale, may be best known outside California for inspiring the sledgehammer satire of the 1965 cult comedy “The Loved One.” For tourists and curiosity-seekers, it’s the gonzo life’s work of Hubert Eaton, who memorialized himself as The Builder in the park’s every corner. For the families of the people interred there, though, it’s something more, and harder to joke away: A place of their own, green and quiet, and eternity-adjacent.

Take a video tour of Forest Lawn.

MUSIC:

• “Prelude No. 20,” by Chris Zabriskie
• “Locked Up,” by Scott Holmes
• “Pick Up The Tempo,” by Podington Bear
• “Glass Slipper,” by Podington Bear
• “Prelude No. 21,” by Chris Zabriskie
• “Ascending Light,” by Scott Holmes
• “Gentle Reminder,” by Blue Dot Sessions
• “Cylinder Six,” by Chris Zabriskie

The Builder

Thanks to Adam Papagan, Adrian Glick Kudler (whose excellent story “Los Angeles Is Killing Us” is here) and Elizabeth Harper.

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How will we live in 20 years? Or 50? Or 100? A one-of-a-kind, only-in-LA plot at the very end of Mulholland Highway inspired some of the world’s best designers to think hard about the home of the future, in Los Angeles and beyond.

MUSIC:

• “One More Time,” by Quincy Jones
•  Theme from “The Jetsons”
• “Hollywood Holiday,” by Frank Samuels
• “On A Wing,” by Podington Bear
• “Business Gateway,” by Scott Holmes
• “Oui,” By Podington Bear
• “Netherland,” by Podington Bear
• “Cylinder Three,” by Chris Zabriskie

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For more information about The Last House on Mulholland, visit the web site. 

There’s more information about The Ambivalent House here, and about the Hollywood competition here.

Photo: Steve Alper at the Last House site, May 2017

Rendering of The Ambivalent House by Hirsuta: Jason Payne, Michael Zimmerman, Joseph Giampietro & Ryosuke Imaeda

Special thanks to Steve Alper, Jason Payne and Nick Graham.