Light Years

By Shannon Donnelly

Is there anything that better encompasses the crossroads at which contemporary Los Angeles finds itself than the internal struggles of the Department of Water and Power? Caught between past and future, dark ages and enlightenment, monolith and whimsy, fighting against self-containment, rigid, yet groping toward a new vision.

Hyperion Treatment Plant, 12000 Vista Del Mar, Playa del Rey

John Ferraro Building, 111 N. Hope St., Los Angeles

John Ferraro Building, 111 N. Hope St., Los Angeles

5752 S. Figueroa St., Los Angeles

1394 S. Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles

1394 S. Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles

Stone Canyon Water Filtration Plant, Stone Canyon Road, Bel-Air

This article was originally published in Slake No. 1. To read all of the stories from that issue, purchase or subscribe at shop.slake.la.