The Getty Center said its buildings are made of fire-resistant stone, concrete, and protected steel while its campus is surrounded by travertine plazas and well-irrigated landscaping designed to ...
Museum officials have previously said the collection is protected within the center's fireproof structure, made up of 300,000 travertine blocks and 12,500 tons of steel bars. "The Getty was ...
As fire officials issued evacuation orders for the Brentwood neighborhood on Friday night, the museum's collection remained safely inside the Getty Center's fortress of travertine stone ...
The Getty Villa, the Getty Center’s sister museum in Pacific ... Surrounding it are travertine plazas and well-irrigated landscaping designed to slow down the spread of fire.
“The Getty Center and Getty Villa remain safe from ... resistance into the billion-dollar complex,” including “thick travertine stone covering the outside walls, the crushed rock on the ...
Days later, ominous red clouds were visible from the Getty Center in Brentwood ... the campus has sprawling plazas made of fire-resistant travertine imported from Italy. Open spaces surround ...
The Brentwood Getty Center was put under an evacuation order ... Palisades neighborhood (AFP via Getty Images) The campus’s travertine plazas include extensive open space surrounding the ...
Even though the Getty Center is now under the mandatory evacuation zone as a result of the Palisades wildfire, the center says there's no other place where its priceless art collection could be safer.
The Getty Center and Villa, museums that house some ... in the safest place possible,” the article reads. The campus’s travertine plazas include extensive open space surrounding the buildings ...