The Week of October 19, 2020 — The Day the Artist Rendering Came Down

The featured image is of the east elevation of the Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital Tower and Medical Center’s Adult Tower on the Dennis and Carol Trosch Medical Campus that overshadows the clover-leaf towers of that once rivaled the hill on which the Sanitarium once stood.

As the metric project nears near the end something new occurs on site that reminds me of recent history (is that an oxymoron?). I remember that on September 12, 2018, a laborer put up an artist rendering of the north elevation on the sound/security wall at the east delivery entrance off of Anderson Street. Although the project was in the “hanging iron” stage, the rendering gave the passerby a general idea of what the project would look like upon completion. At the time this event took place 2 years, 1 month, and 10 days ago, the structural steel rising above the eastern wall gave little resemblance to how the finished building appears today. So it came to pass that on the morning of October 19, 2020, 771 days after the artist rendering was hung, it was unceremoniously taken down.

September 12, 2018 – The Day the Artist Rendering Was Installed

October 19, 2020 – The Day the Artist Rendering Came Down