Mall Meandering: Los Angeles Mall | Downtown Los Angeles, CA

The Los Angeles Mall is a small shopping center and series of plazas (public squares) at the Los Angeles Civic Center, between Main and Los Angeles Streets on the north and south sides of Temple Street, connected by both a pedestrian bridge and a tunnel. It features Joseph Young's sculpture Triforium, a colorful sculpture unveiled in 1975, which has with 1,500 blown-glass prisms synchronized to an electronic glass bell carillon. The mall opened in 1974 and includes a four-level parking garage with 2,400 spaces. It stands on the site of what once were some of the oldest commercial blocks in the city that were demolished in the 1940s and 1950s.

The mall was designed by architectural firm Stanton & Stockwell, which also designed the Los Angeles County Courthouse and Kenneth Hahn L.A. County Hall of Administration. It was conceived as a "town square" for meetings, retail, public institutions and public art, serving the general public and the tens of thousands of government employees working at the Civic Center's municipal, state and federal buildings. Cornell, Bridgers, Troller and Hazlett were the landscape designers.

By the mid-1980s, the mall was already considered, due to lack of maintenance, an "embarrassment" and there was discussion whether the Children's Museum should take over the entire mall. The Children's Museum moved to another location around 2000. Many people experiencing homelessness make use of the space and plans from 2018 included one to convert the space to housing for those currently homeless. In the late 2010s the homeless population increased in the area, causing a decrease in the use of public areas by the general population.
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