The Triforium originally synchronized its lights to a 79-bell carillon that was removed long ago. Later, the lights were abandoned, and tape-recorded music occasionally played on its speakers.

DTLA -The Triforium was never supposed to wind up this way. [Get DTLA stories in our daily email newsletter.] Created in 1975 by artist Joseph Young, it was intended to illuminate and enliven the ...

A cosmic homing beacon is just one of the many failed ambitions of downtown LA’s massive Triforium, a 60-ton boondoggle that has befuddled observers for almost 50 years.

Trio of entrepreneurial activists receives $100,000 grant to revive downtown L.A.'s much-maligned Triforium, a 1970s public sculpture that used to light up and play music. News.

In this Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017, photo members of the Triforium project, from left, Tom Carroll, Claire Evans, Jona Bechtolt, and Tanner Blackman, pose for a photo with Joseph L. Young’s ...

LOS ANGELES – For 40 years, Joseph Young festooned public buildings, open spaces and private places across his adopted city of Los Angeles with dozens of brilliant, colorful mosaics, larger-t… ...

The Triforium Project begins with a 40th-anniversary celebration of the sculpture on December 11, with live music, free tours of the sculpture’s control room, ...

L.A.'s greatest embodiment of the love/hate relationship is, without, question, the Triforium, a six story-tall, light-up, motion-sensing, musical sculpture that was built in 1975 by artist Joseph ...

Standing six stories tall and weighing 60 tons, the Triforium sits on the the corner of Temple and Main Street in Downtown L.A. It's in severe disrepair — how did it get this bad?

Downtown lore has it that a peeved judge in the U.S. Federal Courthouse hammered the final nail in the coffin of the public artwork known as the Triforium. The story ...

The space-age Triforium sculpture in Downtown Los Angeles was mocked at its 1970s unveiling. But on three recent Friday nights, it has drawn crowds that filled Fletcher Bowron Square.

For 43 years, the hulking monument of concrete and colored glass known as the Triforium has towered over Fletcher Bowron Square in downtown Los Angeles, an object of apathy once the mockery had ...