The Getty Centre, Los Angeles

There are few 'free rides' in the museum/art gallery/famous building on the world scene as they have now become reliant on pay on the door customers, The Ashmoleum in Oxford is another refreshing example, but the Getty, with its large collection including significant works and a building whose design is a masterclass of pure control, is a free ride par example.
True it costs $15 to park the car, but you do get a ride on the tram up the hill.
The massing in places reminded me of both the Alhambra in Granada and Castle Drogo (by Lutyens) on the edge of Dartmoor but it is the sheer control of the detail design that is quite awe inspiring. There are a couple of areas where the grid pattern clashes with grids attached to a circular devise like the entrance rotunda, and there are places of liitle idioscracies where instead of the regular square grid of the stone façade is sub divided instead by an angle cut...spot it if you can!
All in all a short visit but well worth the drive over from Venice Beach.

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