page_title: Hollywood/Highland station
section_title: Design and architecture
hierarchical_section_title: Hollywood/Highland station / Station layout / Design and architecture
caption_attribution_description: Headhouse of the Hollywood/Highland LACMTA station in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California at night in 2016.
context_page_description: Hollywood/Highland is a heavy rail subway station in the Los Angeles County Metro Rail system. It is located at the intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. This station is served by the B Line.
  With its entrance on Hollywood Boulevard, the Hollywood/Highland Station is located in the center of the tourist area of Hollywood, near such tourist attractions as Dolby Theatre, Ripley's Believe It or Not! and the Hollywood Museum. As in New York City's Times Square, costumed characters on the sidewalk outside offer themselves for photos with tourists.
context_section_description: The construction designing of the station were teamed up by three different firms. The designer of the station is Sheila Klein, and the constructor of the station is CannonDesign. The lightings, materials, and the mechanical design's responsibility were given to HLB Lighting Design.
  The construction of the station were to be made of equipments given by the Metro, which according to HLB, made it challenging. The lighting pillars of the station was to resemble like a flower, and it was carefully sized to match well with the smooth, curved ceiling which 'resembled a belly'. Sheila Klein named the architecture of the station, "Underground Girl".
caption: The station headhouse at night in 2016
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