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Beverly Center teases renovations with flashy art

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The Beverly Center is getting sassy in a bid to mask ongoing construction related to its renovations.

Taubman Centers, the mall owner, has debuted an edgy mural on the side of the building by Los Angeles-based artist Geoff McFetridge. It depicts a flashing girl, who lifts up her blue skirt to the world. But motorists needn’t avert their gazes, since she’s facing away.

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Taubman said the design “”evokes the open and civic spirit of Beverly Center’s reimagining — itself, a kind of lifting of skirts,” Curbed reported.

The famed Brutalist-style Beverly Center is currently undergoing a major  $500 million renovation, which includes a new facade and floorplan. The work is slated to be completed by 2017.

“Our scope of work was to give it light and a new quality of space,” the project’s architect, Massimiliano Fuksas, told The Real Deal last month. [Curbed] — Cathaleen Chen