According to Michael Several, an authority on early public art projects in Los Angeles, the Triforium sculpture incorporated three two-legged concrete pillars, each supporting a bank of multicolored Venetian glass prisms (1,494 in all).

The public art piece rests on the previous location of the Bella Union Hotel, which itself has been cited as a potential site of the village of Yaanga.

[5] Unveiled with much fanfare at the opening of the Los Angeles Mall, the Triforium sculpture subsequently fell into disrepair and became the object of ridicule.

[6] Legend has it that a judge in the federal courthouse across the street claimed that the noise from the sculpture's sound system interfered with his trials and asked city officials to shut it down.

[9] After two years of upgrades,[12] a team of sound and light engineering firms created “The Triforium Project”[13] to sponsor and produce live musical performances,[14] (the latest in October and November 2018).