LOS ANGELES | Downtown Project Rundown 6.0

[DJ1272]

Originally Posted by ChelseaFC

Would anybody be so kind as to post a picture of what that area looks like today for comparison?

[CaliNative]

Originally Posted by ChelseaFC

Has there been any thought given to stringing lights across more areas of the Historic Core? Drove through 4th and Main (Farmers and Merchants Bank and Hotel Barclay) last night and the lights strung across Main Street really added to the aesthetic and served to make the street seem narrower and more inviting and walkable.

I'm thinking in particular this would be a cool feature on various portions of Broadway and Spring Streets, especially when the Broadway Trade Center is complete.

https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0477...7i13312!8i6656

How about turning a street--Broadway perhaps?--into a pedestrian/bike/transit only street, maybe on weekends only? Could that work, as long as the cross & parallel streets could carry traffic?

[ChelseaFC]

Originally Posted by DJ1272

Would anybody be so kind as to post a picture of what that area looks like today for comparison?

This is from 2016, so no towers on Circa or Oceanwide yet.



The video in this link is from 2017, so you can pause it if you want to compare.

https://www.axiomimages.com/aerial-s...iew/AX0162_036

[citywatch]

^ one of the oldest bldgs in dtla, easily visible in photos going back decades taken before new devlpt started to surround it is the 3 wing bldg known to most ppl as the place whose 3 outer walls on the south have been covered with large ads for decades.....the bldg next to the car wash on Olympic blvd too.

The fig has been kind of an odd bldg & hotel....funky for most of the past yrs.....the previous owner turned it into a quirky disneyfied casblanca themed hotel. a bit off putting, but good for ppl in need of a less pricey alternative for a hotel rm in dt.



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[BillinGlendaleCA]

_3050011.jpg by BillinGlendaleCA, on Flickr

Several others have posted pics from this vantage point from previous years, this picture was take on Monday.

[Mojeda101]

Originally Posted by BillinGlendaleCA

_3050011.jpg by BillinGlendaleCA, on Flickr

Several others have posted pics from this vantage point from previous years, this picture was take on Monday.

Wow!! We're going to need new postcards! I hope Shenzens isn't dead so it could fill that little gap.

It's amazing how striking 820 and 1120 grand have made an impact.

[bhunsberger]

Originally Posted by BillinGlendaleCA

_3050011.jpg by BillinGlendaleCA, on Flickr

Several others have posted pics from this vantage point from previous years, this picture was take on Monday.

Shouldn't all the new towers be topping out soon? (Oceanwide, Onni, and Mack Urban)

[circuitfiend]

^^^

I believe they have all topped out, just working on their crowns now.

[WonderlandPark2]

Originally Posted by bhunsberger

Shouldn't all the new towers be topping out soon? (Oceanwide, Onni, and Mack Urban)

Those projects have topped out, but there are the other Onni towers, Hope and Flower are just a few floors up. Then there is 1133 S. Hope just coming out of the ground now, too.

[ocman]

https://www.timeout.com/los-angeles/...w-items-030918

Shake Shack officially opens today. Glad they’re here, but that corner is desperately asking for a high-rise.

[JerellO]

You think LA can do something similar?? I think it would be a great idea since LA has such a high number of homeless ppl

https://www.google.com/amp/www.sandi...story,amp.html

[DJM19]

I would say its almost imperative that any responsible homeless housing program is trying to identify family members willing to house their family.

[ocman]

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...312-story.html

The first time we discussed the new position in detail, I asked the mayor what success in the job might look like from his point of view. His answer was that we'd have done well if, at the end of my tenure, we'd begun producing better buildings and better public spaces but also discussing design in a more sophisticated and nuanced way in Los Angeles. We'd have innovative public spaces and new landmarks to point to — a superb skyscraper on its way up, an impressive public building by a dynamic young firm, street design that keeps pedestrians and cyclists from feeling like second-class citizens — but also a more robust dialogue about architecture and planning.

Christopher Hawthorne, architecture critic, is quitting LAT and taking a job with the city as chief design officer under Garcetti. If he's effective, we could finally be seeing some decent architecture and solutions to the podium issue in DTLA. He seems very self-aware of the challenges he's going to face. He clearly has the sensibility and education, but pursuasion, politics, NIMBY catering and getting through red tape is likely going to be the most challenging issue like all things in LA. Regardless, this seems like an urbanist dream job.

[CaliNative]

Originally Posted by ocman

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...312-story.html



Christopher Hawthorne, architecture critic, is quitting LAT and taking a job with the city as chief design officer under Garcetti. If he's effective, we could finally be seeing some decent architecture and solutions to the podium issue in DTLA. He seems very self-aware of the challenges he's going to face. He clearly has the sensibility and education, but pursuasion, politics, NIMBY catering and getting through red tape is likely going to be the most challenging issue like all things in LA. Regardless, this seems like an urbanist dream job.

Good luck to him. Hopefully the building boom will continue for a while so he can do some good. Steel tariffs, higher interest rates and Chinese disinvestment don't seem to help. Hopefully Hawthorne can push for more affordable housing that also has good design. Affordable and good design are not mutually exclusive. If he can discourage parking podiums and encourage more street level shops and activity, that will be good.

[CaliNative]

Originally Posted by ocman

https://www.timeout.com/los-angeles/...w-items-030918

Shake Shack officially opens today. Glad they’re here, but that corner is desperately asking for a high-rise.

Welcome Shake Shack, but in my opinion In'nOut burgers are just as good and 1/2 the price. But welcome.

[DJM19]

Originally Posted by ocman

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...312-story.html



Christopher Hawthorne, architecture critic, is quitting LAT and taking a job with the city as chief design officer under Garcetti. If he's effective, we could finally be seeing some decent architecture and solutions to the podium issue in DTLA. He seems very self-aware of the challenges he's going to face. He clearly has the sensibility and education, but pursuasion, politics, NIMBY catering and getting through red tape is likely going to be the most challenging issue like all things in LA. Regardless, this seems like an urbanist dream job.

Unfortunately, it seems the job is almost entirely about public buildings. Does not sound like has any sway over the private podiums going up. For that we need regulations.

[The Best Forumer]

Nice comparisons on the old pic and newer one.

[LosAngelesBeauty]

Shake Shack Finally Arrives in Downtown LA Historic Core

http://brighamyen.com/2018/03/12/sha...historic-core/

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[ocman]

Gehry was chosen to design the new Colburn School expansion. Disney Hall is DTLA's crown jewel, but Grand Ave is turning into Gehryland. At the same time, he's 89. So we may be getting among the last of his buildings before retirement.