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Old Posted Apr 27, 2017, 3:50 PM
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All I can say is that this better allow for the eventual demolition of the monstrosities flanking Grand Park.

And I really hope that they don't commission either Gensler or Gehry.
Phew... TCA is still in the hunt!
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Figueroa Centre proposed 66 story, 975-foot tower! This will actually look taller than Wilshire Grand!



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I really like this tower. People may harp at the podium but at least it'll be built in a way that there will be plenty of room for other towers. So I suspect that this will be a relatively thin tower.
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I really like this tower. People may harp at the podium but at least it'll be built in a way that there will be plenty of room for other towers. So I suspect that this will be a relatively thin tower.
Nice!
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With that tower being built and the car wash site also building the tower.. the Hotel Figueroa sign will be blocked :/ you think they can move it so that the sign faces Figueroa?
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With that tower being built and the car wash site also building the tower.. the Hotel Figueroa sign will be blocked :/ you think they can move it so that the sign faces Figueroa?
It's not a sign, the ads you see are painted directly on the walls of the hotel
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Phew... TCA is still in the hunt!
LOHA would be ideal.
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It's not a sign, the ads you see are painted directly on the walls of the hotel
The neon letters on top of the building, not the triple wall billboard. Although that too is somewhat a shame to see go, as it's the only billboard that actually adds character to the city.
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The neon letters on top of the building, not the triple wall billboard. Although that too is somewhat a shame to see go, as it's the only billboard that actually adds character to the city.
What?! That beer bottle on the JW Marriot/Ritz adds a ton of character!
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What?! That beer bottle on the JW Marriot/Ritz adds a ton of character!
I was thinking the same thing. Lol
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Old Posted Apr 27, 2017, 10:39 PM
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What?! That beer bottle on the JW Marriot/Ritz adds a ton of character!
Somehow the coke bottle just adds more sterility to the Ritz itself. Hotel Fig does what LA Live wishes it could do in terms of advertising, because it effectively becomes a platform for the city itself. The Grand Theft Auto hand-painted triptych ad-as-wall-mural added to the E3 convention vibe while being an effective visual consumer grab. It's the greatest and likely last platforms in LA for hand-painted ads. Though whatever eventually blocks it may be worth ridding the city of the car wash.
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Somehow the coke bottle just adds more sterility to the Ritz itself. Hotel Fig does what LA Live wishes it could do in terms of advertising, because it effectively becomes a platform for the city itself. The Grand Theft Auto hand-painted triptych ad-as-wall-mural added to the E3 convention vibe while being an effective visual consumer grab. It's the greatest and likely last platforms in LA for hand-painted ads. Though whatever eventually blocks it may be worth ridding the city of the car wash.
http://audiovision.scpr.org/293/the-...of-los-angeles
There's a building in Westwood on Wilshire that has by law only hand painted advertisements. Always fun to see them go up.
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LOHA would be ideal.
LOHA doesn't design skyscrapers.

I was thinking more along the lines of UN Studio, OMA, Foster, and Calatrava.
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Just to illustrate my previous posts today, THIS is a substantial tower that is striking and commanding. It would dominate the southern end of the skyline.

Best part is...if built... each of the city's tallest would not interfere with each other. Each presides over its portion of the skyline, the way in Chicago the Sears, Hancock, Aon, and T*^#p Towers do.
Love it
There are things I don't like about our current LA city zoning code but This is the benefit our zoning code provides with regards to air rights.
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LOHA doesn't design skyscrapers.

I was thinking more along the lines of UN Studio, OMA, Foster, and Calatrava.
there can always be a first.
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All I can say is that this better allow for the eventual demolition of the monstrosities flanking Grand Park.
What would be great would be if the new towers were expanded to fit ALL the office space along Grand Park, then the lots along grand park were sold to developers and replaced with 40 story apartment towers with retail.
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LOHA may not design skyscrapers, but looks like they have some sort of highrise proposal listed on their site:

http://loharchitects.com/work/market-district

Looks cool, wonder how serious it is.
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^ Yeah, I saw that. I would certainly take LOHA over Gensler or Gehry.
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And speaking of LOHA, their project "Industrial" is back on the radar and moving forward, according to Urbanize. The Arts District is absolutely kicking ass with all these proposed developments.





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Took a long overdue trip to Downtown today. Got an update for you guys.

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I also went to the newly opened hotel indigo. It has some pretty good views of the projects in the area. Excuse the quality, I used my mobile and I had to shoot through glass.









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Old Posted Apr 29, 2017, 7:27 AM
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Took a long overdue trip to Downtown today. Got an update for you guys.
this article fits in nicely with your very welcome set of pics......


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Downtown Los Angeles Is America's Most Colorful Neighborhood

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Los Angeles--For those who love navigating cities by foot, New York will always be America's main option. Los Angeles, despite being the densest urban area, never achieved this walkability, thanks to government efforts to socially engineer sprawl. But one Los Angeles neighborhood, at least, offers something more colorful--and arguably better--than anything else in the U.S. It is the city's downtown area, better known here to locals as "DTLA."

In some ways, DTLA's evolution into this rarefied air has been circular. During the city's initial pre-WWII growth era, downtown was the business and transit epicenter. It hollowed out substantially in following decades thanks to suburbanization, but since 1999, residential population has tripled to 60,000. DTLA has regained its cultural moxie amid this growth, with GQ calling the neighborhood, unto itself, "America's Next Great City."

The story behind this revival is, first and foremost, one of deregulation. According to Brady Westwater, a renowned local realtor and gadfly, the biggest measure was the city-approved adaptive reuse ordinance passed in that crucial year 1999.

But there is another quality to DTLA that transcends all this; the neighborhood has a quintessentially "Los Angeles" feel that is too ambiguous to describe for readers, but that suggests how more of the city might function if it were ever allowed to urbanize.

One driver of this quirky exceptionalism, said Westwater, is the number of major institutions--formal and de facto--that are clustered within DTLA so closely, yet are so radically different from each other.

“We have more things that are important in an urban sense within walking distance than any city in the world,” he said.

Meander through the 8.6-square-mile neighborhood, and one will encounter, in no particular order, the following: a high-rise Financial District; an Arts District loaded with galleries; a Fashion District; a Chinatown; a Little Tokyo; a Korean area; a Mexican Town; a Union Station; a major covered street food collective called Grand Central Market; a Civic Center that has the highest concentration of government employees outside of Washington, DC; an additional arts district along Bunker Hill featuring venues of a more institutional nature, like the Broad Museum; an entertainment district that includes a stadium and convention center; Grand Park LA; and the list goes on.

“I could count 40 different major government, civic and business functions that are all within walking distance here,” said Westwater. In New York and other major cities, meanwhile, it would take days to access a similar number of equally-prominent institutions, given their distance apart.

The city at large has never really been appreciated for its artistic culture; in fact, this seems to fuel stereotypes about it being a land of flaky half-acquaintances and blonde bimbos. But make no mistake—Los Angeles is a cosmopolitan global crossroads for film, fashion, photography, painting, graphic design and music, with more artists per capita than every major metro except New York and San Francisco. The trends that start in Los Angeles get consumed worldwide, from the movies people watch in Madrid to the Top 40 radio heard in Wichita

At street level, this artistic ecosystem achieves somewhat sterile dimensions in Hollywood and Burbank. But its most unruly aspects have flooded downhill and into DTLA. Go there on a Friday night, and it is a Bacchanalian mixture of drugs, upscale whiskey, music, color and noise. Many of the people here look like artworks unto themselves, with a mixture of tattoos, piercings and wacky hairdos that render them the mini hipster versions of Dennis Rodman.

The fact that these types, and all the other above-mentioned ones, swarm throughout DTLA, amid an urban design motif that is a combo of opulent, grimy, ghetto fabulous and radical chic, gives the entire neighborhood a surreal quality.

So what, exactly, is DTLA's secret sauce? It is diversity, in the broad sense.

Downtown Los Angeles achieves this diversity more than any American neighborhood. It has diversity of building types, with corporate skyscrapers abutting mid-rise historic structures abutting small factories. It has diversity of uses, with grandiose civic institutions next to dingy bars where you'd sooner find a modern-day Bukowski. And it has a diversity of people, from across the world and every income range.
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