JMF Development Co. [...] hopes to construct a 53-story tower on the vacant, L-shaped lot which wraps the historic structure. [...]
Arquitectonica is designing the proposed 784-foot-tall glass-and-steel tower, which is highlighted by a collection of cantilevered, glass-bottom pools for residents on the building's upper levels. While some of the protrusions would extend over the Pershing Square Building, none would hover above the public right-of-way.
— Urbanize LA
A rather dramatic example of the stacked-boxes scheme might go up at 5th and Hill, near Pershing Square, in Downtown Los Angeles soon.
Designed by Arquitectonica, JMF Development Co. proposes the 53-story tower with its fiercely protruding glass-bottom swimming pools as two potential options: few condominiums + hotel/restaurant if signs of a lurking next recession became clearer vs. plenty of condos + ground-floor retail space if the economic outlook stays strong.
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Something seems really off, and it's not only the perspective.
What, no trees on those infinitely thin cantilevers? pfffff.... amateurs.
the cantilevered swimming pools seem like a great place to ride out an earthquake.
Stacked boxes?! Deconstructing FORMS?!
Holy shit, FETCH THE PRITZKER.
^ best three-word catch-phrase of the year....
Death to subtlety!
Yes, but think of the blockbuster movies that Hollywood will set there! Possible titles:
Cantilevered Inferno
Glass Bottoms
Etc.
Glass Bottom Girls make the rockin' world go round.
Throw some man-eaters in those swimming pools and you've got Sharknado 7.
Obtuse approach to seismic design.
Projects like these are when we know the recession is coming.
the Jenga pixel trend is already dead. Architects like Holl, Berke, Ban, Shop doing much better stuff
behavior of water 101, bernardo......
"none ...of the protrusions... would hover above the public right-of-way."
Yes, because THAT'S the big issue here. Who writes this stuff?
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