On Monday, the giant claw of a large piece of machinery tore away at one of the walls of Parker Center, the former headquarters of the Los Angeles Police Department. Vacant since 2013, [Parker Center Tower] will be cleared out and a 27-story high-rise will take its place, holding offices for city employees and services that are now spread across multiple buildings. — LA Curbed
Los Angeles has an unfortunate history of erasing its not too-distant past, and it continues to show no mercy to the era of hard-edged modernism. Parker Center Tower, one such building the Downtown Los Angeles, is the most recent to suffer from the city's need to tear itself down and reimagine its future.
Completed in 1954, Parker Center Tower is one of the few modernist buildings Downtown. It was the official headquarters for the Los Angeles police department from 1954 until 2009, at which point the department moved into the sleek AECOM-designed building on First and Main.
The demolition of Parker Center Tower is an unfortunate reminder that, without the proper permitting, few buildings of significant architectural value are truly saved from the wrecking ball in Los Angeles.
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Beloved???? Clearly you do not live in L.A. No one loves parker center and most are overjoyed to see this lame, boring eyesore with a galling history torn down.
Beloved? Exactly who is it who you think loves that building? The only building I dislike more Downtown is the horrific Caltrans.
Beloved??? We should all be loved so!
I don't hate it as some do, but you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone claiming love for Parker Center.
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