Plans for a skinny skyscraper with a clever diamond-paned exoskeleton has won rave reviews from city planning commissioners, who predict it might be beautiful enough to earn a spot as one of LA’s most iconic buildings. [...]
If it’s ever built, that is.
— Curbed LA
The proposal for Olympic Tower, a showy 57-story skyscraper near the Staples Center in Downtown Los Angeles, has been inching through the planning process for some time now, and as Curbed LA reports, has recently managed to wow the city's planning commission.
Designed by Nardi Associates, the proposed tower sports a steel exoskeleton which could open up the possibility for vertical gardens and an enormous 28-story atrium in the structure's midsection.
View this post on InstagramANNOUNCEMENT- OLYMPIC TOWER ADVISORY AGENCY PUBLIC HEARING AT LOS ANGELES CITY HALL ON AUGUST 28, 2019. We would like to share these great news on the unanimous approval of the Tentative Track Map and all Technical elements of our design by the Advisory Agency in a public Hearing format; the advisory panel as well as the attending public audience celebrated our design and they look forward to the construction of our project to be located at the corner of Olympic Blvd. and Figueroa St. , namely the Olympic Tower. After more than five years of arduous work on this project we finally see tangible results. More to come as information becomes available
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"The structural component is part of the architectural expression," explains the project description on the architects' website, "wrapping the building around its entire perimeter, eliminating interior columns at the free standing tower and culminating at the roof top with a structural trellis tying the vertical structural grid."
Olympic Tower joins a growing gaggle of flamboyant Downtown LA skyscraper proposals trying to outshine each other with cantilevered glass-bottom swimming pools, unusual shape, sheer size, record-setting height, or odd..um..everything.
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Hash tag fire resistive construction and separations in the atrium space!
"There’s always the possibility that the plans will die or development plans will change. To ensure this design sticks around, however, commissioners recommended to the City Council last week that any changes to the look are vetted by them."
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