A newly unveiled $2 billion development proposal crafted by Foster + Partners, Gensler, and RIOS for developers Alagem Capital Group aims to bring a pair of verdant, balcony-wrapped towers to Beverly Hills.
The project would be situated behind the Waldorf Astoria and Beverly Hilton Hotel sites and would bound the Los Angeles Country Club. In all, the development could render 303 units in addition to an adjacent hotel containing 42 high-end suites and 37 condominiums. The lower levels of the complex would include a retail podium filled with restaurants and shops, The Los Angeles Times reports.
Gensler is serving as Executive Architect for the development, while RIOS will provide landscape architecture services for. Under the current design, the ground level areas will be designed as lush landscapes and will be, according to reports, largely publicly accessible.
The project is slated to span over Merv Griffin Drive, a public street that bisects the project site, with a "landscaped platform, allowing the botanical gardens to stretch across the site,” according to a project press release.
Previously, the project site had been approved under a different developer to receive an similarly comprehensive set of new structures designed by Richard Meier. The latest proposal, according to The Los Angeles Times, will not change substantially in terms of gross area from the previously approved concept, though the projects 28- and 32-story towers are taller.
It is expected that the project will be reviewed over the next year with a 2021 construction start date and anticipated completion sometime in 2024.
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Sorry to grump again, but seriously: it's all trees and plants and shrubs and such. That's a developer's brochure, not a set of architectural images.
Found another rendering
very nice, really nice, they better hope the fat kats like it, because there the only ones who will be able to afford to buy..
Robert A.M. Stern's nearby tower looks really stupid and ugly compared to these.
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