giving a press conference about his new eco-tower planned for Century City. Today the LA Times' Christopher Hawthorne discusses, and responds to yesterday's LAT's piece New heights of luxury in Century City.
"From the boulevard, it will look like a vertical garden," Nouvel tells the Times.
As a looming object in the cityscape, the design -- not only Nouvel's first Los Angeles commission but also his first project west of Minneapolis, where his remarkable, brooding Guthrie Theater opened two years ago -- is an ode to architecture's Modernist heroes. A tall, monolithic and almost impossibly thin slab, it resembles nothing so much as the 39-story United Nations tower, a 1953 building designed by an international team of architects, including the French master Le Corbusier.
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i totally agree. this tower will be very appropriate for the vertical 'super' los angeles and may even jump start affordable highrise housing, even though this particular project will be in millions range. finally i am excited about a new project in los angeles for its possibilities as a model.
btw,
green machine = glen small
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