Los Angeles County supervisors gave their blessing Tuesday to a reimagined design for a proposed mix of high-end apartments, businesses and public space across from Walt Disney Concert Hall.
The $750-million plan to redevelop that portion of downtown's Grand Avenue nearly screeched to a halt in September, when a panel of city and county representatives overseeing the project rejected the design presented by developer Related Cos.
— latimes.com
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No more fucking stacked boxes!
At least they put a little green in-between!!
Better than this
http://buildinglosangeles.blogspot.com/2013/09/grand-avenue-projects-650-million-phase.html
No?
High end housing and retail, who could say no?
Stacked boxes are cool though. They speak to the fragmented nature of modern society.
Related -always trying to skimp . . .
TD< Not only do stacked boxes speak, as you say, they answer. Even a fragmented society can be held together with enough engineering. Forget how it looks, architects (architecture) can patch anything together.
An old aphorism: Instability leads to opportunity. Will total Chaos lead us to a new Golden Age?
apologies to N
Fuck stacked boxes.
I sense a theme...
Still, his library in Hollywood is pretty good, I have to say. It demonstrates the adage: "the lower the budget, the better the Gehry."
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