LOS ANGELES | Trump Wilshire - Ambassador | HEIGHT | 125 FLOORS | 1990 | NEVER BUILT
I remember as a kid being very excited at the prospect of the world's tallest building in LA. And of course it would not have been downtown, but in the Mid-Wilshire area. It would have been built on the site of the Ambassador Hotel, most notable for being the site of the RFK assassination. It would have been 1 block from the Wilshire/Normandie Metro station. I wonder if any of the other LA forumers have more info on this?
Source: Antelope Valley Press, April 15, 1990 http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ng/W-AMB05.jpg The article mentions the LAUSD wanting to take over the site, which they eventually did. The hotel was demolished in 2006, but I am unsure whether or not the new high school has opened on the site as of yet. Richard Keating of SOM designed the winning scheme for Trump, a 125 story monster of a tower (there would have been a hotel component as well). Source of images below: Master Architect Series II: Richard Keating http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ng/W-AMB01.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ng/W-AMB02.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ng/W-AMB03.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ng/W-AMB04.jpg |
Looks like a giant column. I was expecting this blocky, setback full of, dark blue tower. Not bad for that time but I wonder if it could've been built back then?
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I don't like the location.
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Looks like Taipei 101.
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Please, Please don't give up Donald!!:fingerscrossed:
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So glad this one didn't get built. It would've been so out of place.
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If only it was built. More than likely, it would have spurred more development in mid-wilshire. And, I actually like the way the tower looks.
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Thank God this wasn't built. It belongs in New York.
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^^Thats a good way of thinking (sarcasm)
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I've always wondered how it looked like, Well I'm mixed with this tower, I really like the design, but LA? I dont know, it would have been cool, but tottaly out of place.
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^I think it would have been absolutely fitting for LA. The city of nodes builds the world's tallest building at yet another one. At least it was proposed next to a subway station and not say...at the 405 and Santa Monica?
I think it would have been a great project (though I do wonder about FAA clearances given the approach to the northern runways at LAX). |
Ugly
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Surprised me, I've never heard of this proposal.
It would be cool if someone with photoshop (or whatever) placed it in it's local in a overview of L.A. Wouldn't it be about halfway between downtown and Century City ...a bit closer to downtown no doubt....but still west of Bullock's Wilshire? |
^ It would be about a block or 2 from the Wilshire/Normandie subway station. Itself about 3 or 4 miles from downtown LA.
Anyway, while looking for more info for this tower, I found some pics of a failed plan to redevelop the Ambassador Hotel from 1957. http://farm1.static.flickr.com/126/3...047a887b3c.jpg http://farm1.static.flickr.com/156/3...6f828ccabc.jpg It would've been called Ambassador International. |
^^^ Yummy
The subject of this thread however is gross. I'm glad it didn't get built... |
So what if anything is on the site now? I remember some people wanting to save the hotel, while the city wanted to build a new high school on there...
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I actually might have liked this if this was built in the LA Live Spot, just imagine!
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