Well, the Libeskind Tower is officially dead (as if anyone thought that would actually happen), but the upside is that construction may be coming to that plot rather soon. The plan looks like a good one, even if the design is just so-so. I abhor stucco, but metal window mullions throughout - and especially at the corners - help soften the blow. The better part of this plan is that it will have street frontage on Figueroa & Flower, whereas the previous plan treated Flower like a red-headed stepchild. Plus all the parking is now below grade. +10 Urban Design Points.
From
Curbed LA:
Image Credit: Cypress Equity Investments
Downtown Libeskind Tower Replaced With Two Seven Story Apartment Buildings
Thursday, November 3, 2011, by Adrian Glick Kudler
Remember January 2009 when you first caught a glimpse of that fellow on the left--Daniel Libeskind's rendering for a 43 story condo building in South Park--and you were like "Really? That? For Downtown? In 2009?" And then you found out it had also been planned for New Jersey in 2005 and São Paulo in 2010? Well, it's dead. Good luck with that, Brazil. The building's site on Figueroa, across from the Convention Center, went up for sale in May, and
blogdowntown reports today that it was snapped up in September by a joint venture of Cypress Equity Investments and Fifield Companies, who plan to put up two seven story apartment towers (For Downtown? In 2011?).
Read the full story - and inevitable snarky comments -
here.
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