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Originally Posted by colemonkee
What I would really like to see downtown, and in LA in general, is less of the TCA Architects of the world (even though they are a downtown firm), and more of the Daly Genik Architects of the world (also a LA firm). Daly Genik has some really visually interesting designs - and won the AIA Award for LA last year - and just one or two commissions downtown, even with mid-rise projects, could really inject some quality design into downtown.
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Daly Genik has an apartment going up right now in Santa Monica - on the corner of 26th and Broadway - and it is
stunning. Truly world class architecture. But you raise a good point. L.A. has such a wealth of great architects. Daly Genik, Lorcan O'Hearlihy, Koning Eizenberg, XTEN, Belzberg, SPF, Predock Frane, even Kanner, are all amazing, sometimes even jaw-dropping, architects. The fact that, for the most part, architects of this caliber don't trickle down into DTLA is a shame. Hopefully, as DTLA gains more clout, this will change.
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