Posted Jul 8, 2013, 12:39 AM
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Location: Los Angeles
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Originally Posted by edluva
i wish LA developers would stop desiging plazas and buildings with the chief aim of creating a "center" out of a single or few developments, and instead simply focus on desiging good buildings such that centrality will occur over time, organically, and have a vibrant neighborhood arise from the effect of having many well designed buildings collectively define that neighborhood.
all of this self-concious aping to be the times square of the west coast is going to make for a less respectable urbanism than we desire. we wonder why LA fails at thoughtful architecture where so many other global cities succeed - it's because we design theme-parks first, and buildings second.
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definitely agree with you here. Destinations are built instead of building to integrate with the surroundings.
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