LOS ANGELES | Downtown Project Rundown 4.0

[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.