LOS ANGELES | Downtown Project Rundown 6.0 - Page 141

blackcat23 · #**2801** Posted **Sep 27, 2016, 5:04 AM**

Adaptive Reuse Planned for Arts District Building

Doctorboffin · #**2802** Posted **Sep 27, 2016, 6:00 PM**

Is So LA village ever going to break ground? (also is that downtown or metro I'm not 100% sure)

ChelseaFC · #**2803** Posted **Sep 27, 2016, 6:03 PM**

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Hotel Fig Gets Upscale Dining, Bar Options

The Hotel Figueroa is reopening in December after a massive renovation.

Now comes word that its dining options will be overseen by chef Casey Lane, who ran The Parish in the Fashion District before it closed abruptly in 2013, while the drinking side will be run by Dushan Zaric, best known for his Employees Only project in New York City.

Lane will lead two restaurants dubbed Breva and Veranda, the former with a focus on Basque and Spanish flavors, and the latter leaning toward Italian pizzas and pastas, per a report from the website Eater L.A.

Zaric, meanwhile, is overseeing four bars, including a lobby space named Bar Figueroa and a smaller, bespoke option the hotel is calling Bar Alta.

The big-name additions portend that Hotel Fig will become more of a Downtown destination than a hidden gem.

http://www.ladowntownnews.com/restaurant...f19e276-84cf-11e6-8a17-4f688d4cfb7c.html

King Kill 'em · #**2804** Posted **Sep 27, 2016, 6:07 PM**

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Originally Posted by Doctorboffin

Is So LA village ever going to break ground? (also is that downtown or metro I'm not 100% sure)

It's currently in appeal hell. It'll prevail though I'm sure.

ChargerCarl · #**2805** Posted **Sep 27, 2016, 6:31 PM**

ChelseaFC, what do you call that architectural style? Spanish revival? I love it.

blackcat23 · #**2806** Posted **Sep 27, 2016, 6:32 PM**

Six-story building coming to City West

ChargerCarl · #**2807** Posted **Sep 27, 2016, 7:57 PM**

Nice uninteresting infill. No complaints.

ChelseaFC · #**2808** Posted **Sep 27, 2016, 8:34 PM**

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Originally Posted by ChargerCarl

ChelseaFC, what do you call that architectural style? Spanish revival? I love it.

This is the description from LA Downtown News:

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The 13-story, 240,000-square-foot edifice, built as a YWCA hotel for women travelers in 1927 and later transformed into the Moroccan-themed Hotel Figueroa, is undergoing a restoration of its original Italian Renaissance facade and Spanish Colonial interior.

LosAngelesSportsFan · #**2809** Posted **Sep 27, 2016, 8:45 PM**

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Originally Posted by ChelseaFC

Looks amazing, what am improvement

hotwheels · #**2810** Posted **Sep 27, 2016, 9:04 PM**

Updated W Hotel Los Angeles Proposal Features Massive Wrap-Around LED Screen

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An updated set of renderings for the proposed W Hotel Los Angeles development reveal the addition of what a massive wrap-around LED screen that will envelop the lower perimeter of all three towers central to the Gensler-designed project. Brought forward earlier this week by Chinese developer Shenzen Hazens, the latest addition will most certainly bring a flashier, more international element to the project, as the architectural video screen treatment has long been a staple in Asian metropolises, with an increasing presence beginning to take root in North America and elsewhere.

Doctorboffin · #**2811** Posted **Sep 27, 2016, 9:37 PM**

I was browsing some failed proposals and I found these two renderings for residential towers back in the early 2000s. I have never seen them before, and I wasn't sure if you guys have so I thought I'd share.

I can see why someone might not like them, but I would kill to have these guys put up. I am not quite sure what ended up taking their place, and if that lot is still up for grabs I hope they keep these guys in mind.

LAsam · #**2812** Posted **Sep 27, 2016, 9:53 PM**

I feel like those were proposed for the current Metropolis site, but I could be wrong about that.

ChelseaFC · #**2813** Posted **Sep 27, 2016, 10:09 PM**

Those were called City House and Olympic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_House_and_the_Olympic)

Site which is now occupied by the Hanover Grand

RuFFy · #**2814** Posted **Sep 27, 2016, 10:10 PM**

Dating myself... That pair of skyscrapers were a mid 2000's proposal known as City House and Olympic. At first they were a pair of the taller tower and then they were proposed as you see in your pic.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_House_and_the_Olympic

Err. Someone beat me to it.

StethJeff · #**2815** Posted **Sep 27, 2016, 11:40 PM**

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Originally Posted by Doctorboffin

I was browsing some failed proposals and I found these two renderings for residential towers back in the early 2000s. I have never seen them before, and I wasn't sure if you guys have so I thought I'd share.

I can see why someone might not like them, but I would kill to have these guys put up. I am not quite sure what ended up taking their place, and if that lot is still up for grabs I hope they keep these guys in mind.

Have we seen them before? Ha! These were like the biggest obsession on the LA forum for about a year and half. They're like the poster children for unrealized LA unrealistic dream projects.

blackcat23 · #**2816** Posted **Sep 28, 2016, 12:24 AM**

33-story tower coming to the Fashion District

headcheckjj · #**2817** Posted **Sep 28, 2016, 12:34 AM**

The spat of projects announced this week alone tell me DTLA is heating up, not slowing down.

What an exciting slate of proposals!

CaliNative · #**2818** Posted **Sep 28, 2016, 1:38 AM**

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Originally Posted by Doctorboffin

I was browsing some failed proposals and I found these two renderings for residential towers back in the early 2000s. I have never seen them before, and I wasn't sure if you guys have so I thought I'd share.

I can see why someone might not like them, but I would kill to have these guys put up. I am not quite sure what ended up taking their place, and if that lot is still up for grabs I hope they keep these guys in mind.

I love them, especially the 2 in the top photo. The building on the right in the top photo looks like a taller version of the Carew Tower in Cincinatti. These are the kind of Art Deco towers L.A. might have built in the Roaring 1920s if not for that silly 150 foot height restriction (except for City Hall). Build them! They would look especially good in the Broadway Historic District, with all the old movie palaces. Offices/condos/hotel. People would love it. Everybody likes the Art Deco look & the 1920s have charisma. Of course, inside everything would be spanking new. Just the facade would be retro.

SD_Phil · #**2819** Posted **Sep 28, 2016, 1:40 AM**

Those were the days. I remember liking the City House and Olympic but their time has come and gone. Perhaps, as the city matures and develops its urban fabric, shorter versions of these can make their way onto vacant lots in the Arts or Warehouse districts.

NativeOrange · #**2820** Posted **Sep 28, 2016, 3:06 AM**

I remember when those towers first showed up here. Liked them a lot at the time. Now...not so much. At least at street level, it looks terrible. Chop off the tower portion and you would have a de facto Geoff Palmer building with massive tacky parking entrances. Looks like it could be in Vegas.