LOS ANGELES | Downtown Project Rundown 6.0

[Doctorboffin]

^The ones up by Angels Knoll need to go asap. Same with that ugly switching station.

[NativeOrange]

Originally Posted by Valyrian Steel

LA isn't running out of parking lots. There dozens left all around downtown and other areas. That's in addition to sea of short, nondescript buildings that can easily be demolished.

There are still quite a few huge parking lots and hundreds of smaller ones. Also as you mentioned, hundreds more underutilized 1-story buildings. This is just within the 5-6 sq mile freeway loop.

[losangelesnative]

parts of downtown getting an electric car sharing program

http://la.curbed.com/2016/12/21/14046080/electric-carsharing-los-angeles-bluecalifornia

[Wilcal]

Originally Posted by Doctorboffin

^The ones up by Angels Knoll need to go asap. Same with that ugly switching station.

If you are talking about the PAC Bell tower built in the sixties, I like it. I think that it makes a funky contribution to the downtown skyline.

[Wilcal]

Originally Posted by Jun

29 Story planned for 845 S. Olive St.

http://www.ladowntownnews.com/news/story...c1d40ac-c709-11e6-9825-674d2511b01b.html

I like the dark features of the building. It seems to be one of Townga/Smith/Martins' hits rather than one of its misses. In my opinion the firm, despite a good pedigree, has some pretty bad designs (especially, I think when they tend to use a weird color palette). Notice how according to the model, the height seems to exceed the 801 Olive bldg. and equal that of Level.

[Quixote]

Yeah, if the tower is indeed planned to rise 29 stories, then the proportions in the renderings are way off.

[Mojeda101]

Originally Posted by Quixote

Yeah, if the tower is indeed planned to rise 29 stories, then the proportions in the renderings are way off.

It could be different floor heights. Atlier is 352' and Level is 375' and CIM is at 330' but all 3 have the same floor count. I'm 100 percent sure Atlier is taller though. From all the photos i've seen it definitely appears taller than Level.

The second tower for 1212 Flower is only 31 floors but it's height is at 421 beating all the towers above whereas Mack Urban and Circa have 37 and 36 floors and are at 425 and 420 respectively.

If that tower is over 350' for a 29 story, i'm cheering. In fact, Apex II is only 28 stories and will be 312' so it's not crazy to think they just have tall floors.

[King Kill 'em]

I forsee the residents of this tower someday being a NIMBY problem for when someone wants to develop the lot fronting 9th. If a tower is centered on the lot, it could have a shadow impact blocking the sun from the pool and residents could complain about losing their view Eastern Columbia style. Of course they'd lose and the fact that this tower will be rental and not condo also lessens this probability. Still amazing design, this block will be so cool someday.

[CaliNative]

Originally Posted by 112597jorge

Totally agree I don't think we will see 100 story office buildings but 100 story mixed use isn't so far fetched as some think. If the current boom keeps this pace we will be really short on open parking lots and smaller parcels will yield taller towers, who knows 100 story or 80 or whatever but taller nonetheless, and like I said, not so far fetched

I my original post "why not a 100 story in L.A.?" I didn't mean an office building, but a mixed use--hotel/condos/apts/retail/and some office floors. I think a 90 or 100 story mixed use would fit nicely on top of Bunker Hill, or facing Pershing Square, or south Figueroa. Tower(s) probably in the 1100-1300 foot range, maybe higher if you put a spire on top. Chicago city pop. about 2.5 million; L.A. 4 million. L.A. is ready to take skyline to the next level. 40 years ago the thought of L.A. having two 70+ story buildings and a subway/rail system would have seemed far fetched. L.A. will have one or more 80/90/100+ story towers--only a question of when. Hopefully soon.

[Doctorboffin]

it's happening!

http://urbanize.la/post/three-tower-development-proposed-near-la-live

[black_crow]

YEAHHHHH

http://urbanize.la/post/three-tower-development-proposed-near-la-live

[CaliNative]

Tremendous demand for apartments/condos. A forest of 30-50 story towers needed.

[ChargerCarl]

Originally Posted by Doctorboffin

it's happening!

http://urbanize.la/post/three-tower-development-proposed-near-la-live

[black_crow]

Those towers will connect Downtown to South Park and fill the last gap.

Another Chinese developer is behind that one.. Shenlong Group.

[King Kill 'em]

At this point there really shouldn't be any more buildings being proposed in downtown with more than 1 parking space per residential unit. City Planning needs to step up their game.

[Jun]

Originally Posted by Doctorboffin

it's happening!

http://urbanize.la/post/three-tower-development-proposed-near-la-live

impossible, the cycle is over /s

[ChargerCarl]

Originally Posted by King Kill 'em

At this point there really shouldn't be any more buildings being proposed in downtown with more than 1 parking space per residential unit. City Planning needs to step up their game.

Agreed

[hughfb3]

Originally Posted by Jun

impossible, the cycle is over /s

... But...The cycle was over in Summer 2015. How are we getting all these new proposals and submissions??

Great news. Hoping for beautiful looking buildings this time around... A new Cesar Pelli, a new Bjark Ingels, a new AC Martin, a new City House and Olympic??? A Man can dream

[ChelseaFC]

Originally Posted by Doctorboffin

it's happening!

http://urbanize.la/post/three-tower-development-proposed-near-la-live

major kudos to whoever originally found this project on the city century website...their discovery looks like it will soon become reality

[JerellO]

The 29-story tower proposed in front of level has a freakin waterfall that's awesome!!