Downtown from Hollywood today. Grand Avenue being the first of many to establish a slope on the north side of downtown
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Other Images showing our beautifully and carefully crafted skyline in relation to and purposefully mimicking the San Gabriel Mountains and Hollywood Hills peaks and slopes.
The invisible hands are real. A new skyscraper downtown has to be in the right place, at the right time, with the right massing to get approved in this skyline.
The below pictures show you how the city imagines its skyline as a reflection of the natural backdrop.
Developers will come and go and they will propose this and that. Until the next masterplan comes out; or until the perfectly located assembly of lots becomes available, the US Bank tower will be the central focus in the skyline for a while, with all other towers set to fill in for a perfectly peaked skyline from EVERY angle, including the elongated view from Hollywood. Gotta remember, this is a movie town and L.A. is crafting the picture perfect backdrop.
Los Angeles is one of the last remaining central peak skylines left in the World. San Francisco is trying to create a new rolling peak skyline with Transbay and its surrounding master plan. New York is attempting in its historical centers with WTC in downtown, and JDS Brooklyn. Everywhere else is just a big blob of high rises
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Notice how the photographer shot this picture in a way that the trees somewhat mimick the skyline. Gotta think like an artist/director in this town as even they are directing the artistic direction of our skyline
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^^^Look for the fill in on the north east with the Angels Landing towers, Onni Times Mirror, and Tribune tower to smooth out the gap between city hall and the main towers to create a perfectly crafted peak skyline from this view.^^^
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^^One of the most famous views of the Skyline which is constantly shown on reality TV is from the northwest, many times including the hills in the foreground... In this illustration of the (on hold) Olympia project, you will see a cultivated skyline meant to mimic the famous rolling Hollywood Hills silhouette into Griffith.
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