LOS ANGELES | METRO Project Rundown 2.0 (non-downtown)

[Steve2726]

Interesting proposal for 9000 Wilshire-

http://projects.denari.co/9000-WILSHIRE-2017

[Wally West]

Originally Posted by bobbyv

http://la.curbed.com/archives/2014/0...n_wilshire.php
terrible news, why would these idiots want to bulldoze such a nice building?

Someone brought up a valid reason why they want to demolish this gem of a building.

"I think I've heard that the Farmers relocation is because the main building on the campus (the Deco building in the photo) requires such extensive retrofits for seismic safety that it's cost-prohibitive. They're relocating rather than do the retrofits. (If you look at the LA Times article related to earthquake-risk concrete buildings, this one is listed: http://graphics.latimes.com/la-concrete-buildings/) So, lovely as the building is, it may not be long for the world simply because of the risk of occupying versus the cost of retrofitting."

As much as I hate to see this building go, it looks very unlikely that someone is going to save it.

[blackcat23]

http://buildinglosangeles.blogspot.c...es-at-lmu.html

This is a new building currently under construction at LMU. Designed by CO Architects.

[circuitfiend]

Looks like the official ground-breaking ceremony for 10000 Sta Mon occurred this a.m. Speakers at a podium, cameras, sound system, dignitaries, shovels, the whole bit. You really can't tell by the lighting, but the dig is quite deep, which I tried to capture. It's better in the afternoon, when that side is in shadow. I'll take those shots when they're done digging.

[blackcat23]

Psyched that 10000 Santa Monica is really happening. Now we have to wait on the other Century City proposals; 10131 W. Constellation Blvd is currently going through the CPC. Still not much happening with New Century Plaza or the Westfield Tower.

In other Westside high-rise news, the Gayley at Wilshire suddenly appeared in this past weeks City Planning filings. Looks like the wannabe Flatiron proposal is still alive.

[colemonkee]

^ That looks a lot taller than originally proposed. Very interesting.

In the exact opposite direction, the developer of Plaza of Santa Monica (the Rem Koolhaas proposal) has offered up a slightly shorter version (85 ft. vs 148 ft. tall) to appease Santa Monica City Council. Currently the council is discussing which design to approve/move forward with. Curbed has some really cool before/after pics that you can toggle back and forth.

Frankly, I like the original design much better - it includes more affordable housing (which Santa Monica desperately needs) and the fanned design is a great way to program the space. But the alternate design would still be pretty cool. Check it out here:http://la.curbed.com/archives/2014/0...za_at_samo.php



Here's The New, Stumpier Starchitect Design For Plaza at SaMo
Thursday, June 5, 2014, by Bianca Barragan

Starchitect Rem Koolhaas and his firm OMA have been yanked around quite a bit in just the last year or so since Santa Monica selected them to design the Plaza at Santa Monica, a mixed-user with a boutique hotel, restaurants, shops, a marketplace, and cultural and public space on a highly-covetable city-owned site at Fourth and Arizona. OMA's designs were picked in the summer, then rejected in the fall, then reselected in the winter in a version that included housing. And now there's yet another version. The initial design called for a 12-story, 148-foot-tall structure that looks like an opening fan, but, according to documents that will be presented to the Santa Monica City Council next week, the city also asked the firm to come up with designs for an 84-foot-tall structure just for the heck of it.

Read the rest of the article here.

[edluva]

actually this project is being designed by Shigematsu, a design partner of Koolhaas, not Koolhaas himself.

in some ways i prefer the massing of the revised plan, but in either case, it's slated for way too many parking spaces. until projects can stop allotting a significant portion of their real estate to parking, any claims to ped friendly design are just window dressing. not santa monicas fault perse, just a testament to market forces and the usability (or lack thereof) of mass transit regionally speaking

[LA21st]

Originally Posted by blackcat23

Psyched that 10000 Santa Monica is really happening. Now we have to wait on the other Century City proposals; 10131 W. Constellation Blvd is currently going through the CPC. Still not much happening with New Century Plaza or the Westfield Tower.

In other Westside high-rise news, the Gayley at Wilshire suddenly appeared in this past weeks City Planning filings. Looks like the wannabe Flatiron proposal is still alive.

That looks to be 35-40 stories.

It'd be cool if they can add 4-5 more 20 story highrises in that Westwood Gateway area

[JDRCRASH]

^ You can bet something big is planned on that large parking lot behind Gayley, especially with the Purple Line planned to go through the area.

[Illithid Dude]

Originally Posted by JDRCRASH

^ You can bet something big is planned on that large parking lot behind Gayley, especially with the Purple Line planned to go through the area.

Actually, the parking lot is owned by UCLA, who want to do very little with it.

[blackcat23]

Originally Posted by colemonkee

^ That looks a lot taller than originally proposed. Very interesting.

The image was pulled from the 2009 DEIR, but it does look like the proportions are a bit off, now that you mention it. In reality, the G@W would be closer in height to Center West (400' tall, two blocks east).

[Ragnar]

Originally Posted by Ragnar

With all credit due to ChelseaFC in the L.A. Central City thread, I have shamelessly stolen the idea of putting all of the development activity in Glendale in a Google Map. While not nearly as vast and exciting as what's going on in Downtown L.A., Glendale has a lot of activity completed, under construction, and proposed/approved. Glendale is rapidly filling its parking lots and unused commercial space with apartments, condos, and hotels. These are the projects that I am aware of, but if anyone knows of any others feel free to let me know and I will add them!

Glendale Development map:

https://mapsengine.google.com/map/ed...M.kVUwo1XoAbGk

key:
blue = recently completed
red = u/c
Green = proposed/approved
Black = Initial planning

Updated to add The Campus as an approved project pending construction.

http://la.curbed.com/archives/2014/0...ndale.php#more

Huge Mixed-User Headed to Dull Stretch of Brand in Glendale

Glendale's apartment explosion carries on and on, with a new mixed-use development coming to liven up a sleepy section of Brand Boulevard in downtown. The Glendale City Council signed off last week on a development called the Campus, the LA Times reports; it would create a complex with 5,000 square feet of restaurant space, 219 apartments, and nine live/work units in buildings up to eight stories ("step[ping] down" to one story along Brand) on a 1.3-acre site that's now home to a restaurant, office buildings, and a parking garage.

[caligrad]

I like it. Looks interesting. Like some actual thought was put into it.

[Steve2726]

There's a big new fence up and what appears to be demolition going on at the old May Co. building at 9900 Wilshire Blvd. Isn't that property supposedly back on the market for sale?

Also, heavy equipment has arrived at the Sunset/ La Cienega site. Looks like the start of construction there.

[IMBY]

Originally Posted by colemonkee

^ That looks a lot taller than originally proposed. Very interesting.

In the exact opposite direction, the developer of Plaza of Santa Monica (the Rem Koolhaas proposal) has offered up a slightly shorter version (85 ft. vs 148 ft. tall) to appease Santa Monica City Council. Currently the council is discussing which design to approve/move forward with. Curbed has some really cool before/after pics that you can toggle back and forth.

Frankly, I like the original design much better - it includes more affordable housing (which Santa Monica desperately needs) and the fanned design is a great way to program the space. But the alternate design would still be pretty cool. Check it out here:http://la.curbed.com/archives/2014/0...za_at_samo.php



Here's The New, Stumpier Starchitect Design For Plaza at SaMo
Thursday, June 5, 2014, by Bianca Barragan

Starchitect Rem Koolhaas and his firm OMA have been yanked around quite a bit in just the last year or so since Santa Monica selected them to design the Plaza at Santa Monica, a mixed-user with a boutique hotel, restaurants, shops, a marketplace, and cultural and public space on a highly-covetable city-owned site at Fourth and Arizona. OMA's designs were picked in the summer, then rejected in the fall, then reselected in the winter in a version that included housing. And now there's yet another version. The initial design called for a 12-story, 148-foot-tall structure that looks like an opening fan, but, according to documents that will be presented to the Santa Monica City Council next week, the city also asked the firm to come up with designs for an 84-foot-tall structure just for the heck of it.

Read the rest of the article here.

There is no other word for this, the Nimby madness that goes on in this city, but the word tragi-comedic! Now let's add a bit more comedy to this project with yet another revision, scaling this project down to 50 feet!

Just wondering, how many masochistic architects, working on projects in Santa Monica, have committed suicide?

[112597jorge]

Originally Posted by IMBY

There is no other word for this, the Nimby madness that goes on in this city, but the word tragi-comedic! Now let's add a bit more comedy to this project with yet another revision, scaling this project down to 50 feet!

Just wondering, how many masochistic architects, working on projects in Santa Monica, have committed suicide?

the taller version was chosen by SaMo city council

[colemonkee]

^ That's promising news. I much prefer the higher rise version.

[caligrad]

^^ Ditto, The shorter version looks rather.....cheap looking ? with much of the building sitting on stilts like that.

[ChelseaFC]

Originally Posted by JDRCRASH

^ You can bet something big is planned on that large parking lot behind Gayley, especially with the Purple Line planned to go through the area.

Doubt it. It's a UCLA employee parking lot.

[colemonkee]

I honestly think either version would be nice, and I like the building on stilts effect. But I like the taller version as it steps up more naturally, and creates three distinct rooftop terraces that will have some pretty spectacular views.