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Illithid Dude · #**9101** Posted **May 29, 2019, 7:24 PM**

Speaking of looking pretty good...

42 story luxury residential tower set for 5411 Wilshire Blvd. Designed by Richard Keating.

https://www.latimes.com/business/la-...0G7JO7ChmvOkx0

LAsam · #**9102** Posted **May 29, 2019, 8:19 PM**

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Originally Posted by kolchak

Las Palmas, sorry

Got it, thanks. Looked it up on GoogleMaps... that is a huge project!

LAsam · #**9103** Posted **May 29, 2019, 8:22 PM**

^^ Regarding 5411, I looked it up on Streetview and I was going to say there's no chance in hell they will be allowed to tear down that old art deco building there. Then I noticed that it looks like the existing building is incorporated into the podium of the new tower... so maybe it can pass. Just feels like Spaghetti Factory all over again...

EDIT: Just saw the Urbanize article which says they want to tear down part of the existing 1930's era building... good luck with that.

kolchak · #**9104** Posted **May 29, 2019, 10:21 PM**

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Originally Posted by LAsam

Got it, thanks. Looked it up on GoogleMaps... that is a huge project!

Almost 700 apartments!

Illithid Dude · #**9105** Posted **May 29, 2019, 10:34 PM**

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Originally Posted by LAsam

^^ Regarding 5411, I looked it up on Streetview and I was going to say there's no chance in hell they will be allowed to tear down that old art deco building there. Then I noticed that it looks like the existing building is incorporated into the podium of the new tower... so maybe it can pass. Just feels like Spaghetti Factory all over again...

EDIT: Just saw the Urbanize article which says they want to tear down part of the existing 1930's era building... good luck with that.

The portion of the building they want to tear down is an annex built in the early 90s. The original elements from the 30s will remain.

LAsam · #**9106** Posted **May 29, 2019, 11:25 PM**

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Originally Posted by Illithid Dude

The portion of the building they want to tear down is an annex built in the early 90s. The original elements from the 30s will remain.

Got it, thanks for clarifying. That should help the developer a bit.

CaliNative · #**9107** Posted **May 30, 2019, 10:04 AM**

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Originally Posted by Illithid Dude

Speaking of looking pretty good...

42 story luxury residential tower set for 5411 Wilshire Blvd. Designed by Richard Keating.

https://www.latimes.com/business/la-...0G7JO7ChmvOkx0

Looks to be about 500-550' tall, give or take. Maybe the tallest on Wilshire outside of DTLA. Nice design, incorporating the art deco base with street level retail. Tarzan like.

CaliNative · #**9108** Posted **May 30, 2019, 10:18 AM**

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What’s up with that community development called Centennial @ Tejon Ranch?? I thought California learned and was down with the spread of suburban sprawl?? Do people really support that? I honestly think that land should be preserved.. so it’s beautiful the way it looks... and besides we dont need any more sprawl. I understand we need housing, but suburbs isn’t the answer imo.

I hope they don't build it either. Much closer to Bakersfield than L.A. and the area should be left natural. But Tejon Ranch Co. has all this land and they want to build on it. I think demand in such a remote location could stymie the project if the state or economy doesn't. Would be a great state park or nature reserve.

colemonkee · #**9109** Posted **May 30, 2019, 2:49 PM**

Loving 5411 Wilshire and hope it's built exactly as proposed. Though I'd argue the design has far more in common with streamline moderne style than art deco, with the exception of the verticality. Still, both streamline moderne and art deco are from the same era, and pretty common along that stretch of Wilshire, so it fits like a glove. Here's hoping this is the first of many towers of this quality along this stretch. Now, if we could only get SHoP or Cetra-Ruddy to design towers for the two lots at the corner of Wilshire and La Brea...

ocman · #**9110** Posted **May 31, 2019, 11:11 AM**

Exposition Park plans a makeover that would make Seurat smile

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If you live in Los Angeles, perhaps you’ve been to Exposition Park — maybe to catch a Trojans game at the Coliseum, or to see the Space Shuttle Endeavor at the California Science Center, or to let the kids run around the dinosaurs at the Natural History Museum.
But odds are you didn’t actually come to Expo Park for the park. You drove in to one of its behemoth parking lots. And then you drove out.

It’s sort of chaos right now,” said Billie Greer, chair of the Master Plan Committee for the board of directors of Exposition Park. “We have to remember that people should be able to come to the park, not just to go to a museum or a stadium. But to exercise. To walk. To sit. To dream a little bit and enjoy the outside. We need some quiet places and some beautiful places.”

At long last, that change may finally be coming.
Officials have commissioned a new master plan timed with the most significant park additions in decades: MAD Architects’ Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, which is under construction and will float above the west edge of the park; Frederick Fisher and Partners’ new wing for the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, which will serve as a new entrance facing the Lucas Museum; and ZGF’s Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center, a permanent home for the (soon-to-be upright) Space Shuttle. Also of note: USC’s ongoing $270-million renovation of the Coliseum.

Sparked by these changes and the 2028 Games, the state-funded Office of Exposition Park Management — with contributions from the park’s member institutions — last year hired Washington, D.C.-based master planning specialists Torti Gallas + Partners and a large team of consultants to propose ways for the park to function more like a park.

colemonkee · #**9111** Posted **Jun 4, 2019, 2:45 PM**

Crazy to think it, but it's been two years since I posted my last update on the Century Plaza towers, which at the time (April 2017) were pretty far along into the shoring and excavation phase. This one is from Sunday, and we're finally at the standard residential floorplate on both towers, so they should start rising a bit quicker now.

Image Source: Me and my iPhone

LAsam · #**9112** Posted **Jun 4, 2019, 3:42 PM**

^ It feels like the towers have been at that level for quite some time now. The site has a ton of activity, though, so they must be making progress. The combined podium for the two towers makes for a massive construction site.

Steve8263 · #**9113** Posted **Jun 4, 2019, 4:01 PM**

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Originally Posted by ocman

Exposition Park plans a makeover that would make Seurat smile

I (and presumably many others) regularly take the Expo line to events at the new soccer stadium and coliseum. Hopefully they include extensive sidewalk and walking path changes to improve circulation cuz right now the routing from north to south is ridiculous.

Quixote · #**9114** Posted **Jun 8, 2019, 11:42 PM**

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Originally Posted by ocman

Exposition Park plans a makeover that would make Seurat smile

This is long overdue. I've always felt that Exposition Park, like all things related to the public realm in Los Angeles, was very dowdy looking--even more so now considering I just got back from a 2-week trip to Europe. It should look like Chicago's Millennium Park or Museum Campus.

Like the article mentions, there's too many ugly fences, poor landscape design, inconsistent lighting, power lines, etc. The new design should reflect the fact that it's a pre-war campus. That means we should replace all concrete with stone pavers, have balustrades or tasteful wrought iron fencing, shady trees and lush landscaping, etc. And I know the Coliseum is undergoing renovation, but are they going to do something about the exterior? How about giving it a scrub or even painting it before 2028?

LA really needs to look more polished, and Exposition Park is a great place to start.

LosAngelesSportsFan · #**9115** Posted **Jun 9, 2019, 3:53 AM**

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Originally Posted by Quixote

This is long overdue. I've always felt that Exposition Park, like all things related to the public realm in Los Angeles, was very dowdy looking--even more so now considering I just got back from a 2-week trip to Europe. It should look like Chicago's Millennium Park or Museum Campus.

Like the article mentions, there's too many ugly fences, poor landscape design, inconsistent lighting, power lines, etc. The new design should reflect the fact that it's a pre-war campus. That means we should replace all concrete with stone pavers, have balustrades or tasteful wrought iron fencing, shady trees and lush landscaping, etc. And I know the Coliseum is undergoing renovation, but are they going to do something about the exterior? How about giving it a scrub or even painting it before 2028?

LA really needs to look more polished, and Exposition Park is a great place to start.

If the city of Los Angeles actually cares about the public realm, this would be the greatest city. It's infuriating to me that we can't even have the most basic and simple city services and maintenance. Imagine if all of LA was taken care of like Pasadena or Manhattan Beach... It would be remarkable

For instance, You would think there would be some sort of plan to underground overhead wires and combine it with replacing the aging water pipes, while at the same time wiring the city for the future and then repaving those same streets. Afterwards, replace the telephone poles with trees. Seems basic enough and would be a great, tangible improvement, even at 10 miles per year... Nope.. We can't even have trash cans at every bus stop

Haitian · #**9116** Posted **Jun 9, 2019, 6:30 AM**

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Originally Posted by Illithid Dude

Speaking of looking pretty good...

42 story luxury residential tower set for 5411 Wilshire Blvd. Designed by Richard Keating.

https://www.latimes.com/business/la-...0G7JO7ChmvOkx0

Now that's a beautiful building. I spent some great years living in that neighborhood and I've always dreamed of it lined with high rises, like in Westwood. Crazy how much that area has changed. I still remember when Radio Shack was there...

citywatch · #**9117** Posted **Jun 9, 2019, 4:32 PM**

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For instance, You would think there would be some sort of plan to underground overhead wires

^ Forget about the Olympics decades ago. This still hasn't been dealt with even after the LAFC's new stadium replaced the former sports arena.

what do things like that say about the type of ppl managing LA?

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Utility poles and crisscrossing overhead power lines are a common feature of the landscape in most parts of Japan. These eyesores are not worthy of an advanced economy and are also disappointing tourists from abroad.

Now the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games are providing an impetus to efforts to remove utility poles in the capital and bury power cables underground.

The metropolitan government adopted a plan in 2014 to bury power lines in central Tokyo areas where venues for the Olympics will be concentrated. In a recent policy speech, Gov. Yuriko Koike expressed her resolve to push efforts to move the capital’s power grid underground. The efforts in Tokyo, if they bear fruit, should help promote similar moves in other parts of the country.

Comparisons with other countries show just how far Japan lags behind in the introduction of subterranean power distribution systems. In London and Paris, all power lines were installed underground even from before World War II. Among Asian cities, Hong Kong has all its power lines underground, while Seoul has buried 46 percent of its electricity cables.

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Work has begun to remove the first of 52 pylons that dominate the Olympic Park, in time for the 2012 games.

The electricity pylons will be replaced by two four-mile long tunnels, which will carry the power lines underground at the site in Stratford, east London. Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) chairman David Higgins said the removal symbolised the "huge change" the games would bring to east London.

All 52 pylons are due to be removed by the end of the year.

^ pylons, not just poles. that type of activity makes LA come off like kindergartners.