LOS ANGELES | METRO Project Rundown 2.0 (non-downtown) - Page 158

Steve2726 · #**3141** Posted **Apr 15, 2013, 3:08 PM**

Construction Begins on 'Runway,' a $260 Million Mixed-Use Destination in The Village at Playa Vista

http://custom.fmg.dowjones.com/custo...4ecaef6fc37%7D

PLAYA VISTA, Calif., Apr 15, 2013 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- The legendary parcel of land that once gave rise to Howard Hughes' aerospace empire is undergoing a transformation into 'Runway,' a large-scale mixed-use center that will offer unique shopping, dining, entertainment and living space in the heart of the Playa Vista community. The development team, led by Lincoln Property Company, Phoenix Property Company and Paragon Commercial Group, has begun construction on the long-anticipated lifestyle center that will soon connect the Phase I residential community and the Campus at Playa Vista.

http://www.johnsonfain.com/architecture/121

Oron Zchut · #**3142** Posted **Apr 16, 2013, 4:23 AM**

Some updates from my recent trip to LA:

Blvd6200:

Vermont/Wilshire:

K2LA:

colemonkee · #**3143** Posted **Apr 16, 2013, 2:02 PM**

I'm counting about 10 more stories to go on the taller tower at Vermont and Wilshire.

blackcat23 · #**3144** Posted **Apr 17, 2013, 3:58 AM**

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Originally Posted by colemonkee

I'm counting about 10 more stories to go on the taller tower at Vermont and Wilshire.

That sounds about right. Construction progress has slowed in the past few weeks after going at swift pace for months.

I found a rendering of the Columbia Square project from a different angle on Kilroy's website today.

Link for the massive 10,000 x 7,000 original version http://www.kilroyrealty.com/uploads/...01223312PM.jpg

Seems to verify my previous thinking that the residential tower will have 25 floors.

DistrictDirt · #**3145** Posted **Apr 17, 2013, 5:49 PM**

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Originally Posted by blackcat23

Link for the massive 10,000 x 7,000 original version

Holy unnecessary resolution Batman! I have 3 monitors side-by-side and I still can't see the image zoomed in at full resolution. I guess Kilroy just likes wasting server space.

colemonkee · #**3146** Posted **Apr 18, 2013, 6:02 AM**

Took a drive down Sunset after a meeting tonight, and noticed construction activity on the lot immediately to the west of Siren Studios (which is more or less kitty corner from the new Emerson school building). Anyone know what's going on here?

blackcat23 · #**3147** Posted **Apr 18, 2013, 6:18 AM**

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Originally Posted by colemonkee

Took a drive down Sunset after a meeting tonight, and noticed construction activity on the lot immediately to the west of Siren Studios (which is more or less kitty corner from the new Emerson school building). Anyone know what's going on here?

It's a new sound stage. They've been at it for a few months, but it doesn't seem like they've gotten much done..

Quixote · #**3148** Posted **Apr 18, 2013, 6:56 AM**

^ A sound stage? Boooooooooooorrrrrrrriiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnggggggg...

colemonkee · #**3149** Posted **Apr 18, 2013, 2:25 PM**

A new sound stage may be boring architecturally, and do nothing for street life, but the fact that there's demand for new sound stages is a good thing for Hollywood, and LA as a region, for that matter, as those are high paying jobs. The people that buy homes. And condos. I'm all for it.

LosAngelesSportsFan · #**3150** Posted **Apr 18, 2013, 10:38 PM**

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Originally Posted by colemonkee

A new sound stage may be boring architecturally, and do nothing for street life, but the fact that there's demand for new sound stages is a good thing for Hollywood, and LA as a region, for that matter, as those are high paying jobs. The people that buy homes. And condos. I'm all for it.

exactly right my friend

Valyrian Steel · #**3151** Posted **Apr 19, 2013, 5:24 AM**

...

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Originally Posted by slipperydog

And here we go...new banners were put up today on the fencing surrounding the massive 10000 Santa Monica site.

Which means that this could soon be on the way...

blackcat23 · #**3152** Posted **Apr 19, 2013, 1:13 PM**

Wow, there hasn't been a peep about this one in quite a while. Still not a huge fan of the design, but it's nice to see some movement.

Steve2726 · #**3153** Posted **Apr 19, 2013, 1:57 PM**

I wonder what happened to this design?-

http://www.largearch.com/work/10000-santa-monica

Illithid Dude · #**3154** Posted **Apr 19, 2013, 3:15 PM**

Who knows, but frankly, the all glass design matches Century City better anyways. But very exciting nonetheless!

Anyways, LargArch has new pictures of The Village project.

blackcat23 · #**3155** Posted **Apr 20, 2013, 12:17 AM**

Sunset and Gordon is now working on the 7th floor above ground...

...and across the street, Emerson College's is now 10 floors up. Shouldn't this be topping out?

blackcat23 · #**3156** Posted **Apr 20, 2013, 1:28 AM**

http://la.curbed.com/archives/2013/0...t_to_begin.php

Hollywood's Columbia Square Downsized and Ready to Go

by Neal Broverman

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You'd have to sleep under a rock in Topanga Canyon to not know that Hollywood is on fire right now. Add the Columbia Square project to the list of big new projects moving right now: it's set to start work in a few months. The redevelopment of the historic CBS Studios on Sunset was originally approved back in 2009 with a controversial 28-story tower (that height now looks like nothing compared to the two towers of the proposed Millennium Hollywood project). Developer Kilroy Realty Group acquired the project last fall and changed up the plans--when completed the new Columbia Square will feature a 22-story residential tower with 200 apartments, 33,000 square feet of retail, three renovated historic structures, two new office buildings totaling more than 330,000 square feet of space, and four and a half levels of underground parking (more than the city requires). Maybe it's the plentiful parking, but Kilroy says the community is supportive. That goodwill likely helped things move quickly.

Quixote · #**3157** Posted **Apr 20, 2013, 1:34 AM**

^ Not a bit sad about that.

Let's get this thing started! I love this new design.

Kingofthehill · #**3158** Posted **Apr 20, 2013, 1:40 AM**

Yeah. Looks pretty good!

Illithid Dude · #**3159** Posted **Apr 20, 2013, 1:49 AM**

Looks surprisingly great, though I wish they would keep the old CBS building pink.

Steve2726 · #**3160** Posted **Apr 26, 2013, 7:03 PM**

Sounds like the release of Zumthor's LACMA plan is imminent. Will be interesting to see what time frame they come up with and if construction ends up being simultaneous with the LACMA West movie museum project.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...LEFTTopStories

If He Builds It, You Will Come
Michael Govan is the quiet powerhouse who put the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on the map. Now, with a new proposal for an ambitious museum expansion, he hopes to radically redefine how the public engages art—and shift the center of the art world west.

Govan's unorthodox plan for revealing the new design suggests the canniness that has made him, at 49, one of the highest-paid museum directors in America. Rather than taking place within the bureaucratic walls of a county planning office, Zumthor's plan will be part of a design exhibition sponsored by one of LACMA's competitors, the Getty Foundation. "The Presence of the Past: Peter Zumthor Reconsiders LACMA," opening June 9 at LACMA's Resnick Pavilion, will reveal a model of the proposal alongside a display of LACMA's checkered architectural history and a small retrospective of Zumthor's work.

Zumthor's plan, in its current form, involves removing four of LACMA's eight existing buildings—including a troublesome mishmash of mid–to–late–20th century architecture, which often compels museum-goers to duck in and out of disconnected pavilions during a visit—and replacing them with the museum of the future that Govan has been building in his head since he was an art student. Glass walls that permit the museum's art to be viewed from as far away as Wilshire Boulevard are key elements of Zumthor's prototype, which would connect other buildings—including a beloved Japanese pavilion and an Academy of Motion Pictures museum—with an indoor-outdoor art park