This is L.A.'s latest "creative office tower".
— Culture Critic (@Culture_Crit) May 10, 2023
Why do they do this to us? pic.twitter.com/YWnGmVQlVt
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This is L.A.'s latest "creative office tower".
— Culture Critic (@Culture_Crit) May 10, 2023
Why do they do this to us? pic.twitter.com/YWnGmVQlVt
That looks like an architect's CGI of a proposed building, because architects don't live in the real world as opposed to construction engineers. If it's real, it'll be a real humdinger to be in when the next Big One hits.
ReplyDeleteBoth Tracey Kidder's House and Jonathan Pollan's A Place of My Own cover some of the questionable attitudes and designs of modern architects. One gains the impression that many of them don't like humans and resent that their creations must accommodate them.
ReplyDeleteThat is, if you didn't already have that impression from examining Brutalism or considering Le Corbusier's ghastly "Machines for Living" philosophy.
Tom Wolfe's From Bauhaus to Our House is highly recommended.
ReplyDeleteI wonder what it'll look like when they finish it.
ReplyDeleteHaw! I think some stucco would fix it right up.
ReplyDeleteHundertwasser meets Soviet brutalist. I see it comes with a river view--of the Los Angeles River, the ugliest river ever built by man. So it fits right in with the neighborhood.
ReplyDeleteThe shredded style could have been inspired by The Day After Tomorrow, which had Hollywood ripped apart by tornadoes.
ReplyDeleteThink of the folks who okayed that mess.
ReplyDeleteThis world has a serious lack of people who say, "Maybe that isn't such a good idea."
Instead we have people in positions of authority who want to do anything but what normal folks would think is okay.