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blackcat23 · #**7981** Posted **Sep 21, 2016, 7:55 PM**

Crane goes up for Related's Yucca/Argyle tower

colemonkee · #**7982** Posted **Sep 21, 2016, 10:09 PM**

^ This one's actually a reasonably nice design. The same can't be said for the Argyle Hotel nearby. Which was clearly designed by an aesthetic sadist.

King Kill 'em · #**7983** Posted **Sep 22, 2016, 6:33 AM**

^Yes. Usually I'm pretty ok with a lot of the alright looking new buildings people on here hate on, but the new Argyle Hotel is awful looking. Feels like a prison.

blackcat23 · #**7984** Posted **Sep 22, 2016, 3:52 PM**

Hotel + residential development planned at 8th/Western

Doctorboffin · #**7985** Posted **Sep 22, 2016, 6:45 PM**

Is Millennium Hollywood still happening? I haven't heard news from that site in like a year.

blackcat23 · #**7986** Posted **Sep 23, 2016, 4:43 AM**

Plans filed for Amoeba redevelopment

LosAngelesSportsFan · #**7987** Posted **Sep 27, 2016, 8:48 PM**

The horrible lot on Riverside Dr between Griffith Park and Fletcher that has been a permanent tagging wall for a decade is finally beginning construction.

It will be 157 units and the developer has agreed to install landscaped medians on Riverside

https://www.theeastsiderla.com/2016/...verside-drive/

Eightball · #**7988** Posted **Sep 27, 2016, 10:17 PM**

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Originally Posted by colemonkee

^ This one's actually a reasonably nice design.

Arguably great except for the parking podium portion of the building.

King Kill 'em · #**7989** Posted **Sep 28, 2016, 12:08 AM**

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Originally Posted by LosAngelesSportsFan

The horrible lot on Riverside Dr between Griffith Park and Fletcher that has been a permanent tagging wall for a decade is finally beginning construction.

It will be 157 units and the developer has agreed to install landscaped medians on Riverside

https://www.theeastsiderla.com/2016/...verside-drive/

I'd love to see the grading if someone would be willing to go take some pics there.

blackcat23 · #**7990** Posted **Sep 28, 2016, 4:00 PM**

Large mixed-use development planned off Wilshire

colemonkee · #**7991** Posted **Sep 28, 2016, 4:43 PM**

Hmmm, 641 units in two buildings probably means 20-ish story towers, similar to their 23-story twin tower development on the next block. If all of this moves forward (which in my opinion is a bit of a long-shot, but still possible), it would start a transformation of this area into a truly dense transit-oriented mixed use neighborhood that could be the model moving forward as we expand our rail network. Towers don't need to be tall for dense neighborhoods to develop, but developing densely within a 1/4 mile to a 1/2 mile of heavy rail stops should be the modus operandi moving forward.

NSMP · #**7992** Posted **Sep 28, 2016, 5:19 PM**

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Originally Posted by colemonkee

Hmmm, 641 units in two buildings probably means 20-ish story towers, similar to their 23-story twin tower development on the next block. If all of this moves forward (which in my opinion is a bit of a long-shot, but still possible), it would start a transformation of this area into a truly dense transit-oriented mixed use neighborhood that could be the model moving forward as we expand our rail network. Towers don't need to be tall for dense neighborhoods to develop, but developing densely within a 1/4 mile to a 1/2 mile of heavy rail stops should be the modus operandi moving forward.

Ktown is making good use of its 3 Purple Line stops (and Vermont/Beverly will get in on the action someday, I hope).

blackcat23 · #**7993** Posted **Sep 28, 2016, 6:03 PM**

New renderings for Pasadena's 100 West Walnut

Doctorboffin · #**7994** Posted **Sep 28, 2016, 6:06 PM**

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Originally Posted by blackcat23

New renderings for Pasadena's 100 West Walnut

I wish it was all red brick instead of the tan brick, but it look alright. Not Palmer at least.

blackcat23 · #**7995** Posted **Sep 29, 2016, 4:13 PM**

First glimpse of two towers planned near Wilshire/Normandie Station

Doctorboffin · #**7996** Posted **Sep 29, 2016, 4:57 PM**

Ugh they are keeping the parking garage?

colemonkee · #**7997** Posted **Sep 29, 2016, 6:20 PM**

Gruen & Associates - listed as the architects in those elevation drawings - has some different renders on their web site. Scale and massing look to be the same, but overall design is different. I wonder which one is the most recent iteration of the design. Either way, if this is built, it looks like a 32-story, roughly 320 ft tall tower (though difficult to tell from the fonts in the elevations), if not taller. GREAT for that area and will stand out.

Image Source: Gruen & Associates

Quixote · #**7998** Posted **Sep 29, 2016, 7:02 PM**

Dang. Koreatown, Westlake, and City West seem to be really heating up.

Doctorboffin · #**7999** Posted **Sep 29, 2016, 7:54 PM**

^^Nice height, horrible design, and terrible parking garage. I wish they could just shove it or at lease part of it underground and put a park on top.

colemonkee · #**8000** Posted **Sep 29, 2016, 8:07 PM**

The parking garage doesn't bother me as much as it does other people as it's mid-block and is activated at ground level. So not as egregious from my point of view. As for design, it's not the greatest, but looks decent enough. Though I'd love to see renders of the elevations that blackcat posted.