Uninspired Architecture not just a Boise Plight
For years people have complained about all the “brown boxes” in Boise’s downtown, but no, we’re not the only one complaining about our drab architecture. A gleaming, 54 story glass box now graces the L.A. skyline, the first skyscraper completed in that city since 1992 - and the critics don’t like it. Says L.A. Times architectural critic Christopher Hawthorne:
As far as architectural ambition goes, though, the building makes a faint, even passive impression, despite the diverting patterns on its facade. It is more focused on operating as a glossy vertical marker for L.A. Live — and the tower is hard to miss from any of downtown’s freeways — than on exploring a fresh or idiosyncratic path for high-rise design in L.A.
Maybe the city of Los Angeles would like to trade L.A. Live for our Grove Hotel?
Read the whole story at the L.A. Times site.
Tags: Architecture, L.A.
California, Development | admin February 13, 2010
