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After Los Angeles County bought a skyscraper, a fight over whether to tear down its historic headquarters
With the ink dry on the County of Los Angeles' $200-million purchase ... against a plan to move workers into the newly purchased skyscraper on Bunker Hill and raze the Kenneth Hahn Hall of ...
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James Hetfield's 1953 Buick Skylark "Skyscraper": A Symphony of Metal and Machine
When Metallica's frontman, James Hetfield, isn't electrifying audiences with his music, he's channeling his creative energy ...
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Man walks slackline atop downtown Los Angeles graffiti skyscrapers
A man was seen scaling a downtown Los Angeles skyscraper, a site that has been vacant for several years and has attracted graffiti artists who have tagged over 25 stories. A video from YouTuber ...
Nail polish mogul sets record with $39M Century City penthouse buy
Record price gives former OPI executive Miriam Schaeffer full-floor unit with gold-leaf ceilings and ebony walls.
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With Los Angeles in need of housing, downtown’s empty office towers have appeal
Since the pandemic, much of the office space in downtown Los Angeles has remained empty ... the eye-catching skyscrapers built in the late 1980s and early 1990s have mostly remained offices.
What Kind of Los Angeles Will Rise From the Fires?
The city faces a choice: remake itself into something largely familiar or take a bolder path and emerge as a new metropolis.
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Letters to the Editor: After the fires, we need to talk about L.A.’s absentee landowners
Rebecca Tuynman, Pasadena To the editor: Los Angeles should take the unfinished Oceanwide Plaza skyscrapers in downtown L.A. off the market. Partner with the county to finish the project and ...
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How Los Angeles Created the Vocabulary of Its Destruction
In 1923, Los Angeles was a dry, desert city of Art Deco skyscrapers and Modernist homes clinging to the hillsides of her craggy neighborhoods, an urban landscape of coyotes and bobcats.