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Los Angeles, feast your eyes on the new finalized rendering of Wilshire Grand Tower from AC Martin that will rise prominently in Downtown LA s burgeoning Financial District. So prominent, in fact, that the new billion dollar tower will surpass LA s current tallest skyscraper hertz rental car promotions specials Library Tower (aka US Bank Tower) at 1,018 feet as the new tallest on the West Coast (taller than any other structure west of Chicago). At 73 floors and 1,100 feet tall including the spire, which counts toward the building s official height according to the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, the new Wilshire Grand Tower will be a substantial addition hertz rental car promotions specials to the LA skyline, reorienting the visual weight currently centered around hertz rental car promotions specials the Library Tower toward this new gleaming structure to the southwest. The tower will be capped by an iconic sail-shaped architectural feature that will be illuminated with LED lighting at night (a common sight in Asia s flagship cities like Shanghai).
The Wilshire Grand Tower is being developed through a partnership with the building owner, global shipping giant Hanjin Group, which also owns Korean Air, and one of LA s most prolific and renowned architectural hertz rental car promotions specials firms, AC Martin. The new tower will include a yet-to-be-determined hertz rental car promotions specials 900-room, 4-star hotel (rumors pointed at Le Meridien last year) taking up the upper floors with a unique sky lobby on the 70th floor where hotel guests will arrive in less than a minute hertz rental car promotions specials in one of the fastest dual high-speed elevators in the world, according to Chris Martin, CEO of AC Martin. From there, hotel guests through a top-down approach will access their rooms from taking elevators down from the lobby. In addition, the tower will include 400,000 square feet of office space below the hotel floors.
On the ground level, which is where the bulk of people will interact with the structure, there will be 45,000 square feet of commercial retail space that will become a center for fine dining and luxury retailers. Also located directly across the street from LA s busiest subway station, 7th/Metro, a pedestrian friendly, beautifully landscaped hertz rental car promotions specials plaza [will] provide open space and promote community among hotel guests, business owners, downtown residents and civic leaders, according to the Wilshire Grand website.
The biggest game changing feature of all about The Wilshire Grand Tower will be the absence of the traditional helipad seen on all modern high-rises in Los Angeles. (There is still a smaller inconspicuous helipad on the sail that will allow a helicopter to land in emergencies.) hertz rental car promotions specials Because of a fire building code (titled the Emergency Helicopter Landing Facility ), all modern high-rises in Los Angeles built after 1974 have flat roofs, which have given LA its uniform stumpy skyline without defining hertz rental car promotions specials landmark towers seen so commonly in major cities around the world. The Wilshire Grand Tower will set a new precedent as it will have a sail-shaped roof line accentuated with a architectural spire.
How was this done? The change was allowed hertz rental car promotions specials by the LA Fire Department due to new advances in building technology involving the structure s elevator shafts to be reinforced hertz rental car promotions specials within a concrete hertz rental car promotions specials core, called hardened elevators, which actually elevates the fire safety standard making the building even safer in emergency situations. In this building, you actually hertz rental car promotions specials take the elevator in an emergency, not the stairs.
Last October, hertz rental car promotions specials city officials gathered in front of the vacated Wilshire Grand Hotel at 7th and Figueroa for a press event to kick-off the start of demolition work to dismantle the hotel down floor-by-floor a year-long process slated for completion this fall. Anyone hertz rental car promotions specials walking by the Wilshire Grand Hotel recently has seen green tarp covering many portions hertz rental car promotions specials of the building as construction crews are actively taking apart the 15-story hotel.
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I m disappointed about the height and floor count. They re entitled to go up to 1250 ft, but go only to 1100 ft? Also 73 floors, really? The should have taken it up at least to the 90th floor. hertz rental car promotions specials The building looks cool but the execution as usual in this city is not quite as good as it could be.
PH- Its not just about building as high as possible (although I would like to see that as much as you). Its about making the project hertz rental car promotions specials pencil out. 73 floors is probably the height that maximized the investors return.
They could have added a couple extra floors (which I don t think would shake their returns too much), increased the crown and spire height so squeeze another 100-150 ft out. They went this far but stop short.
wow this is a GORGEOUS building!! FINALLY downtown LA gets a modern, beautifully designed skyscraper that this city has desperately needed for so long. It looks beautiful and is just as nice as any high rise in a modern city like NY, hong kong or singapore. Looks like downtown LA is finally starting to establish itself as a modern world class city!
This might fall under the Too soon to ask category, but is there any word if there will be direct subway access from this development? Walking across the street to catch the redline is not going to work for me :)
Good point. In my travels in Asia, many podiums (the base of a high-rise) contained multiple hertz rental car promotions specials floors hertz rental car promotions specials of retail, essentially a shopping mall. These are common in residential hi-rises out in Asia. Let s hope the the retail base alone in this project magnifies the street life around it
With this new building right across from the 7th/Metro subway station (HSBC building), they should put some sort of pedestrian bridge or skyway that connects hertz rental car promotions specials this building with the subway portal. It would alleviate all the crosswalk traffic and waiting for the signals.
@John G. \i think any connection with this building hertz rental car promotions specials would best be underground. you could activate an underground passage with retail, much like you see in japan. of course, this isnt going to happen, but just thinking hertz rental car promotions specials outloud. if any station in los angeles could pull off some underground retail/mall, it would be 7th/metro.
hertz rental car promotions specials Hey, if the builders of this magnificent building are using any bricks as decoration Please check at the Staples Arena. The Lakers have been throwing plenty of them and there should be a plentiful supply.
Perhaps now people can just walk. But from my travel hertz rental car promotions specials experiencs as the area grows and foot traffic increases, those walkways (whether above or underground) will have a huge impact. Remember, we are talking about a subway portal with tons of people 24/7 (well, almost), not a bus stop or taxi drop-off
If a premier office building and hotel is located that close to a main subway station, it s just barely conceivable that visitors to town will take the subway to it. Nobody wants to hustle luggage through a crosswalk across Figueroa. A direct entrance to the building from the subway will accommodate that. As others have noted, that s commonplace in Asia and not even that uncommon in the US both Bloomingdales in NY and Filenes in Boston have direct access from their adjoining subway stops.
I don t think it s tall enough to have a perfect view of the LA Basin. Without the spire, this building will be much shorter than the US Bank Tower. A few of the surrounding buildings will perhaps block the view below and around. However, this is a very nice building and will greatly affect the look of the skyline. Can t wait!
It certainly is. There are many buildings in downtown with views of the ocean that are only 20 stories or so. (EVO in South Park for example). The real downtown skyscrapers have insane views in all directions.
I agree. I live in an 8 story building in Koreatown that happens to be at the top of a small hill, and we can see the entire basin from the roof, and even the ocean and Catalina Island on a clear day.
Someone asks if the spire is over 90 feet long. In fact, if you take the length hertz rental car promotions specials of the spire (just estimate its size by placing a simple ruler over the corresponding section of the photo) and superimpose it upon the number of floors in the building, it will equal about 11 stories. Assuming each floor is no less than 10 feet (and is probably more than that), and then multiplying that by 11, the spire ends up a good deal taller than 100 feet.
this is one awsome looking skyscraper L.A. with the first skyscraper with a spire,and just this first one that there getting already looks better than alot of other ones around diffrent cities.. can t imagine the way it s gonna look in a couple of years later. it s gonna be the most dominate skyline .
That being said, if they stuck a flagpole on top of the Library Tower, it could become the tallest again. And then there would be a pissing match between the two buildings, trying to constantly hertz rental car promotions specials outdo each other by adding extra things to their toothpick and flagpole, to which we would all be amazed at.
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat determine whether or not a pointy thing is considered a spire or antennae. In this case, it s pretty obvious it s a spire, which will count toward the height. In fact, here s an article on the Council on Tall Buildings website about Wilshire Grand Tower becoming the tallest on the West Coast, taller than the future Transbay in SF.
Not to change the subject, San Francisco also has the 975 foot tall Sutro Transmission Tower. Less impressive but worth noting, there is also a 972 foot tall KCBS Transmission Tower just outside Los Angeles atop Mount Wilson.
I agree with the comment that the US Bank tower is a much more interesting and unique design. This building would be more at home somewhere in China. The stated height is also very misleading, with the