Trio of high-rise towers announced for Downtown L.A
Georgina Huljich, Assistant Adjunct Professor
Department of Architecture and Urban Design Assistant Adjunct Professor Georgina Huljich is principal of P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S, the architecture firm that, alongside Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill, has unveiled skyline-transforming plans for the Olympia Towers in Downtown Los Angeles.
"Architects Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill (SOM), P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S, and developer City Century have unveiled renderings for a trio of high-rise, mixed-use towers in Downtown Los Angeles’s bustling entertainment district.
The newly-revealed mega-project is called Olympia and is billed to include 1,367 residential units, 40,000 square feet of retail space, and 115,000 square feet of open space. Those programmatic components will be distributed across a trio of towers rising 43-, 53-, and 65-stories in height that will be positioned over a 3.25-acre site at the intersection of Olympic Boulevard and Georgia Street. The project will be sandwiched between the L.A. Live sports and entertainment complex and the Gensler-designed Metropolis mega-development, a similar mixed-use project containing luxury housing and shopping amenities.
The Olympia project is being designed by SOM and P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S and will feature glass-clad residential floors with over-sized floor plates expressed across the facades of the rectilinear towers. Those floorplates shift in and out at various intervals and contain outdoor amenity spaces at various heights."— Antonio Pacheco, December 23
Read the full article at the Architect's Newspaper website
Read more about this project in Curbed L.A., Urbanize L.A., the Los Angeles Times, and DeZeen.