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REAL ESTATE NEWS (Los Angeles, CA) — While innovative, artistic modern architecture is always bound to have many critics, many see creative building designs as a necessity for L.A., the entertainment capital of the world.

Plans for what could become one of Downtown’s most unique highrise buildings have received unanimous approval from the city’s Planning Commission. With jutting, cantilevered sections, including swimming pools on the top floors, the proposed tower, across the street from Pershing Square, has been described as looking like a Jenga game of stacked blocks. Commissioner Samantha Millman described it as “an ambitious, bold design”. The 53-story hotel and condo tower is to be built on a thin, L-shaped site, wrapping around Pershing Square, which is also owned by the towers developer, Jeffrey Fish of JMF Enterprises.

In addition to a Thrill Pool, the glassy tall tower would include several other water features, including two that would effectively hide an above-ground parking deck behind a wall of falling water. Inside the facility, 190 “five-star” hotel rooms and 31 condos would reside. Twelve of the condos, which were a particular treat, would get their own floating pool. The tower also would have connected to a popular Perch rooftop restaurant in the Pershing Square Building, located on the 13th floor.

The facility was dreamed up by Fish and designed by Miami-based firm Arquitectonica, who is also architect of the Emerson Apartments near the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Bunker Hill. Commissioners applauded the projects bold architecture and creative approach to concealing parking.

A rendering of the tower, with glass swimming pools jutting out from the top floors. A view of the project from Pershing Square. A rendering of the buildings slender Fifth Street entrance.

Above the entrance is a multi-story water feature, which was designed to shield parking levels from falling water screens. The waterfall-like feature will hide parking spaces.

But Commissioner David Ambroz said he is concerned that, if the project is approved, then sold, the design could lose its most eye-catching aspects, becoming a “short, rectangular thing”. In an effort to make it harder for the developer to change an approved design in the future, the commission asked the project be re-submitted to the commission again if it wanted a new design. Commissioner Mark Mitchell said, “Visually, this is a fabulous project, but it has a lot of other advantages.

Jenga Building Los Angeles — Due to skyscraper development happening rapidly in LA, the condition and other details about the buildings below are subject to change, more taller towers are proposed all the time, and the contents below will be updated accordingly. The Los Angeles Department of City Planning recently released the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for a proposed so-called 5th & Hill Project, which includes new renderings for an impressive 53-story tower, Urbanize.LA reports. Developer Jeffrey Fish has revealed new renderings. The proposed Fifth & Hill project would consist of 190 five-star hotel rooms and 31 apartments, rising up on a L-shaped site next to historic Pershing Square Building, also owned by developer Jeffrey Fish.

The lead designers came up with this Jenga-like tower, complete with terraces and about a dozen long, skinny acrylic-bottomed pools cantilevered off the sides of the building. Fish and architecture firm Arquitectonica came up with this Jenga-like tower with terraces and acrylic-bottom swimming pools that jut out from several sides of the building, including a few that will hover over Perch, Downtowns popular rooftop bar. Meanwhile, columns and walls surrounding New Yorks 75-foot-long swimming pool are covered with tiny metal tiles. Arquitectonica is designing the towers 53-story top floor. Originally proposed to have 57 stories, the tower is now planned to be topped at 53 stories. The two towers – one of them housing units – will be built with concrete in a prefabricated form, with some glass and metallic features. It is being developed by Related Co., and it is comprised of two towers — one residential, one hotel — and lots of restaurants and shops surrounding a central plaza above five levels of parking.

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