Frank Gehry's mixed-use Sunset Strip scheme approved by city planners
The Los Angeles City Council has unanimously approved a mixed-use development, designed in typically striking style by Frank Gehry, on the eastern edge of the city’s Sunset Strip.
According to the LA Times, the five-building complex – earmarked for a site on 8150 Sunset Boulevard – was approved at a meeting of the council’s Planning and Land Use Committee last week, despite objections to the height, density and impact of the scheme from some local residents being raised in a previous three-hour long meeting.
Developed by real estate company Townscape Partners, the project will include terraced gardens, a market, restaurants, a public plaza, a shopping centre and two residential towers – the tallest of which has been reduced to 178ft in a bid to appease critics of the design’s height.
The design features Gehry signatures, including an abundance of curving lines and sculptural facades.
The project could be constructed at the same time as Gwyneth Paltrow’s planned Arts Club a mile further along the boulevard, with that project – designed by architects Gensler – set to be considered by city planners in the near future.
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