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'Like a sunset' — developers propose
a Hollywood office tower with a
bold sculptural design

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Posted By: konocti95, 9/16/2021 8:43:48 PM

Developers will file an application with the city of Los Angeles on Thursday to build what they hope will be a visually stunning, $500-million high-rise on Sunset Boulevard in the heart of Hollywood called the Star. The proposed 22-story glass-skinned office tower would create its own bubble-like world with garden levels open to the elements on the 10th and 17th floors and an enclosed landscaped rooftop with a restaurant, all served by a funicular tram traveling up and down the sides of the tower.   CORRECTION*

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Reply 1 - Posted by: konocti95 9/16/2021 8:49:16 PM (No. 916948)
Good Grief!!! The restaurant will go out of business in a month. No woman will want to go there because the shape of the mirrored building will make them look fat.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Quigley 9/16/2021 8:53:35 PM (No. 916951)
I thought Absentia of cortex didn’t want any windows. It doesn’t look very efficient. I guess it will melt all the glaciers. Oh well bringing the world to an end is a small price to pay for a project that will bring lots of bribes to Dims.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: earlybird 9/16/2021 8:56:43 PM (No. 916954)
Have all the merry seismologists had a look at this monstrosity?
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Come And Take It 9/16/2021 9:05:14 PM (No. 916959)
Chinese crap.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: enemyofthestate 9/16/2021 9:12:33 PM (No. 916962)
Uhhhh...... one good earthquake, one good earthquake, and what would happen to this building? How deep would the shards of glass be on the streets below?
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Citoyen 9/16/2021 9:23:04 PM (No. 916969)
While the verbal description of this tower caused me to hope the structure would be attractive the visual didn’t move me. Still, the outdoor spaces may be wonderful. I hope by the time it is erected that the rulers of LA have all been voted out. The city right now is more dysfunctional than San Francisco.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: pensom2 9/16/2021 9:38:48 PM (No. 916982)
One wonders whether the architects consulted with the window washing companies in Los Angeles as to how feasible it might be to hang suspended window-washing scaffolding from this structure in order to clean the accumulated window grime from the exterior surfaces.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: downnout 9/16/2021 9:41:11 PM (No. 916985)
The San Andreas fault is getting ready…
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Reply 9 - Posted by: pmcclure 9/16/2021 9:45:36 PM (No. 916991)
The sun has already set on Hollywood.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: panther361 9/16/2021 10:56:03 PM (No. 917033)
Better idea. Move Hollywood out of the state entirely.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: jimincalif 9/16/2021 11:00:34 PM (No. 917035)
And it will be surrounded by homeless encampments!
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Reply 12 - Posted by: PChristopher 9/16/2021 11:25:08 PM (No. 917045)
I wonder in which direction it will flop when the earthquake hits?
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Newtsche 9/16/2021 11:25:31 PM (No. 917046)
What is that, a giant Viagra pill?
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Reply 14 - Posted by: Birddog 9/16/2021 11:54:09 PM (No. 917059)
Stray bullets? What then?...even empty barns in the middle of nowhere get their windows shot out by wayward boys, that just like the Bang!/shatter/Tinkle effect.That part of Town is FULL of wayward boys.(Particularly on New Years eve and July 4th) Santa Ana winds???
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Reply 15 - Posted by: Califedup 9/17/2021 5:51:18 AM (No. 917191)
It would be much more fitting if this high rise was designed to look like a giant human poop overlooking the feces strewn communist death democrats cesspool California and in particular Hollywood has become. Who in their right mind would invest a single dollar in California?
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