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December 4, 2006
After 20 Years, Rooms With a View
Downtown's Longtime Laughingstock High-Rise, 1100 Wilshire, Is Reborn As a Condo Complex
Los Angeles Downtown News
By Evan George
It's good enough for a 20-year-old canard in Downtown LA, but not an architectural treasure from Brooklyn's industrial era?
Read about how Forest City has renovated an abandoned office building into chic new condos.
Like an ugly duckling in its awkward teenage years, the triangular glass skyscraper at 1100 Wilshire has stuck out since it was built in 1986 as an office building. It's been called names, and though it had multiple suitors, it was never occupied. Architect Daniel Gehman in the penthouse of 1100 Wilshire, the condominium complex that opened last month. The building had been empty for 20 years. Photo by Gary Leonard.
Now, after a two-year conversion to high-end condominiums, the 20-year-old building hopes to transform into a swan.
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Late last month, city officials granted an occupancy permit for 1100 Wilshire to the development team of Forest City Residential West, TMG Partners and MacFarlane Partners. They worked with three different architecture firms on various sections of the building. Thomas P. Cox Architects Inc. was enlisted to convert the interior units, Johnson Fain handled the common areas and AC Martin Partners, which originally designed the structure, was brought back as executive consultant.
If you haven't seen it already, Brooklyn Speaks makes the case to save the Ward Bakery building from Ratner's bulldozers.
Posted by lumi at December 4, 2006 8:00 AM