Hollywood and Vermont Opportunity

A worn and underutilized commercial center built in the mid-20th century fails to take advantage of excellent opportunities for re-building and re-imagining

Site and Location Advantages

--zoning incentives for increased density

--325 feet to subway portal and located on major bus lines

--frontage on improved major highway category streets

--adjacent to strong commercial street with theaters and book stores

--vibrant independent entrepreneurial commercial neighborhood

--adjacent to cultural landmarks

--walking distance to regional park with cultural monument

The cultural monument, Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock House, is not only a City and National Monument but recently designated a UNESCO World Heritage site.  The existing commercial center below it does not take advantage of its proximity to the Hollyhock House but instead blocks access and views of the monument's site.

Cell Phone Towers -- Community Markers and Designs

In the rush for updating equipment to provide more data and phone capacity, wireless providers appear to leave little room for creativity in the design of their transmission towers.  Even the number of their fake tree designs, (mono-pines, mono-palms, etc.) are limited.

The drawings below represent two ideas:

1.  Cell phone towers are an opportunity to identify the community they are located in by simply writing the name of the community on it 

2.  There should be a broader menu of "standardized" towers for communities to choose from

The above two towers takes its design from the lighted translucent cylinders

 that mark the entrance to LAX.

The City of Los Angeles and its namesake image has an opportunity to welcome a host of "angels" flying over and marking its different neighborhoods below