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A closer look into the "Wilshire Tower" by PAR, from SHELTER at the A+D Museum

By Bustler Editors|

Thursday, Aug 27, 2015

View to Hollywood Hills. Image courtesy of PAR.

What if there was a gleaming, 80-floor residential tower haphazardly placed along L.A.'s Wilshire Boulevard? That's what the Platform for Architecture + Research — or PAR — imagined for the "Shelter: Rethinking How We Live in Los Angeles" exhibition, currently at the A+D Museum until November 6. "Shelter" has fun with the possibilities that Angelenos can live in their city. It also presents constructed and in-progress housing proposals that address L.A.'s evolving cityscape.

If you get a chance to stop by the A+D Museum anytime soon, you'll find PAR's "Wilshire Tower" among several other works by firms like Bureau Spectacular, Bestor Architecture, Michael Maltzan Architecture, OMA, MAD Architects, LA Más, and more.

Scroll down to find out more about the Wilshire Tower from PAR.

Project description:

"PAR proposes a new model of high-rise courtyard housing on the LACMA Tower site, integrated with mass transit, in the central cultural district of Los Angeles. The high rise tower is an important element within the contemporary metropolis. However, towers have come to be predominantly defined by their height and, as a type, have become anonymous."

Eastward aerial view. Image courtesy of PAR.
View from Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Image courtesy of PAR.

"Typical residential towers, while successful in providing density, rarely provide living environments with individuality or access to nature, two qualities that are the essence of Los Angeles living. Our proposal acts against this endemic anonymity and repetitiveness of the recent past and puts forth a new model for the contemporary tower."

Eastward view along Wilshire Boulevard. Image courtesy of PAR.
Westward aerial view. Image courtesy of PAR.

"Its aim is to achieve, despite its size, an individual and personal character comprised of a stack of individual houses in which each house is unique and identifiable with a direct connection to nature."

All images courtesy of PAR.

More project images in the thumbnail gallery below.

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A closer look into the "Wilshire Tower" by PAR, from SHELTER at the A+D Museum

By Bustler Editors|

Thursday, Aug 27, 2015

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View to Hollywood Hills. Image courtesy of PAR.

Related

urban living ● tower ● shelter ● residential ● platform for architecture + research ● par ● los angeles ● glass ● exhibition ● california ● a+d museum ● a+d architecture and design museum

What if there was a gleaming, 80-floor residential tower haphazardly placed along L.A.'s Wilshire Boulevard? That's what the Platform for Architecture + Research — or PAR — imagined for the "Shelter: Rethinking How We Live in Los Angeles" exhibition, currently at the A+D Museum until November 6. "Shelter" has fun with the possibilities that Angelenos can live in their city. It also presents constructed and in-progress housing proposals that address L.A.'s evolving cityscape.

If you get a chance to stop by the A+D Museum anytime soon, you'll find PAR's "Wilshire Tower" among several other works by firms like Bureau Spectacular, Bestor Architecture, Michael Maltzan Architecture, OMA, MAD Architects, LA Más, and more.

Scroll down to find out more about the Wilshire Tower from PAR.

Project description:

"PAR proposes a new model of high-rise courtyard housing on the LACMA Tower site, integrated with mass transit, in the central cultural district of Los Angeles. The high rise tower is an important element within the contemporary metropolis. However, towers have come to be predominantly defined by their height and, as a type, have become anonymous."

Eastward aerial view. Image courtesy of PAR.
View from Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Image courtesy of PAR.

"Typical residential towers, while successful in providing density, rarely provide living environments with individuality or access to nature, two qualities that are the essence of Los Angeles living. Our proposal acts against this endemic anonymity and repetitiveness of the recent past and puts forth a new model for the contemporary tower."

Eastward view along Wilshire Boulevard. Image courtesy of PAR.
Westward aerial view. Image courtesy of PAR.

"Its aim is to achieve, despite its size, an individual and personal character comprised of a stack of individual houses in which each house is unique and identifiable with a direct connection to nature."

All images courtesy of PAR.

More project images in the thumbnail gallery below.

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