California
Company forms, skyscrapers progress in L.A., San Francisco and Oakland.
Luxury Residential Skyscraper Completed in San Francisco The Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) has completed its 56-story glass tower in San Francisco’s Transbay District, the Council on Tall Buildings and...
Tower development continues in L.A., and a major transit upgrade is greenlit in San Francisco.
Tree-Inspired Tower to Gain Height A new mixed-use tower planned for downtown Los Angeles may be taller than the original proposal, the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH)...
Plans move forward for tall buildings concentrating in the downtown area.
New Renderings of Jenga-Like Tower for Downtown New renderings of a Jenga-like, 53-story, 789-ft.-tall mixed-use tower designed by Arquitectonica on a site that wraps around the historic Pershing Square Building...
Downtown continues to simmer with activity.
Residential Tower to Make Heavy Use of Greenery Developer Crescent Heights and architecture firm ODA have released new renderings of 1045 South Olive, a 70-story residential tower planned for downtown...
Tallest Building West of the Mississippi Planned in L.A.
Shenzhen New World Group and Dimarzio | Kato Architecture hope to build a 77-story, 1,100-ft.-tall mixed-use tower at 333 South Figueroa Street in Los Angeles that would strip the Wilshire...
ASME Meets, Approves Communication System Proposal
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) held elevator code meetings on May 14-17 in Palm Springs, California. The ASME A17 Standards committee and several other committees met to continue...
Transformative projects on the table
Complex With 88-Story Tower to Transform L.A. Hillside Site The former hillside location of Angels Knoll Park in Los Angeles is set to be transformed into a 1.26-million-sq.-ft., mixed-use development...
Residential space coming to South Park, downtown.
31-, 40-Story Apartment Towers to Open in South Park in 2019 Thirty-one and 40-story apartment towers containing 730 units in downtown’s South Park area are expected to welcome residents in...
L.A., San Diego see big investments.
Elevators, Escalators, Moving Walks Part of LAX Expansion Elevators, escalators and moving walks linking a new, US$2.7-billion automated people mover (APM) to various floors of expanded terminals at Los Angeles...
L.A., Oakland are targets for tall developments.
Mixed-Use Project Going Up on Site of Former L.A. Park The Los Angeles City Council has approved the sale of Angels Knoll, a closed city park on the edge of...
