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Philly's Center City is unbelieveable! It's the cleanest, safest, densest, most historical downtown core I've ever seen! What an awsome skyline and urban landscape!
LA Live looks horrific, overly commercial and tacky, a true monstrosity for anybody with an eye for aesthetic urban planning. Is LA trying to be Las Vegas or a sophisticated global city? Looks like the former, except less classy, and that isn't saying much. If that is what the great architectural minds of our time can bring us, then please just let me sleep through it with a gentle mental slumber and enjoy all the other wonderful architecture which is still standing. Contributing those pictures degraded the pureness of the images coming over my internet bandwidth today, I wish I could forget I ever saw such an atrocity. It looks like somebody was reading Seventeen magazine, drank a few red bulls then vomited up allover their geometry homework.
LA Live looks horrific, overly commercial and tacky, a true monstrosity for anybody with an eye for aesthetic urban planning. Is LA trying to be Las Vegas or a sophisticated global city? Looks like the former, except less classy, and that isn't saying much. If that is what the great architectural minds of our time can bring us, then please just let me sleep through it with a gentle mental slumber and enjoy all the other wonderful architecture which is still standing. Contributing those pictures degraded the pureness of the images coming over my internet bandwidth today, I wish I could forget I ever saw such an atrocity. It looks like somebody was reading Seventeen magazine, drank a few red bulls then vomited up allover their geometry homework.
L.A. doesn't try to be any city, unlike NYC-lite by the lake.
From what was there before and what is there now I love LA Live. I like its location on the southwestern end of dt LA. It has two big hotels, lots of chain restaurants, the Grammy Museum, a movie complex, the Staple Center and hopefully an NFL stadium in a couple of years. Plus the huge convention center is right there. It also spurred new development in the area. Another new hotel hotel will start construction in 2012. I believe a new shopping complex is coming just north on Fig at 9th. LA Live brings in lots of tourist and locals to the area. I actually love the nightime lighting too.
LA Live looks horrific, overly commercial and tacky, a true monstrosity for anybody with an eye for aesthetic urban planning. Is LA trying to be Las Vegas or a sophisticated global city? Looks like the former, except less classy, and that isn't saying much.
LOL where in LA does it look like Vegas? Especially downtown?
LOL where in LA does it look like Vegas? Especially downtown?
I think he's referring to LA Live in particular. I'm not sure about the Vegas comparison (maybe a Vegas mega shopping center), but LA Live is definitely incredibly tacky and commercial. I guess that's what people want though since LA Live is successful in terms of attracting retail and residents into that part of downtown.
Still, how godawful ugly.
I just hope Philly's new sports center and Brooklyn's new Barclays Center doesn't take too many cues from LA Live because then we'll have a trend of these tacky megaplexes everywhere.
L.A. doesn't try to be any city, unlike NYC-lite by the lake.
Chicago isn't trying to be like NYC though, if you knew your history, you would know the first steel frame skyscraper was in Chicago, not NYC, and has an architectural heritage all it's own. I guess in 100 years, LA will go down as having invented the LA Live like complex, sure to be an eyesore across the country and probably will be copied in cities like Phoenix, Orlando and Riverside for battle of who can come up with the ugliest DT entertainment arena.
I think he's referring to LA Live in particular. I'm not sure about the Vegas comparison (maybe a Vegas mega shopping center), but LA Live is definitely incredibly tacky and commercial. I guess that's what people want though since LA Live is successful in terms of attracting retail and residents into that part of downtown.
Still, how godawful ugly.
I just hope Philly's new sports center and Brooklyn's new Barclays Center doesn't take too many cues from LA Live because then we'll have a trend of these tacky megaplexes everywhere.
Yeah, I've actually never been to LA Live yet... Not really my thing, I would much rather spend an afternoon on the north side of downtown.
I think he's referring to LA Live in particular. I'm not sure about the Vegas comparison (maybe a Vegas mega shopping center), but LA Live is definitely incredibly tacky and commercial. I guess that's what people want though since LA Live is successful in terms of attracting retail and residents into that part of downtown.
Still, how godawful ugly.
I just hope Philly's new sports center and Brooklyn's new Barclays Center doesn't take too many cues from LA Live because then we'll have a trend of these tacky megaplexes everywhere.
Incredibly tacky and commercial? Welcome to 21st Century America. How does that fail to describe Times Square?
Its odd because DTLA is so often criticized for its LACK of mega-corp footprint. Are Philly & Bk's new digs being done by AEG? If so, prepared to be disappointed.
LA Live is designed with the intent to make those visiting the convention center feel at home by offering the familiar comfort of crass commercialism, rather tahn the scary, unfamilair local environs of LA. Think McDonalds in Tokyo. And the tourists can't get enough of it. On the ground level it fine; people are buzzing about and doing their thing.
Incredibly tacky and commercial? Welcome to 21st Century America. How does that fail to describe Times Square?
Its odd because DTLA is so often criticized for its LACK of mega-corp footprint. Are Philly & Bk's new digs being done by AEG? If so, prepared to be disappointed.
LA Live is designed with the intent to make those visiting the convention center feel at home by offering the familiar comfort of crass commercialism, rather tahn the scary, unfamilair local environs of LA. Think McDonalds in Tokyo. And the tourists can't get enough of it. On the ground level it fine; people are buzzing about and doing their thing.
The newly changed name of Xfinity (Philly) Live NBC Sportszone will be developed by Cordish, not sure it matters but the setting is far different from LA Live (Which I visited last month and was dissapointed) At least there will be more bars/rests closer to the Stadiums
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