Project index / Los Angeles

What could rise next.

The boldest proposals, checked against their official planning records. Renderings show the ambition; status labels show how far reality has caught up.

Environmental review: 1
Approved: 2
Supplemental review: 1
Draft EIR: 1

Environmental review · Hollywood

A 29-story garden spiral is proposed for Sunset Boulevard

Foster + Partners' redesigned Hollywood office tower wraps a 460-foot workplace in planted terraces. The entitlement file is still in environmental review.

Rendering of The Star, a white spiraling tower wrapped in planted terraces on Sunset Boulevard

Rendering: Foster + Partners. Rendering published by the project team on the official project website.

Approved · Downtown Los Angeles

Fourth & Central would add ten buildings to the edge of Downtown

The $2 billion district proposes more than 1,500 homes, offices, shops, and public space across 7.6 acres between Little Tokyo and Skid Row.

Dusk aerial rendering of the Fourth and Central district and its towers beside Downtown Los Angeles

Rendering: TMRW / Studio One Eleven. Rendering reproduced on the City Planning PVP presentation's Renderings page; the original TMRW creator mark remains visible.

Approved · Fairfax

Television City is approved to grow into an all-electric studio campus

The Fairfax production landmark can add soundstages, offices, and public-facing space under a long-range master plan designed by Foster + Partners, RIOS, and Adamson Associates.

Rendering of an active movie lot lined by landscaped production buildings at Television City in Fairfax

Rendering: Foster + Partners / Television City. Rendering published in RIOS's official project portfolio and credited there to Foster + Partners and Television City.

Supplemental review · Chinatown / Elysian Park

The Dodger Stadium gondola is back in planning after a new environmental review

The privately funded aerial line would connect Union Station, Los Angeles State Historic Park, and Dodger Stadium in about seven minutes.

Rendering of enclosed gondola cabins traveling above Los Angeles toward Dodger Stadium

Rendering: LA Aerial Rapid Transit / LA Metro. Project rendering distributed on LA Metro's official project page.

Draft EIR · Miracle Mile

A 46-story apartment tower would rise behind Wilshire's historic storefronts

The Miracle Mile proposal pairs 419 homes, including 47 extremely low-income units, with the retention of four contributing buildings along Wilshire Boulevard.

Street-level rendering of a residential tower rising behind retained storefronts at Wilshire and Cloverdale

Rendering: MVE + Partners. Figure 4 from the public Initial Study, credited in the city record to MVE + Partners (2022).