• ‘A gas-guzzling villain’s lair’: welcome to LA’s grotesque new high-rise

    ‘A gas-guzzling villain’s lair’: welcome to LA’s grotesque new high-rise
    Inspired by Yeats, Wagner and French realist painting, the (W)rapper tower was meant to reawaken the city skyline. But is this monstrous erection just a monument to its designer’s ego?A chunky grey staircase thrusts out from the side of a new office tower in Los Angeles, lunging towards a rail line before jerking back on itself and lurching up the building in jagged twists and turns. It crashes into a warped lattice of bands that wrap around the glassy hulk, swooping past corner windows th

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