A gas-guzzling villain's lair': welcome to LA's grotesque new high-rise, Architecture
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Inspired by Yeats and Wagner, the (W)rapper tower was meant to reawaken the city skyline. But is this monstrous erection just a monument to its designer’s ego?
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Lair: Radical Homes and Hideouts of Movie Villains (More): Oppenheim, Chad, Gollin, Andrea, Fueyo, Carlos, Mann, Michael, Frayling, Sir Christopher, Rosa, Joseph, Murphy, Amy, Valys, Phillip: 9781732297869: : Books
Kevin Ervin Kelley, AIA on LinkedIn: 'A gas-guzzling villain's lair': welcome to LA's grotesque new high-rise
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LA Marathon this weekend, Terminal Island Freeway to park plan, and more
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From Bauhaus to Bunkers: The Aspirational Architecture of Hollywood Villainy - Metropolis
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L.A. Doesn't Need Spires. It Needs to Play Itself
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A gas-guzzling villain's lair': welcome to LA's grotesque new high-rise, Architecture
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Utopia in corduroy concrete: the mesmerising architecture of a Mexican master, Architecture
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A gas-guzzling villain's lair': welcome to LA's grotesque new high-rise, Architecture
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From Bauhaus to Bunkers: The Aspirational Architecture of Hollywood Villainy - Metropolis