For more than 40 years, #Eric #Owen #Moss #Architects and developers #Samitaur #Constructs have been creating a compilation of more than 30 rugged, deconstructed structures at #Hayden #Tract, a former heavy manufacturing hub in #Culver #City, California.

The stream of experimental edifices—many filled by creative and tech firms—have short, catchy names like #Pterodactyl, #Beehive, #Dune, #Stealth, #Waffle, and #Umbrella.

As the area has filled up, it’s begun expanding eastward (along with a number of unrelated projects) across Ballona Creek into Los Angeles, where yet another mini city is starting to aggregate near the La Cienega Expo Line light rail station, which opened in 2012.

By far the biggest building of the bunch (its height allowance came thanks to the addition of transit in the area) is the recently completed (W)rapper, a 17-story, 235-foot-tall tower that initially gained approval back in 2001 but was delayed by a series of setbacks that included the 2008 recession and a multi-year peer review necessitated by the fact that the planning department had basically never seen anything like it

https://metropolismag.com/projects/eric-owen-moss-architects-wrapper-building-rises-in-culver-city/