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Plaza Tower (for a time dubbed Crescent City Towers and Crescent City Residences in a failed proposed redevelopment scheme) is a 45-story, 531-foot (162 m) skyscraper in New Orleans, Louisiana, designed in the modern style by Leonard R. Spangenberg, Jr. & Associates.
Stage and screen actress Alla Nazimova leased Hayvenhurst from William Hay not long after she moved to Los Angeles from New York in 1918. She purchased it outright in 1919. [ 5 ] Nazimova jokingly called her new home "The Garden of Alla", which was a reference to her own name and the best-selling 1904 novel The Garden of Allah , by British ...
The oil boom of the late 1970s and early 1980s led to more construction of high-rises in New Orleans, with the completion of 17 of the city's 40 tallest buildings. Today, the high-rises of New Orleans are clustered along Canal Street and Poydras Street in the Central Business District. Poydras Street in particular has emerged as the city's ...
Ten Thousand is a 40-story residential skyscraper located at 10000 Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles. [4] [5] [6] The high-rise tower, built by developer Crescent Heights and was designed by Handel Architects, [7] opened in 2017 with 283 luxury apartments and a maximum height of 483 feet. [1]
The B. W. Cooper Public Housing Development, also known as The Calliope Projects, was a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans and one of the housing projects of New Orleans. This project of New Orleans gained notoriety for its extremely high violent crime rate. It was demolished in 2014 and replaced with newer, mixed-income apartment buildings.
Los Altos was built in 1925 and designed by Edward B. Rust and Luther Mayo. In 1999, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.The Spanish Colonial building began as Los Angeles' first co-op, including a 3300 square foot, two-story suite for William Randolph Hearst and Marion Davies as their city flat.
Garden Court Apartments was designed by Frank Meline and built in 1916 [1] or 1917, [2] at the behest of J.E. Ransford. The complex was considered high luxury for its time, and featured tennis courts , ballrooms , a billiard room , and suites furnished with oriental carpets , oil paintings , and grand pianos .