This piece was originally written for โAsk Silver Lake.โ โAsk Silver Lakeโ is dedicated to exploring the history and insights of our community. If you have questions or ideas youโd like us to consider, please drop a comment or send them to outreach@silverlakenc.org. On 10 October 2025, the Abundant and Affordable Homes Near Transit Act was signed into … Continue reading Ask Silver Lake โ SB 79 and Silver Lakeโs Historic Transit-Oriented Mid-Rises
Category: High Rising
Highrising — Solitary Skyscrapers of Suburbia
Fast-fashion company Bestseller recently announced their intention to build a 320-meter tall skyscraper as their headquarters in Brande -- a tiny Danish town of roughly 7,000 inhabitants. Few buildings there have more than three stories and the mostly flat skyline is punctuated with the occasional windmill or church steeple. It won't be the first such … Continue reading Highrising — Solitary Skyscrapers of Suburbia
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High Rising — Los Angeles’s Asian-American Skyscrapers
The skyline of the modern city is largely defined by its skyscrapers; those towering, gleaming symbols of the architectural ambition, developer wealth, humanity's hubris, and ย usually crowned with a corporate logo.ย Before skyscrapers, cathedrals were nearly always the tallest human-made structure; Before them, the ancient pyramids. Their symbolic (and perhaps psychosexual) importance is subconsciously understood by … Continue reading High Rising — Los Angeles’s Asian-American Skyscrapers
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High Rising — Visiting the Hotel Figueroa
Los Angeles is often characterized as an horizontal city, spread as it is across an area that could contain Boston, Cleveland, Manhattan, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, San Francisco,ย St. Louis, and several interchangeable college towns.ย Dodger Stadium'sย parking lot alone is larger than some principalities.ย Less often acknowledged is the fact that no city on Earthย is as vertical either,ย stretching as … Continue reading High Rising — Visiting the Hotel Figueroa
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California Fool’s Gold Episode Guide… and links to related series
I thought that it might be useful to publish an "episode guide" of my California Fool's Goldย series of explorations. When I explore a new community, I usually rely upon the vox populi which is why anyone may vote for what communities they'd like to become the subject of future articles by clickingย here for Los Angeles … Continue reading California Fool’s Gold Episode Guide… and links to related series
Eric Brightwell 