Unbuilt Los Angeles: the city that might have been – in pictures | Cities | The Guardian
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Los Angeles Civic Center – 1925 – Lloyd Wright
Wright’s proposal, submitted to the Los Angeles Times in 1925, consisted of terraced walkways flanked by rows of Mayan Revival government buildings. City Hall would sit at the top of this temple-like complex, while sunken roads, subterranean train tunnels, and rooftop helipads would manage movement in and out of the city. Anaïs Nin, who visited Wright’s studio in the late 1940s, wrote in her diary: ‘I saw [his] plans for LA. It could have been the most beautiful city in the world.’ All images courtesy of Metropolis Books
