Views from a Top of the Skyscraper Index
by MN Gordon
Rude Realizations
On a warm Friday Los Angeles morning in spring of 2016, we found ourselves standing at the busy corner of Wilshire Boulevard and South Figueroa Street. We were walking back to our office following a client wire brushing for events beyond our control. But we had other thoughts on our mind.
Amongst a mob of pedestrians, we gazed up at the skeleton frame of what would become the Wilshire Grand Center. For the first time in several years the buzz and hum of diligent building activity was eerily silent. In fact, construction efforts were shut down for the day.
Sadly, less than 24 hours earlier a distraught electrician had taken a swan dive off the 53rd floor. The man’s death prompted an immediate work stoppage and evacuation of the (Read More....)
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