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5 Universe Within: Digital Lives in the Global Highrise (2015).

4 A Short History of the Highrise (2013).The total budget for Highrise was CAD$2.8 million. In addition to awards won by individual webdocs in the series, the Highrise project received the Canadian Urban Institute's 2013 Global City and Innovation Urban Leadership Award. In June 2015, Universe Within: Digital Lives in the Global Highrise was launched as the final installment of Highrise. Until mid-2015, Cizek collaborated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's OpenDocLab unit on developments for the Highrise project as part of MIT's Visiting Artists Program. In March 2013, the NFB and The New York Times announced a partnership entitled A Short History of the Highrise, which resulted in four short documentaries about life in highrise buildings, utilizing images from the newspaper's photo archives for the first three films, and user-submitted images for the final film. The project, which began in 2009, includes five web documentaries- The Thousandth Tower, Out My Window, One Millionth Tower, A Short History of the Highrise and Universe Within: Digital Lives in the Global Highrise-as well as more than 20 derivative projects such as public art exhibits and live performances. OC portfolio with 1.Highrise is a multi-year, multimedia documentary project about life in residential highrises, directed by Katerina Cizek and produced by Gerry Flahive for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).“Park block” model would close some LA streets to traffic August 11, 2022.Mark Burnett, Roma Downey seek to sell Malibu home August 11, 2022.New towers drawn up by Bjarke Ingels Group and Herzog & de Meuron are in the works nearby, and Onni Group is planning a 36-story high-rise just south of 7th Street. Ron Zeff’s CP Employers agreed to pay a $1.2 million fine to avoid prosecution in connection with the City Hall corruption case, admitting no wrongdoing in the settlement.ĬP Employers’ pioneering high-rise in the Arts District has been followed by others. Huizar doesn’t dispute he accepted payments from developers, but claims they were legal, First Amendment-protected contributions and honest favors.Īs the details of the federal charges became public, some of Huizar’s then-colleagues on the City Council announced their intent to claw back approvals for projects with links to the bribery scandal, Urbanize reported.Īn ordinance which would permit the City Council to revoke building permits and entitlements obtained through fraud was drafted in August 2020 and referred to the Council’s Planning Committee.

In return, Huizar allegedly pushed to reduce the amount of affordable housing required for the Arts District tower, saving the developer $14 million. Federal prosecutors say the developer also paid for opposition research on Huizar’s former aides who had filed sexual harrassment complaints against the councilman.

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Huizar, who is now awaiting trial in federal court, is alleged to have accepted political contributions from Carmel Partners for his wife’s short-lived City Council run during the approval process for 520 Mateo.

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Works Progress Architecture, based in Portland, and Chicago-based Solomon Cordwell Buenz, drew up plans for the glass-and-steel building, which would include rooftop and podium amenity decks, plus a new pedestrian paseo on a former rail spur between Mateo and Santa Fe Avenue.Įxcavation and shoring work for the mixed-use development began in early 2020, but halted during the pandemic and reports of the project’s connections to a pay-to-play corruption scandal at City Hall centered on ex-Councilmember Jose Huizar. If completed, the 390-foot tall building would be the tallest building in the Arts District. San Francisco-based CP Employers – formerly known as Carmel Partners – has resumed site preparation at 520 Mateo Street for a 35-story building to contain 475 apartments, 105,000 square feet of office space, 20,000 square feet of shops and restaurants, and space for 650 cars, Urbanize Los Angeles reported. Carmel Partners CEO Ron Zeff and Jose Huizar with Renderings of the 520 Mateo Street project (Carmel Partners, NACTO, Works Progress Architecture)Ĭonstruction has resumed on the first high-rise building in the Arts District of Downtown Los Angeles, a project that stalled after its developer was linked to a City Hall corruption scandal.

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