Los Angeles High School for the Visual and Performing Arts in Los Angeles

• Construction start: 2006
• Construction finish: 2009
• Designed by: Coop Himmelb(l)au
• Cost: $232,000,000
• Type: Educational Facility
• Maximum Height: 140 feet / 43 meters

• Floor space: 230,000 square feet

• Architect: Wolf D. Prix
• Architecture firm: Coop Himmelb(l)au

• The room at the top of the tower was intended to be made available for event space, but the school district wouldn't pay to finish it, so it remains empty and unused.

• This project was originally supposed to cost $87 million. The final price tag was $232 million.

• "Prix's style is what you might call mesmerizingly inefficient. Like a baroque architect piling ornament into the upper reaches of a church interior, he tends to make his most highly wrought spaces inaccessible and essentially decorative -- in the soaring ceiling above the school's main public lobby on Grand Avenue, for example."

  -Christopher Hawthorne, Los Angeles Times, May 31, 2009.

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