“The Smiths aren’t finished by a long shot. “We will not stop expanding unless we have some cataclysm,” Laurie says. Their biggest project to date–a pair of 230-foot-tall high-rise towers that will house only twelve stories, each with 25-foot ceilings–was recently approved by the Los Angeles city council. “We don’t just have one building we’re working on with this architect–we have a whole neighborhood,” Laurie says. “Architects love to talk about all the great designs they did that will end up on a library shelf because nobody had the guts to build them. We’re defying that. We’re giving this particular architect the chance to build his wildest dreams.”
You can visit too. I think it’s off National Blvd? I’ll have to ask Brigitte. I didn’t drive. I didn’t pay attention!