Don't be scared! Thankfully, this gold-foiled exoskeleton was never built in LA proposed for Donald Trump's new tower by the US architect Johnson Fain. But, this can be frightening symptoms of 'Trumpitecture' of that time we started to feel nowadays as well. 

Johnson Fain's Trump Tower is only part of a book released last year titled 'Never Built New York', written by Greg Goldin and Sam Lubell. The book addresses to New York's unbuilt, aborted and the most speculative projects from the last two centuries.

The Guardian shows us other speculative projects and images at the LA that never happened-and the list features Lloyd Wright's Los Angeles Civic Center in 1925, Pereira and Luckman's LA International Airport (LAX) in 1952, John Drescher and Moffat and Nichol's Santa Monica offshore freeway in 1965 alongside Johnson Fain's Trump Tower proposed for LA in 1989.

The Guardian notes that ''in LA, Trump bragged he was going to spend a billion dollars on what he claimed would become the world’s tallest building. His architect Bill Fain delivered a gilded 125-storey office tower etched in a diamond-patterned exoskeleton. It would have dwarfed everything in its shadow – looking over one of the city’s poorest immigrant communities.''

''David Martin also devised a skyscraper: ‘When I told Ivana [Trump] the basis of the idea was to put two diamonds together, she lit up,’ Martin said. ‘I think they were divorced a week later.''

Johnson Fain's mixed-use development sits on a 23-acre site in the Mid-Wilshire district of Los Angeles. The total project includes seven million square feet consisting of three million square feet of office space; 1.4 million square feet of hotel; 1.5 million square feet of residential; and 1.1 million square feet of retail space.

As related to 'Trumpitecture', Anycorp called for submissions for an upcoming issue of magazine-Log 39, which investigates new architectural era under the Presidency of Donald Trump. Log 39 will be released in late February 2017.

All images courtesy of Johnson Fain

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