French architect and 2008 Pritzker Laureate Jean Nouvel’s first projecton the West Coast will be “green” within and without. Located astrideCentury City, Calif., and Los Angeles will be his new building at10,000 Santa Monica Boulevard, dubbed the “green blade” for itshorizontal expanses of foliage that will escalate vertically on thefaçade. Designed for SunCal Companies, a residential communitydeveloper based primarily in California and the Southwest, 10,000 SantaMonica was designed to be a landmark building that highlights LosAngeles’s growing reputation as an international center of contemporaryart and architecture.
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