Cities within the City
The three towers of The Hollywood
(1960), an unbuilt complex by Paul R
Williams, made a statement on that town’s
traditional grid and created a controlled
envelope within its once glamorous but
now ragged, decaying fabric. Diniz’s
prints, designed to sell apartment units
and rent retail spaces, carefully asso-
ciated its three towers with this lost
Hollywood glamour, showing how they
would landmark the city by day and
night, while its interior courts set up a
stylish separate city of outdoor mezza-
nines and sunken plazas to anchor the
futurist drama of a heliport, a 5,000 car
garage, and an air terminal, along with
hotel, theaters, restaurants, convention
hall and shopping center.
Above Carlos Diniz, The Hollywood,
Courtyard View, 1961. Paul R. Williams
and David Jacobson, architects.
Screenprint on paper.
Left Carlos Diniz, The Hollywood, View of
Towers from Sunset and Vine, 1961. Paul R.
Williams and David Jacobson, architects.
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Screenprint on paper.