Metropolis: Selling the downtown high-rise dream

Is high-rise living the future of housing in downtown LA? DnA visits the Gensler-designed Metropolis tower complex to learn how the architects turned a freeway-adjacent site into sky-high luxury condos, and how its Chinese developer Greenland and Beverly Hills realtor The Agency are selling the new “downtown dream” to prospective buyers.

Feature Image: The view from a two-story, three-bedroom penthouse condo on the top floor of Metropolis’ Tower I in downtown LA. Photo by Avishay Artsy.