{"id":248171,"date":"2010-01-29T16:46:29","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T21:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a82c4f87970b"},"modified":"2010-01-29T16:46:29","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T21:46:29","slug":"will-new-w-hotel-bring-more-bling-to-hollywood-or-just-make-traffic-worse-share-your-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/248171","title":{"rendered":"Will new W hotel bring more bling to Hollywood or just make traffic worse? Share your view"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The new W Hotel on Hollywood near Vine is about to open. It’s being billed as a centerpiece of Hollywood’s continued revitalization.
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<\/br>Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne expressed mixed feelings:<\/a> "The rather ungainly result, set to open officially this morning, is not
\nwhat you’d call an elegant addition to the rapidly expanding Hollywood
\nskyline. And yet few recent projects have had more to say about the
\nstate of contemporary urbanism in Southern California than this one. It
\nsymbolizes almost perfectly a city \"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a7ff41ff970b-pi\"<\/img><\/a><\/span>that is groping toward a denser,
\nmore vertical and more public future while still reluctant to abandon
\nits love affair with the car and the glossier, more exclusive corners
\nof celebrity culture."
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<\/br>What do you think? Is the W complex a jewel for Hollywood or yet another unfortunately, dense development? Will it worsen traffic — or drive more people to mass transit?
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<\/br>Share your views below.
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<\/br>Photos credit: Robert Gauthier \/ Los Angeles Times. Check out the Times photo gallery from the W here.<\/a><\/em>
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