Oceanwide Plaza II, Unfinished skyscraper in South Park, Los Angeles, United States
Oceanwide Plaza II is a 162-meter tall structure in South Park with 40 floors designed to contain residences, retail spaces, and hotel accommodations. The modern design sits near Crypto.com Arena and forms part of downtown Los Angeles' evolving skyline.
The project began in 2015 under Oceanwide Holdings, a Beijing-based developer, but halted in 2019 when the company faced financial troubles. Work has not resumed since that interruption.
The three-tower Oceanwide Plaza complex was designed by CallisonRTKL with a curved glass facade facing Crypto.com Arena. Its lower levels were planned around a public plaza and retail podium meant to connect the towers to the surrounding South Park blocks. The unfinished shell now stands as a marker of the 2010s downtown building boom.
The tower occupies the block bounded by West 11th Street, South Figueroa Street and West 12th Street, directly north of Crypto.com Arena and across from the Los Angeles Convention Center. It is fenced off and closed to the public, so it can only be viewed from the surrounding sidewalks and from the arena plaza. The Pico and 7th Street/Metro Center stations are the nearest rail stops.
The graffiti that covered roughly 27 floors in early 2024 was organized by the art collective Indecline, which filmed the painters scaling the unfinished tower. The stunt drew crowds and news crews to South Park and pushed the city to fence off the site.
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