The piece of land between Hill Street and Broadway…has been among the most conspicuous…vacant mega-blocks since a state office building there was demolished in 2007.
Now that the building is finally complete…the delay is somewhat easier to overlook. The $350-million, 633,000-square-foot courthouse, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, is an unusually polished work of civic architecture — especially by the standards of Los Angeles, where well-wrought public buildings have been comparatively rare in recent decades. Ten stories high, with broad shoulders and careful posture, it takes the form of a cube sheathed in walls of glass.
Source: Los Angeles Times