Unbuilt Los Angeles: the city that might have been – in pictures

Los Angeles Civic Center – 1925 – Lloyd Wright

Wright’s proposal, submitted to the Los Angeles Times in 1925, consisted of terraced walkways flanked by rows of Mayan Revival government buildings. City Hall would sit at the top of this
temple-like complex, while sunken roads, subterranean train tunnels, and
rooftop helipads would manage movement in and out of the city. Anaïs Nin,
who visited Wright’s studio in the late 1940s, wrote in her diary: ‘I
saw [his] plans for LA. It could have been the most beautiful city in
the world.’