A Highrise of Parks reclaims the abandoned towers of Oceanwide Plaza in Downtown Los Angeles, transforming them into a vertical public park. Instead of building across the city, the park stacks upward—an inversion of the traditional horizontal greenway. A new supporting core is inserted to house both essential back-of-house infrastructure and public programs that enrich the park experience. Each level becomes part of a distinct “world” , shaped by height, light, and view. Once envisioned as a privatized mixed-use complex, the site is reimagined as a civic offering—restoring green space to the public and reintegrating the towers into the fabric of the city.
A Highrise of Parks
