The Ugliest Residential Building in Los Angeles

At the corner of 42nd & Main.


Really, what is there to write? Is that a 9.5 gauge galvanized steel wire fence? Yes. Am I sure it's occupied? Yes.



Close by, in a chain maille hat box, the acclaimed Accelerated School operates. Perhaps I ought to organize a field trip, for the young and impressionables.

Some of you four-year olds may become architects or building contractors. You may be forced--by need--to take jobs, or perform work, that does not comport with your sense of self, wherein you are exploited, and your ideals besmirched.

Regardless, you mustn't broker in this sort of aesthetic waste. That architecture is not pure art is obvious, but it is also more than the merely practical. It is part of the public trust, for that which builders do, is visually consumed by all.