Downtown Los Angeles' skyline is poised to change dramatically in the next few years with the addition of ... newer towers obscure much of the 1979 skyline from the vantage point of City Hall.

While the auto made it easy for Los Angeles to sprawl, earthquake fears made it difficult for the city to grow vertically. Until 1959, a local ordinance limited buildings to a height of 150 feet ...

For 40 years the building reigned as the city’s tallest, its white, obelisk-capped tower commanding the Los Angeles skyline.

Both images of Los Angeles were taken from Mount Wilson. The first by Ferdinand Ellermann in 1908, one hour exposure. The second one, by Gerhard Eisenbeis with 4 seconds exposure on 100 ASA film.

Los Angeles has one of the more boring metropolitan skylines thanks to a 1958 rule requiring skyscrapers that are flat on top (just like the 90s haircut). Los Angeles' Skyline Could Get Less ...

After five years of construction, the Wilshire Grand Center is now the tallest building in Los Angeles and the tallest building west of the Mississippi River. At 1,100 feet, the new structure ...

One of the most epic musical experiences is coming back to Los Angeles this fall. La La Land in Concert returns to the Los ...

Los Angeles’s palm trees are dying of fungus and under the threat of invasive insects. The city won’t replace the palms that die, altering their prominence in the city and likely their use as ...

The city of Los Angeles is now taking matters into its own hands to clean up the now-famous "graffiti towers" in downtown. "It looks pretty much abandoned and pretty much like garbage," said ...

In a city given over to the automobile, billboards have been a fixture here for decades. Some have even become Los Angeles icons: think of the giant Angelyne ad or the Marlboro Man on the Sunset Strip ...