The Graffiti High-Rise Towering Over Grammys Ceremony
Twenty-seven floors of unfinished L.A. luxury skyscraper tagged with graffiti. MARIO TAMA/GETTY IMAGES
Guests walking the red carpet at Sunday’s Grammy Awards ceremony at the Crypto.com Arena will have noticed the spectacular graffiti adorning an unfinished high-rise development looming large across the street.
At least 27 floors of the $1 billion Oceanwide Plaza three-tower development have been tagged after the LAPD revealed last Thursday that more than a dozen people broke into the site and rapidly painted walls, balconies and windows. Aerial footage of the buildings shows tags such as “set the pace,” “amen” and “dank.”
The 40-story towers, part of a development that was to include a hotel and luxury condos, have been left unfinished after the project stalled in 2019. The complex’s Chinese developer, Oceanwide Holdings, ran out of money, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times.