1601 Vine Street

1601 Vine St. is a proposed mixed-use high-rise in the Pennsylvanian city of Philadelphia. The building is adjacent to the Philadelphia Pennsylvania Temple, which was designed by Perkins+Will. This project will consist of one tower, as well as a Mormon meetinghouse next to the building, which will be clad in red brick.

Usage

The tower will be approximately 375 feet in height. The tower will contain roughly 260 apartments, as well as retail and townhouses around the base. The project will include a public garden space and improve traffic flow on Wood Street.

History

1601 Vine was originally to host a building unrelated to the temple complex, but that project was cancelled when funding could not be obtained.

In July 2014 the project was approved by the Civic Design Review. As of January of 2016, the building is under construction, with completion estimated to occur in 2017.

Criticism

Philadelphia Inquirer architecture critic Inga Saffron praised the development for its "urbanism" but condemned the mismatched styles of the temple, meetinghouse, and apartment tower.

Vine Street

Vine Street is a street in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California that runs north-south from Melrose Avenue up past Hollywood Boulevard. The intersection of Hollywood and Vine was once a symbol of Hollywood itself. The famed intersection fell into disrepair during the 1970s but has since begun gentrification and renewal with several high valued projects currently in progress. Three blocks of the Hollywood Walk of Fame lie along this street with names such as John Lennon, Johnny Carson, and Deborah Kerr. South of Melrose, Vine turns into Rossmore Avenue, a residential Hancock Park thoroughfare that ends at Wilshire Boulevard.

Buildings

The California Laundry was located on the street in 1920s. The Capitol Records Building, Capitol Tower, is located just north of the intersection of Hollywood & Vine.Miss Brewster's Millions (1926) starring Bebe Daniels, was shot on Vine Street at Franklin Avenue, near the site what is now the Capitol Records Building. The Hollywood/Vine Station for the Metro Red Line serves the intersection with the station entrance located at Hollywood Boulevard and Argyle Avenue, located one block east. Metro Local line 210 serves Vine Street.