World-famous as probably the world's first "five-over-one" or "one-plus-five" aptbldg, here is the 1996 architectural landmark Casa Heiwa in Little Tokyo in L.A.

Most of the five-over-ones that came after it lack the charm of this one.

 

Here, read about five-over-ones a/k/a one-plus-fives in Bloomberg Businessweek. The article talks about Casa Heiwa but does not bother to show you a picture of it!, so I flew to Los Angeles and took a picture.

 

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In Little Tokyo in downtown Los Angeles on April 23rd, 2019, Casa Heiwa (built 1996) on the north side of East 3rd Street, opposite Wall Street.

 

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:

• Downtown Los Angeles (7017736)

• Little Tokyo (7017734)

• Los Angeles (7023900)

• Los Angeles (county) (1002608)

 

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:

• apartment houses (300005707)

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• bicyclists (300258988)

• Columba livia (species) (300250087)

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• pigeons (general term) (300310557)

• traffic (300055250)

 

Wikidata items:

• 3rd Street (Q4636974)

• 23 April 2019 (Q57350059)

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• 1996 in architecture (Q2813264)

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• Southern California (Q844837)

 

Library of Congress Subject Headings:

• Apartment houses—California (sh2016001450)

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