Alexander Rotmensz

Seeking Truth and Beauty | Videos on Urbanism

[Tall Roman Statue @TallRomanStatue]

Fixed that design for you!

[Alexander Rotmensz @AlexRotmensz]

This is infinitely better than winning the skyscraper war

[Tall Roman Statue @TallRomanStatue]

The statue of Athena in Downtown Los Angeles was funded by an private anonymous donor during Mayor Pratt's third term.

After the city's liberation in the mid 2020s, it was promptly renovated in the style later called "MAGA Art Deco". Besides the Athena statue, Pratt square hosts live theater, jazz, and a host of speciality shops and restaurants from local entrepreneurs.

[Alexander Rotmensz @AlexRotmensz]

@UrbanCourtyard The 75% SFH number is kinda misleading. The vast majority of that are the Santa Monica Mountains and the San Fernando Valley. The actual city part of LA has very little SFH

[Erik Bootsma🌸🇳🇱 @ErikBootsma]

@ianreilly_arch The skyscraper bros are cargo cultists. Skyscrapers are the sign of wretched excess, so they think building more of them are how wealth and a city is created, not how life is sucked out of a place.

Manhattan is most vibrant, & alive where it's only 4-6 floors.

[Alexander Rotmensz @AlexRotmensz]

The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. What else?

[Dom Andrzejczuk @QuantumDom]

Name this hypothetical country.

[Alexander Rotmensz @AlexRotmensz]

Lack of human scale and classical proportions. Division creates the illusion of space.

If you’ve ever been in a room split in half by a divider, when that divider is removed, the room never feels twice as big. It always feels weirdly smaller than you would think.

[ThinkingWest @thinkingwest]

There's a certain grand aesthetic that was present in pre-20th century buildings that we seem to have lost.

We have bigger buildings now, but they don't induce the same awe.

[Alexander Rotmensz @AlexRotmensz]

On one hand, yes. On the other, it could’ve still happened. It was still a choice.

[Blanc @LotusFlameSword]

A Europe without world wars

[Alexander Rotmensz @AlexRotmensz]

I highly recommend for anyone interested in spending a summer in Budapest!

[Nir Buras @Nir_Buras]

Applications are open for the Budapest Summer Residency!
https://t.co/rg6kpEgbq8

[Alexander Rotmensz @AlexRotmensz]

Pointing out this travesty is somehow my most disliked video lol

[Joshua Junker @JoshJunker2]

Cincinnati cutting up its dense basin and easy access to the riverfront is pretty remarkable in comparison form.

[Alexander Rotmensz @AlexRotmensz]

@_lej44 Gotcha. Thank you. So you don’t think that adding enough housing for 400,000 people, in just the urban core of LA, would be enough to fulfill housing demand over the next few decades?

[Alexander Rotmensz @AlexRotmensz]

🚨 NEW VIDEO 🚨: LA Doesn't Need Zoning Reform

...okay, maybe a bit of an exaggeration, but we certainly don't need to upzone any SFH neighborhoods. Here's why:
https://t.co/y9R6WR8WaD

[Alexander Rotmensz @AlexRotmensz]

@_lej44 Did you watch the video?

[Architecture & Tradition @archi_tradition]

Architecture used to tell you where you were

[Alexander Rotmensz @AlexRotmensz]

Imagine if we built this instead of skyscrapers

[はさまるスタジオ @hasamaru_studio]

城の迫力に圧倒されて、思わず見入ってしまった

[lusso @luusssso]

When it came to architecture, the United States was once a nation full dreamers

Never forget what is possible

[Alexander Rotmensz @AlexRotmensz]

Just about finished editing my next video. Excited for you all to see it. Getting into some discussion about zoning and SB79.

[createstreets @createstreets]

This is the way.... Gentle Density. Many doors. Narrow Fronts. Variety in a Pattern. Buildings that are in communion with the past, the present and the future.

[Alexander Rotmensz @AlexRotmensz]

Park La Brea sucks. It’s less dense than a street of duplexes and quadriplexes. It should be like this:

[Becky Hartung @beckyhartung]

Park La Brea I was unaware of your game. Why aren’t we building all our neighborhoods across LA like this?

[Alexander Rotmensz @AlexRotmensz]

Photo still is from an elevated vantage point…

[Oscar Sims @oscarcsims]

because it looks cool?

[Alexander Rotmensz @AlexRotmensz]

I'm having too much fun

[Alexander Rotmensz @AlexRotmensz]

Tell me why Park La Brea shouldn't look like this