The Ravenswood Apartments vs Dominguez–Wilshire Building

Comparing the The Ravenswood Apartments and the Dominguez–Wilshire Building is interesting because they both stand in Los Angeles, CA, and were completed in the same year, but they were designed by different architects.

This offers a unique glimpse at how rival designers approached projects in the same city during the same era.

Both the The Ravenswood Apartments and the Dominguez–Wilshire Building were designed in line with the aesthetic conventions of the Art Deco style.

At the time, this style was at the height of its popularity. So both Max Maltzman and Morgan, Walls & Clements followed what was in many ways expected of them, producing designs that fit comfortably within contemporary architectural norms, rather than breaking with convention.

The The Ravenswood Apartments is primarily residential, while the Dominguez–Wilshire Building is primarily commercial.

The The Ravenswood Apartments offers 96 residential units.

These two towers illustrate the many possible ways to combine structure and enclosure in skyscraper design.