Graffiti artists broke into downtown Los Angeles Oceanwide Plaza skyscraper development earlier this month and tagged over 27 floors with bright, bold letters. The work was a collaboration between local artists, who spray painted the complex over the course of three days with words like “Dank” and “Amen.” While the Oceanwide Plaza was meant to be a $1 billion real estate project in downtown L.A., its been empty since 2019. According to the Los Angeles Times Summer Lin and Robert Gauthier, the plan was to build three neighboring towers that would serve as luxury condominiums and apartments alongside hotel and retail space. However, construction stopped when the Beijing-based developer backing the project ran out of funds.

Graffiti artists broke into downtown Los Angeles Oceanwide Plaza skyscraper development earlier this month and tagged over 27 floors with bright, bold letters. The work was a collaboration between local artists, who spray painted the complex over the course of three days with words like “Dank” and “Amen.” While the Oceanwide Plaza was meant to be a $1 billion real estate project in downtown L.A., its been empty since 2019. According to the Los Angeles Times Summer Lin and Robert Gauthier, the plan was to build three neighboring towers that would serve as luxury condominiums and apartments alongside hotel and retail space. However, construction stopped when the Beijing-based developer backing the project ran out of funds.