L.A. Skyscrapers Graffiti

Located in downtown Los Angeles, the L.A. Skyscrapers were designed by CallisonRKTL and developed by the international developer Oceanwide Holdings Company. The Beijing-based developer, Oceanwide Holdings, started to build a massive tower plaza in Los Angeles but ran out of funds in 2019. The building was left unfinished and unattended for nearly five years. In December of 2023, three taggers, Akua, Sour, and Castle, broke into the tallest building of Oceanside’s three towers and spray painted their names across its floor to ceiling windows. This action acted as a green light for more members of L.A.’s graffiti community to participate in tagging the skyscraper.

A lot of the graffiti artists share the same belief in relation to their graffiti on the skyscrapers. The building was tagged by graffiti artists who shared the belief that since the owners of the plaza were not doing anything with the building, the graffiti artists designs were a way of giving love to a building that needed it.