After remaining on hold since 2005, the General Services Administration (GSA) has reinstated plans to construct a new U.S. Courthouse in downtown LA. The 3.7 acre dirt lot at 107 South Broadway, down the street from Morphosis’ Caltrans building, LA’s City Hall, and the Walt Disney Concert Hall, has remained dormant since 2007; shortly after the GSA abandoned Perkins + Will’s estimated $1.1 billion conceptual design due to rising costs. Now, plans for the courthouse have been scaled back and the GSA has just released the shortlisted teams competing of the project.

Shortlisted teams:

• Skidmore Owings & Merrill with Clark
• Yazdani Studio of Cannon Design, Gruen Associates and Rios Clementi Hale with Hensel Phelps
• Brooks + Scarpa and HMC Architects with McCarthy
• NBBJ Architects with Mortensen

Read the full article on ArchDaily, referenced from the Architect’s Newspaper.