If you recently read that the City’s tallest apartment building could come to 6th and Colorado, you may be left wondering how the facts of that story measure up. Measurement should be objective: arguments over the length of an hour, the outside temperature, or the distance to walk somewhere can be resolved with objective, scientific measurement. There are two major systems of measurement (Imperial and Metric), but each represents an objective measurement.
According to the Santa Monica Daily Press, “The proposed 100 Wilshire project is 21 stories and while that structure itself is less than 250 ft, if you include its aerials and antennas, it comes in at 266 ft total height.”
Many sources online cite the Daniel, Mann, Johnson, and Mendenhall-designed building that opened in 1971 as 300 feet or 91.44 meters:
- Wikimedia Commons
- SkySkaper Page – which has several diagrams of 10+ story buildings in Santa Monica
- LA Almanac
- Santa Monica Lookout
The only source that lists the building as 266 feet seems to be a graphic the Santa Monica Daily Press published in December 2023. According to the American Psychological Association, misinformation is false or inaccurate information—getting the facts wrong. Disinformation is false information which is deliberately intended to mislead—intentionally misstating the facts.
I’ll let the reader decide whether the Daily Press is engaged in misinformation or disinformation.
