You'd be forgiven for wanting to reach out the passenger window of your car and touch the Da Vinci, the newest downtown apartment complex from G.H. Palmer Associates. Built dead against the transition from the 110 to the 101 and opening early next year, it is massive in scale, with medieval brick buttresses surmounted by Italianate dingbats.

The Da Vinci is unlike any other developer's apartment building downtown, though it is nearly identical to the Orsini, a 2011 structure across the street, and for that matter, the Piero, the Visconti, and the Medici—all Palmer projects that dominate the one-and-a-half-mile stretch of the Harbor Freeway between 8th Street and Sunset.

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