LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles has scrapped a 1950s rule requiring its skyscrapers to have flat roofs and helipads, giving architects a freer hand to shape the skyline of America's second-largest ...

Even the array of buildings in Dallas – Dallas?! – is more eye-catching than Los Angeles’ bland skyline that is mostly a bunch of tall rectangles with flat tops. But no more.

L.A. to allow spires on skyscrapers, easing 40-year-old flat-roof rule The downtown L.A. skyline as seen Monday from the rooftop helipad of the AT&T Tower building at Olive and 11th streets ...