We’ve learned from Curbed LA that Frank Gehry is designing a large mixed-use development on LA’s Sunset Strip called 8150 Sunset. Located on Sunset and Crescent Heights Boulevards, the project will be located on the site of an old estate nicknamed the “Garden of Allah.” (The lot now contains a strip mall.)

According to its Draft Environmental Impact Report (PDF), the new complex, consisting of two buildings sitting on a raised podium, will include 249 apartments, about 100,000 square feet of restaurant and retail space, and a large central plaza. Updated plans and renderings are set to be released this spring, according to developer Townscape Partners.

A group called Save Sunset Boulevard is fighting to block the project, calling it a “hideous monstrosity,” and attacking its EIR. Among other things the association, which is represented by anti-development lawyer Robert Silverstein, called out the project’s potential to add to congestion, dwarf local historic buildings, block views, and waste water and other resources.

The glitzy Sunset Strip has become an architect magnet, drawing Lorcan O’Herlihy and SOM (Sunset La Cienega), Ian Schrager, CIM, and several more. It’s also been a graveyard of sorts, felling projects by Eric Owen Moss, Hodgetts + Fung, Kanner Architects, and others in recent years.