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Jessica Ritz
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Viewpoints
Detroit Month of Design: A City’s Work in Progress
Now in its 16th year, the celebration offers insights into the Motor City’s ongoing accomplishments without glossing over its hurdles.
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Inside MAD’s Lucas Museum of Narrative Art
The long-awaited project highlights uncomfortable truths about Los Angeles’s cultural sector and civic health.
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Profiles
For Lovers Unite, Architecture is About Lived Experience
The firm is known in Los Angeles for its creative restaurant designs and home rebuilds after the city's 2025 fires.
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An Old Car Dealership is L.A.’s Newest Inclusive Community Theater
Designed by LOC Architects, Outside in Theatre is a non-profit multipurpose performance venue that provides “brave spaces for all.”
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Edith Heath’s Tiled Facade at the Norton Simon Museum Gets a Proper Restoration
In collaboration with Heath Ceramics, Architectural Resources Group helmed the project timed to the fiftieth anniversary of the Pasadena institution.
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Profiles
Inside Three SoCal Design Workshops Where Craft and Sustainability Meet
With a vertically integrated approach, RAD furniture, Cerno, and Emblem are making design more durable, adaptable, and resource conscious.
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Formation Association Creates a New Pedestrian Passageway in L.A.
Atwater Canyon is a multi-tenant retail and restaurant complex organized around a welcoming pathway that blends indoor and outdoor spaces in L.A.'s Atwater Village.
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L’Oréal’s West Coast Headquarters Puts Sustainability Front and Center
Architecture firm Blitz employs a place- and nature-based design strategy for the cosmetics company's LEED- and WELL-certified workplace.
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In Hollywood, a New Home for a Legacy Nonprofit Organization
ODAA transformed an industrial shell into a multipurpose headquarters for the Assistance League of Los Angeles as the nonprofit organization enters its second century of community service.
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Profiles
Kellie Patry Takes a Considered Approach to Hospitality Design
Her designs for independent restaurants and coffee shops across Los Angeles feel both natural and expressive.
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Projects
A Los Angeles Firm Uses Modular Construction to Create Truly Affordable Housing
KTGY Architecture + Planning's innovative prefab construction technique is helping to add critical density in L.A.
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The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park Enlivens the San Diego Waterfront
Tucker Sadler Architects designed the permanent live performance venue for the San Diego Symphony in a newly enhanced downtown park to support all music genres and public engagement.
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Reviving a Southern California Legacy Girl Scouts Camp
With new A-frame cabins and a communal dining hall, Perkins&Will sets Camp Lakota on a course for the next generation of scouting.
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Stokes Architecture + Design Create a Pop Sensibility at Kpod Restaurant
K-pop references and an overall fun vibe set the scene for chef Peter Serpico's eclectic Korean-American menu in Philadelphia.
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Creating a New Template For the Vet Experience
Design, Bitches' clinics for growing veterinary chain Modern Animal benefit both humans and their four-legged creatures.
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A San Fernando Valley Housing Project Sets a New Standard
Los Angeles firm Brooks + Scarpa creates a “guardian of the block” on a corner lot in the San Fernando Valley.
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In San Francisco, the 5M Development Envisions Public and Private Space for the Future
Completed by SITELAB, KPF, and a host of other firms, 5M reveals a transformed, multi-use downtown site following a decade-long process.
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Brella Brings a Tech-Savvy Model to the Design of Childcare Centers
The company matches social-emotional experiences with design intention in three locations throughout Los Angeles.
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Arcsine Designs Brightmark Headquarters to Support its Green Mission
The Oakland-based architecture and interior design firm specified the materials from other innovative, sustainability-minded brands and manufacturers.
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Profiles
The Gamble House Looks to the Future of Historic House Museums
The historic home in Pasadena, California, aims to be more than an icon of the Arts and Crafts Style.