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Los Angeles
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Profiles
This Architecture Student Designs Through Productive Friction
METROPOLIS Future100 2026 honoree EmaLee Davidson embraces complexity as an active design force.
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Altadena’s Rebuild Begins with Listening
Led by SoCal NOMA, the Altadena Rebuild Coalition is guiding fire-impacted residents through recovery by prioritizing empathy, coordination, and community.
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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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How to Help the Communities Affected by the Los Angeles Wildfires
As the Los Angeles wildfires continue to impact lives, homes, and communities, here is how the L.A. design community is mobilizing, and how you can get involved.
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METROPOLIS Celebrates the Arch30 LA Cohort
They city’s most promising emerging architects, affiliated with influential firms, convened for METROPOLIS’s Arch30 event held in October.
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Projects
An Urban Island as Affordable Housing
LOHA Architects are expanding the definition for permanent supportive housing in Los Angeles
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Profiles
Breland–Harper Mines the Past to Design a Better Future
In less than a decade, Ireland-Harper, the Los Angeles–based studio has completed over 100 adaptive reuse projects.
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Profiles
At Chapman, Collette Creppell is Redefining the University Campus
Collette Crepell's leadership is shaping the growing academic institution's home into a vibrant urban experience powered by ambitious architecture.
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Viewpoints
Behind the Evolution of L.A.’s Mobility Landscape
Renewing the Dream: The Mobility Revolution and the Future of Los Angeles (Rizzoli Electa, 2023)
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Projects
How South L.A. Is Fighting Gentrification with Affordable Housing
As one of the city's poorest areas transforms into a hive of activity, the housing authority and private developers are redeveloping languishing housing with community support.
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Projects
Are Shipping Containers the Future of Affordable Housing?
At Watts Works in Los Angeles, Studio One Eleven has discovered the power of using shipping containers to build affordable housing.
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Projects
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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Viewpoints
Can the Tech Industry Learn to Be a Good Neighbor?
In Culver City, California, a tech boom has reshaped the urban fabric, and not everyone is happy about it.
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Projects
Eric Owen Moss Architects’ (W)rapper Building Rises in Los Angeles
The daringly experimental (W)rapper is Eric Owen Moss Architects’ latest building in the Hayden Tract, an architectural playground on the city's Westside.
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Viewpoints
Frances Anderton Tells the Story of the Los Angeles Apartment Building
In her new book, Common Ground: Multifamily Housing in Los Angeles, the architecture writer and broadcaster takes readers on a tour of the city's most exciting apartment buildings and complexes.
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Viewpoints
The Dark Side of Rick Caruso’s Fantasy Worlds
The developer, now a candidate for mayor of Los Angeles, has created beloved developments that often substitute for missing public spaces. But at heart they are anything but civic.
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Projects
The Broken Dreams of L.A.’s Grand Avenue
Frank Gehry’s decades-in-the-making tower complex in the center of Downtown Los Angeles fails to live up to its signature.
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Projects
A Generous Offer and a Thoughtful Design Yield a Beautiful Place for Healing and Nurturing
RIOS transforms a former convent into a new home for Harvest House, a group that offers lodging and services to pregnant unhoused women.
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Viewpoints
Memory on Every Corner: L.A.’s First Street Corridor
While Boulevards like Hollywood, Sunset, and Wilshire get more attention, Los Angeles' First Street contains an incredible—and dizzyingly complex—history.
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Projects
The L.A. River Gets A Geometric New Pedestrian Crossing
The Taylor Yard Bikeway/Pedestrian Bridge, designed by SPF:architects gives cyclists and walkers a new route between Elysian Valley and Cypress Park.