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Los Angeles
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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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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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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.
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Projects
In L.A., a Shopping Center Is Reborn as a Workplace
The May Company department store and Westside Pavilion have been transformed into the Westside’s newest workplace hub.
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Profiles
Bridging the Divide Between the Possible and the Impossible
Michael Maltzan and Deborah Weintraub, leaders of the effort to construct L.A.'s newly-opened Sixth Street Viaduct, talk about its lofty goals, significant challenges, and myriad lessons.
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Viewpoints
Los Angeles Architects and Leaders Take on Their City’s Homeless Crisis
Christopher Hawthorne, L.A.’s chief design officer, discusses how a culture of design innovation is helping tackle a growing calamity and provide dignity, shelter, and gracious interior spaces to thousands.
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Projects
A Printing Plant Is Reinvented as a Multipurpose Workplace
EYRC forges a mesmerizing, flexible creative office space from a former Los Angeles Times printing plant.
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Projects
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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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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Projects
Nike Opens a Machine for Branding in Los Angeles
LOHA's Nike Icon Studios unites every aspect of the brand's marketing machine—from photography to web design.
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Projects
Gehry Partner’s YOLA Center Brings Advanced Acoustics to a Former Bank
Located in a once-abandoned midcentury building, the repurposed rehearsal and performance center provides space for aspiring young musicians.
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Projects
A Transformation in Pacoima, Los Angeles, Reveals the Potential of the City’s Overlooked Alleys
Led by a group of local organizations and designers, the project replaces a previously hazardous alley with play areas, public art, and native plantings.
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Profiles
Beyond the Wheel: BZIPPY Challenges Conventions in Clay
Bari Ziperstein’s socially and historically informed practice helps explain the current renaissance of ceramic furniture in contemporary interiors.
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Viewpoints
Landscape Architecture Has a Labor Acknowledgement Problem
To better acknowledge, respect, and compensate laborers, landscape design firm Terremoto calls for a fundamental reimagining of how professional practice is structured.
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Viewpoints
Los Angeles’s Standard Plan Program for ADUs Takes Aim at the Housing Crisis
In response to the growing popularity of ADUs as a way to boost affordability, the city’s plan includes 20 pre-approved designs contributed by 14 firms.