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Los Angeles
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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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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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Projects
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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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.
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Projects
Only Way Is Up Transforms a 1920s Los Angeles Loft
Amanda Gunawan and Joel Wong of Only Way Is Up developed their contracting skills and launched a design-build arm of their firm along the way.
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Projects
Gigi’s Brings Intimacy and Comfort to Post-COVID Dining
The Los Angeles restaurant designed by Andrew Cosbie creates a convivial atmosphere with the help of local muralist Andie Dinkin.
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Viewpoints
A New Series of Talks is Shedding Light on the Impact of Architect Paul R. Williams
A new series of talks is underscoring the importance of work by Hollywood's first black starchitect.