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Winners of this year’s AIA Los Angeles Residential Architecture Awards have been announced in an expanded field that has nearly doubled in size since its inception six years ago. Those selected were chosen by an international jury of academics and architects from the US, the UK, and Italy... View full entry
Los Angeles has moved a step closer to implementing free public transport, with the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority approving a program that will give free bus and train travel to students and low-income users. The 23-month pilot program will begin in August 2021 for students, and for... View full entry
The Michael Maltzan Architecture-designed Sixth Street Viaduct is slowly taking shape in Los Angeles as new photos by LA Times photojournalist Allen J. Schaben show. The $588 million bridge project, the biggest in the city's history, emerged as the winning entry in the 2012 design competition for... View full entry
A proposal to build dozens of affordable apartments near Venice Beach has been approved, following a vote taken by the Los Angeles City Planning Commission. Image: Eric Owen Moss Architects After a long and contentious public hearing on May 27, the Commission voted to approve the construction of... View full entry
The Los Angeles Philharmonic and its Youth Orchestra Los Angeles recently tried out the nearly completed Judith and Thomas L. Beckmen YOLA Center. That is the dilapidated former bank building and Burger King in downtown Inglewood that architect Frank Gehry has transformed into a fabulous performance space and teaching facility for young musicians. — Los Angeles Times
Plans for a Gehry Partners-envisioned permanent home for the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Youth Orchestra first appeared on Archinect in 2017, followed by more concrete designs for the future Judith and Thomas L. Beckmen YOLA Center in LA's Inglewood neighborhood a year later. Previously on... View full entry
The company proposing to build a gondola from Union Station to Dodger Stadium announced Thursday that it has settled on a route that would take the aerial tramway generally above Alameda Street through Chinatown and include a station at the foot of Los Angeles State Historic Park. — Los Angeles Daily News
Three years after first appearing in the Archinect news, Los Angeles Aerial Rapid Transit has revealed a more detailed outline for its proposed gondola system that could shuttle thousands of baseball fans from Los Angeles Union Station to Dodger Stadium on game days. Image: Los Angeles Aerial... View full entry
To improve and explore housing solutions in the city of Los Angeles, Mayor Eric Garcetti and the Chief Design Officer for the City of Los Angeles, Christopher Hawthorne, organized the "Low-Rise: Housing Ideas for Los Angeles." While the design challenge is "not a competition" in the traditional... View full entry
Eli Broad, a businessman and philanthropist whose vast fortune, extensive art collection and zeal for civic improvement helped reshape the cultural landscape of Los Angeles, died on Friday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 87. [...]
Mr. Broad (pronounced “brode”) made billions in the home-building and insurance businesses and spent a significant part of his wealth trying to make Los Angeles one of the world’s pre-eminent cultural capitals.
— The New York Times
Broad is best known for his extensive philanthropic work focused on public education, scientific and medical research, and the visual and performing arts. He, along with his wife Edythe, has given more than $4 billion to support these efforts. Their work has placed them among the leading... View full entry
An Arts District cold-storage plant dating to the 1890s would be replaced with housing, offices, a hotel and shops in a proposal unveiled Thursday by Denver developers. With a price tag between $1.5 billion and $2 billion, the complex would rank among the largest L.A. commercial real estate developments in recent memory. — Los Angeles Times
Image: Studio One Eleven/Adjaye Associates According to the Los Angeles Times, the proposed Fourth & Central mixed-use mega-development in Downtown LA's rapidly transforming Arts District would consist of 10 buildings. While local firm Studio One Eleven is in charge of the master plan and building... View full entry
Today, the Los Angeles Public Library begins a phased reopening of its iconic Central Library in downtown Los Angeles, as well as 37 other branches. The library branches reopening today will offer limited in-person services including quick browsing, computer access, mobile printing orders, and checking out library materials. Virus protocols include limited building capacities up 75%, depending on the location. — LAist
The Los Angeles Public Library released a list of the location and hours of the sites reopening. Following a reservation, computers will be available at branches for an hour at a time. No reservation is required at the Central Library, but visitors will be limited to 30 minutes of use. The... View full entry
A vote taken last week by the Metro Board of Directors approved a nearly $900 million budget for the long-awaited rail link to LAX, setting the stage for work to begin for the new light rail station in coming months. The Airport Metro Connector, planned for a 9.5-acre site at the intersection of Aviation Boulevard and 96th Streets, will connect Metro's Crenshaw/LAX and Green (C) Lines with the airport's new automated people mover system. — Urbanize Los Angeles
Grimshaw Architects is in charge of the station's design. It will include: a 16-bay bus plaza with capacity for charging infrastructure, a multi-level active transportation and bike hub, a vehicle drop-off zone, a customer service center, public toilet facilities beyond the fare paid zone... View full entry
[...] the Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Commission signed off the initial phase of the long-proposed remodel of Pershing Square. [...]
The first phase of the project, as detailed in a presentation from Gruen Associates partner Debra Gerod, would focus on the Olive Street side of the park. The most visible of the proposed changes is the removal of the cafe building, creating space for a new landscaped plaza with outdoor seating.
— Urbanize Los Angeles
French landscape practice Agence Ter, working in collaboration with Los Angeles-based firms SALT Landscape Architects, Deborah Murphy Urban Design + Planning, Rachel Allen Architecture, among others, won the 2016 international design competition to redesign Pershing Square, the oldest public park... View full entry
Due to pandemic-related delays, the highly anticipated Lucas Museum will open its doors to the public in 2023. Construction began in March 2018, yet health and safety protocols relating to the Covid-19 pandemic have pushed back the Museum's opening. Renders of the $1-billion Museum and... View full entry
Los Angeles freeways are notorious soul-sucking pathways that most residents face daily. The infamous 405 freeway is considered one of the most "congested stretches of highway in the United States." However, as Forbes Staff writer Alan Ohnsman reports, there may be two solutions the city's... View full entry
The allure of ADU's has grown significantly. Yet, with new state laws initiated in places like California pre-fabricated options for backyard dwelling units are more accessible to those who want them. This past month, Los Angeles launched its new ADU Standard Plan Program to streamline the... View full entry
