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Here's a heads-up for L.A.-based fans of Rudolph Schindler. Do not miss tonight’s premiere screening of Valentina Ganeva’s new documentary Schindler Space Architect at 7:30 p.m. in Beverly Hills. Ganeva recently spoke to KCRW about some of its insights, including the overlooked feminist... View full entry
Under state laws designed to remedy a housing shortage, the city has to set aside land for the construction of 250,000 more homes than allowed through existing zoning rules. Measures under consideration by a City Council committee are likely to satisfy the state requirements, the UCLA analysis found. But when analyzing the likelihood of what developers would actually build, researchers found the number of new homes would be far lower. — LA Times
The L.A. City Council is expected to vote later this afternoon to approve the rezoning measure. The report's co-author Shane Phillips of the UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies says the city would be better served if its generous slate of incentives was expanded to cover the... View full entry
The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHM) has opened its $75 million NHM Commons expansion to the public. Designed by Frederick Fisher and Partners, with landscape architecture by Studio-MLA and exhibition spaces by Studio Joseph, the NHM Commons comprises approximately 75,000 square... View full entry
Following our previous visit to AUX Architecture, we are keeping our Meet Your Next Employer series in Los Angeles this week to explore the work of RIOS. Founded in 1985, the firm employs approximately 280 team members across the United States, the United Kingdom, and Asia... View full entry
Caltech’s new Resnick Sustainability Center (RSC) has opened after the completion of an 80,000-square-foot design produced by the LA-based Yazdani Studio of CannonDesign. The project, which had been marketed as an interdisciplinary and cohesive "makerspace" for Caltech scientists and... View full entry
A new report from Hilgard Analytics and Zenith Economics has the numbers behind the turndown complicating LA’s multi-pronged housing crunch. According to the available Los Angeles City Council data, the number of new permits this year has fallen 30.7% on pace toward a new five-year low. ... View full entry
Following our previous visit to OFFICEUNTITLED (OU), we are keeping our Meet Your Next Employer series in Los Angeles this week to explore the work of AUX Architecture. Founded in 2008 and led by Brian Wickersham, the 40-person studio has amassed a portfolio along an ethos that... View full entry
Following our previous visit to Michael K. Chen Architecture, we are moving our Meet Your Next Employer series to Los Angeles this week to explore the work of OFFICEUNTITLED (OU). A practice of architects, designers, and strategists working across Los Angeles and New York, the... View full entry
The LA Times is reporting that the new David Geffen Galleries at LACMA will finally open to the public in April of 2026. This ends speculations as to when exactly the 110,000-square-foot Peter Zumthor design would debut after multiple delays to the orginally $750 million project. Spaces inside the... View full entry
Woods Bagot has shared a video from the recent overnight installation of its Midfield Satellite Concourse South (or MSC South) project at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). The project adds around 146,000 square feet of space and eight gates designed to hold narrowbody aircraft. Video... View full entry
The design details for RIOS, Kerry Hill Architects, and Foster + Partners’ upcoming One Beverly Hills development have been updated in Los Angeles What are going to be the two tallest structures in the neighborhood (at 32 and 26 stories apiece) will be joined by a new two-story conference... View full entry
Following our previous look at an opening for a Capital Projects Manager at the DC Public Library, we are using this week’s edition of our Job Highlights series to explore an open role on Archinect Jobs for an Art Director at the University of Southern California. The role, based... View full entry
Construction has topped out on the ZGF Architects-led design for the new Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center at the California Science Center in Los Angeles’ Exposition Park. The 200,000-square-foot project expands the museum’s programmable exhibition space by 110,00 square feet and... View full entry
This must do something to the city—like the Pan Am Building in New York—but somehow today the courage is lost. It must mean something to the city that there is a shape that is hard to understand crossing the road. The owner’s representative in charge of our project recently said to me, “Peter, I’ve now started to understand what this building is doing on all sides.” — The Brooklyn Rail
LACMA recently pushed back the opening of Zumthor's David Geffen Galleries to 2026 as Christopher Knight quoted an unnamed museum source in the LA Times as saying the project's budget (which had been an initial hurdle to clear) is now in excess of $835 million. "In about a year, one end will... View full entry
Get Lectured continues with a look at what’s in store this semester at East Los Angeles College (ELAC) in Los Angeles. Guest speakers for the Fall academic term will include Jorge Gracia (October 23); Linda Taalman (November 6); Jimenez Lai (November 20). Each is free and open to the public... View full entry
