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La Brea Affordable Housing in West Hollywood is a contemporary take on art deco

March 26, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Providing homes for people with disabilities and formerly houseless LGBTQ+ youth, our next Social Housing Revival case study set out to prove that low-cost housing in the US can look as good as upscale apartments. Located in West Hollywood, the La Brea Affordable Housing complex, designed by architects Patrick Tighe and John Mutlow, is a

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Apparatus updates Los Angeles showroom to include a “modernist grotto”

March 25, 2024 Adrian Madlener 0

New York-based studio Apparatus has redesigned its Hollywood showroom with multiple material schemas and a range of its lighting and furniture products to evoke a feeling of “discovery” for visitors. The 5,000-square-foot (464 square metres) Hollywood showroom first opened in 2018 in a former warehouse. Apparatus redesigned the interiors – which previously consisted of bold

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Crosby Studios creates office-themed installation in LA for The Frankie Shop

March 23, 2024 Dan Howarth 0

New York-based Crosby Studios has piled office equipment around a long metallic table as part of a pop-up installation for fashion brand The Frankie Shop in Los Angeles. The month-long installation titled The Office was launched to coincide with LA Art Week and the Sag-Aftra film festival and marked the New York label The Frankie

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Albert Frey’s all-metal 1930s Aluminaire House reassembled in Palm Springs

March 22, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

The Palm Springs Art Museum has unveiled the reconstructed Aluminaire House in California, a modernist house originally designed in the 1930s by architect Albert Frey and editor A Lawrence Kocher. After “languishing for decades” in upstate New York, the house has been relocated to Palm Springs, California, where the museum plans to showcase and preserve

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Social housing is America’s “missing tool” to solve housing crisis says Alex Lee

March 20, 2024 Nat Barker 0

Public housing is an essential part of the solution to the housing crisis in the US, California politician Alex Lee tells Dezeen in this interview conducted as part of our Social Housing Revival series. California State Assembly member Lee is one of a small number of voices leading calls for a new social-housing programme to

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“Skyscrapers are irrelevant to architecture” says commenter

March 20, 2024 Rheanna Hopkins 0

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing a black-clad, “modernist” skyscraper completed in downtown Los Angeles by architecture studio Marmol Radziner. The Beaudry is 695-foot-tall (212 metres) and is now the tallest residential structure in California, according to the studio. Readers were split in their reactions. “Skyscrapers are irrelevant to architecture” Commenter Sanda Weisz

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Studio VARA designs Sonoma County house to stand up to wildfires

March 18, 2024 Jenna McKnight 0

Local firm Studio VARA has completed Fire Country Lookout, a rural retreat in northern California that is wrapped in a protective shell made of standing-seam metal and is equipped to operate off the grid. Located near the town of Healdsburg in Sonoma County, the house sits on a hilltop dotted with oak trees. A long,

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Studio VARA designs Sonoma County house to stand up to wildfires

March 18, 2024 Jenna McKnight 0

Local firm Studio VARA has completed Fire Country Lookout, a rural retreat in northern California that is wrapped in a protective shell made of standing-seam metal and is equipped to operate off the grid. Located near the town of Healdsburg in Sonoma County, the house sits on a hilltop dotted with oak trees. A long,

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LA chicken restaurant by Preen Inc “glows from within”

March 17, 2024 Dan Howarth 0

American studio Preen Inc has updated a fast-food restaurant in Los Angeles to harken back to Southern California’s roadside diners of the 1960s, when the establishment was originally founded. Dino’s Famous Chicken is run by four sisters who from LA who wanted to pay homage to the city and their Greek family heritage as part

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Marmol Radziner completes California’s tallest residential skyscraper

March 14, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

California architecture studio Marmol Radziner has completed a black-clad, “modernist” skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles, which is now the tallest residential structure in the state of California, according to the studio. The Beaudry is a 695-foot-tall (212 metres) luxury residential skyscraper with 64 storeys. It contains 785 residential units, a large outdoor third-floor terrace and

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