For a decade, Los Angeles architects, designers, builders, and engineers have joined forces to create innovative structures meant for feeding, not housing. They will again design large-scale structures made entirely of canned foods for the 10th Annual CanstructionLA design/build competition to benefit the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank. CanstructionLA has donated more than 300,000 cans of food to help feed people since 2006.
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Backyard BI(h)OME / Kevin Daly Architects
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Architects: Kevin Daly Architects
Sunset Plaza Drive / GWdesign
Shulman Home and Studio / Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects
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Architects: Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects
- Area: 4000 ft²
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Professionals: A&C, Franceschi Engineering, Mia Lehrer + Associates, MNS Engineering
AD Classics: Pershing Square / Laurie Olin + LEGORRETA
The recently announced competition to redesign Pershing Square, Los Angeles’ oldest park, will be at least the sixth iteration of the space in the heart of the city’s rapidly changing downtown. Occupying a full city block, what is now Pershing Square (named for the World War I general) was part of the 1781 Spanish land grant to the City of Los Angeles, and was officially dedicated as a park, originally called La Plaza Abaja, in 1866.[1] The current iteration, designed by Mexican architect Ricardo Legorreta and landscape architect Laurie Olin, with art installations by Barbara McCarren, opened in 1994. Just over twenty years later, the brightly-colored, geometric stucco structures, and the hardscape-heavy layout have faced extensive criticism–one local website is fond of calling it the city’s “most hated park”–but Legorreta and Olin’s design makes a bold statement for urban public space in Los Angeles, unmatched by any other park in the city.
SL11024 / Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects
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Architects: Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects
- Area: 55000 ft²
- Year: 2015
UNStudio to Lecture at LACMA
In collaboration with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design, Caroline Bos, co-founder and Principal Urban Planner of UNStudio (www.unstudio.com), will speak about recent architectural, infrastructural and masterplan projects carried out by UNStudio. She will also introduce UNStudio’s Urban Unit and the approach to knowledge sharing recently adopted by the practice to enable the development, application and dissemination of practice related research.
"Shanshui City" Book Launch
Ma Yansong, Founder and Principle Partner of MAD Architects, will launch his most recent book Shanshui City on October 13th at The Architecture & Design Museum, Los Angeles. The free event will begin with a brief presentation on Shanshui City by Ma Yansong at 7:00 p.m. and will be followed by a conversation with Frances Anderton of KCRW’s DnA: Design and Architecture, and Dean Qingyun Ma from the USC School of Architecture.
Fenlon House / Martin Fenlon Architecture
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Architects: Martin Fenlon Architecture
- Area: 960 ft²
- Year: 2015
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Manufacturers: AXOR, C.R. Laurence, Hansgrohe, Owens Corning, Acuity Brands, +6
Bellino Residence / Mayes Office
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Architects: Mayes Office
- Year: 2015
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Manufacturers: VELUX Commercial
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Professionals: Seaboard Engineering Co., AG & B Construction, Bricy Company, Centergeo, Morpheus Design
Before and Further: DABSMYLA & Modernica
For their most ambitious exhibition to date – artist duo DABSMYLA presents Before and Further, a 4,000 square foot installation takeover of a stand-alone 1930 built Spanish Revival workplace building, located on the Modernica factory property. DABSMYLA have fully transformed its interior and exterior with their newest paintings, sculptures, installations and exclusive furnishings from limited-edition fiberglass shell chairs and hand painted ceramics to custom-built lighting installations, all designed and created exclusively for their collaboration with Modernica. The already rich history of this building and Modernica create a fitting compliment for DABSMYLA’s spectacular experience. This long awaited solo show will be
Yellow Fever / Fleetwood Fernandez
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Architects: Fleetwood Fernandez
- Area: 1400 m²
- Year: 2014
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Manufacturers: Tronk Design
Competition Launched to Revitalize LA’s Pershing Square
Pershing Square Renew, a public/private partnership formed by Los Angeles City Council member José Huizar, has launched an international design competition to re-imagine the five-acre urban park at the heart of downtown Los Angeles.
PAR Reinterprets Courtyard Housing with Los Angeles Skyscraper
Platform for Architecture + Research (PAR) has reinterpreted the idea of "courtyard housing" with a 930-foot-tall "stack of individual houses" envisioned for a site on Los Angeles' Wilshire Boulevard. Named "Wilshire Tower," the conceptual skyscraper is one of many radical proposals being unveiled at the A+D Museum's ongoing “Shelter: Rethinking How We Live in Los Angeles” exhibition that exploring new forms of housing for Los Angeles.
The Broad Museum / Diller Scofidio + Renfro
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Architects: Diller Scofidio + Renfro
- Area: 120000 ft²
- Year: 2015
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Professionals: Tillotson Design Associates, Arup, KPFF Consulting Engineers, La Crescenta, Calif., +3