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Architects: Diego Cano, Selgascano
- Area: 240 m²
- Year: 2023
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La Canaria House / Selgascano + Diego Cano
Social Housing in America: Architects Must Answer the Call
This article was originally published on Common Edge.
If you follow housing policy in America, you may have noticed a particular term cropping up a lot recently: social housing. Maybe you’ve read a longform academic article, live in a city that is codifying a social-housing policy like Seattle or Atlanta, or seen one of the recent mentions in The New York Times, highlighting U.S. and Viennese success stories. On the design front, Dezeen is running a social-housing revival series.
Discover the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures through the Lens of Paul Clemence
This Oscars Season, photographer Paul Clemence turned his lens to the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, the most famous institution dedicated to the art and science of movies. Designed and revitalized by Gensler and Renzo Piano Building Workshop, the building is located on the famed ‘Miracle Mile’ in Los Angeles, opening with expansive views towards Hollywood. This year, the museum opened its rooftop terrace for the Oscars Night at the Museum, a unique event to celebrate the 96th Oscars.
One Beverly Hills by Foster + Partners Breaks Ground
Foster + Partners has announced the start of construction on One Beverly Hills, revitalizing 17.5 acres of land in the city center. Proposing two residential buildings, a new hotel, a dining, and a retail pavilion, the development is expected to open in 2025. Designed in collaboration with design collective RIOS, who is leading the Landscape Architecture, the project features 10 acres of gardens and open space. The project’s masterplan, designed by Foster + Partners, also integrates existing landmarks like the Beverly Hilton and Waldorf Astoria Beverly Hills.
Awesome and Affordable: Making the Case for Great Housing
This article was originally published on Common Edge.
When Brenda Mendoza told an NPR reporter about her commute to work, she became the face of the housing crisis in Los Angeles today. Mendoza, a uniform attendant at a Marriott hotel, was living with her family in an apartment in Koreatown, where she had grown up, 10 minutes from her job. The landlord raised the rent, so she moved to a less costly place in Downey. When that rent also rose out of reach, she moved to Apple Valley, and now gets up at 3:30 a.m. to drive 100 miles to her job, dropping off her husband and son at their jobs on the way. She did not move to Apple Valley to invest in a house she could love. She simply found an equally unstable, but slightly more affordable, rental hours from her workplace.
Los Angeles Plans to Implement the Park Block Pilot, a Car-Free Grid Inspired by Barcelona's Superblock Model
Los Angeles officials have voted on a motion to implement the first Park Block, a pilot project that creates a car-free grid of city streets to open up public space for pedestrians and cyclists, as reported by NBC Los Angeles. The plan takes inspiration from Barcelona’s Superblock program, which creates groups of nine blocks in the district of Eixample and restricts the traffic to the outside streets, freeing up the rest of the streets for pedestrian and local transit only. Implemented in 2016, the plan has led to reduced levels of air pollution, urban noise, and traffic fatalities. A similar program is now planned for Los Angeles, United States.
Stradella Ridge House / SAOTA
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Architects: SAOTA
- Year: 2023
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Professionals: Dieter Vander Velpen Architects, JAL Construction Inc., CEG, Landscape by Diane, Moon Lighting
“Our Mission Is to Preserve and Explore the Neutra Legacy”: In Conversation with Raymond Neutra, the Youngest Son of Richard Neutra
It was, of course, Frank Lloyd Wright who set up the ground for modern architecture to happen in Los Angeles. Then came the Viennese, Rudolph Schindler in 1920 and Richard Neutra in 1925 at the invitation of Schindler. Both worked for Wright choosing to learn from him what they saw as essential—by focusing on spatial and formal clarity, transformability, restrained materiality, and the living environment to achieve a desirable quality of life within. Neutra and Schindler collaborated at first, and then each built a rich portfolio, mainly comprising houses and apartment blocks. Universal in principle, these abstract robust structures defined and led the development of a local building vernacular. These buildings, of which there are several hundred, are now strongly associated with the two architects’ adopted city.
Dimmick Drive Houses / FreelandBuck
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Architects: FreelandBuck
- Area: 4000 ft²
- Year: 2023
t House / ANX / Aaron Neubert Architects
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Architects: ANX / Aaron Neubert Architects
- Area: 3882 ft²
- Year: 2023
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Manufacturers: Eco Outdoor, Fleetwood , Nusku, Toto
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Professionals: Craig Phillips Engineering, Hariton Engineering, Peter Shirley Engineering
Aesop Palisades Village / Odami
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Architects: Odami
- Year: 2022
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Professionals: Precise Contractor Inc., Dayone Designs, RKM Consulting Engineers Inc.
“I Think of My Work as Imploding Rather than Exploding:” in Conversation with Michael Rotondi of Roto Architects
Michael Rotondi’s buildings—museums, civic centers, education facilities, monasteries, restaurants, and residences—evoke kinetic mechanisms that fold, hinge, twist, and split open. They express the architect’s feelings, thinking, and mood at the time they had been designed, and, on some occasions, during their assembly and construction. Rotondi was born in 1949 in Los Angeles.
He established his RoTo Architects, a research-based firm in his native city, in 1991 after co-heading Morphosis for 16 years with Thom Mayne. Parallel to his practicing career, the architect has been teaching and lecturing at SCI-Arc, Southern California Institute of Architecture, which he co-founded in 1972, led its graduate program from 1978-1987, and was the school’s second director for a decade from 1987 to 1997.
The Axolotl Housing / Yu2e
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Architects: Yu2e
- Area: 836 m²
- Year: 2023
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Professionals: Craig Phillips, Living Green Landscape Design, Gaspar Obando
WE3 at Water's Edge / SPF: architects
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Architects: Studio Pali Fekete architects
- Area: 407000 ft²
- Year: 2020
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Manufacturers: Morin Corp., Arcadia Custom, Morin | Kingspan
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Professionals: Bennitt Design Group, Buro Happold, Alvine Engineering, Simpson Gumpertz & Heger, Saiful Bouquet
Sycamore953 Office Building / Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects
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Architects: Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects
- Area: 240000 ft²