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Friendly Fire

It’s time for designers to embrace fire as the ecological and cultural force that it is.

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Services For All

Frederick Fisher & Partners’s addition to Santa Monica City Hall touts its net-zero bona fides

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Plenty of Room at the Inn

California Governor Gavin Newsom pledges $200 million for hotel-to-housing conversion program

illustration of a bridge crossing a port area with a mountain in the background, the new West Seattle Bridge
Don’t Knock On Wood

B+H Architects wants to replace the shuttered West Seattle Bridge with a sleek mass timber and steel span

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Hey, Big Spenders ...

Neutra’s iconic Kaufmann House in Palm Springs hits the market for $25 million

Interior rendering of the new Portland International Airport
PDX Gets More PDX-y

Get an early glimpse of the new timber-topped main terminal at Portland International Airport

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Reimagining the Ranch

The Los Angeles Design Group completes artistic live–work compound in Highland Park

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The Frame Game

JAPAN HOUSE Los Angeles will virtually reopen with a window-centric new show

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Alphabet City

Google shares vision for sprawling, sustainable “Downtown West” in San Jose

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Freshening Up A DTLA Icon

Union Bank Plaza, a modernist Downtown L.A. landmark, undergoes $20 million renovation

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A Matter of Truss

LMN Architects completes a connectivity-boosting bridge in Everett, Washington

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Jammin Glulam

SOM blends mass timber and High Modernism with the pagoda-like Billie Jean King Library

A middle-aged caucasian woman, Mia Lehrer
A Champion of Urban Ecology

Mia Lehrer tapped for L.A. Department of Water and Power Board of Commissioners

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Pier Review

Heatherwick Studio reveals details of The Cove proposal for Piers 30–32 in San Francisco

An encampment of people experiencing homelessness, under blue tarps
The Best Kind of Medicine

Study finds permanent supportive housing could help end chronic homelessness

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In Brief

Katerra and Michael Green Architecture complete the Catalyst Building in Spokane, Washington

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A Proper Campus

wHY-helmed expansion of David Kordansky Gallery opens in Los Angeles

rendering of a contemporary museum building
The Shape of Table

Updated LACMA plans and renderings reveal the shape of the museum’s galleries for the first time

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