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Downtown Los AngelesLatest Stories

urban plaza in downtown los angeles, night
Freshening Up A DTLA Icon

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

Building corner on busy street intersection, designed by Koichi Takata Architects
A Tree Grows in Los Angeles

Koichi Takada Architects reveals tree-like skyscraper for Downtown Los Angeles

Tall white towers next to older building, the new Alvidrez
Tall Timber in Tinseltown

Michael Maltzan Architecture designs affordable mass timber housing tower for Skid Row

A stretch of Broadway Street with multiple signs and people walking on the sidewalk
BRINGING BACK WALKING

Downtown Los Angeles’s Broadway Street may soon go car-free

Rendering of the new Pershing Square, with tree-lined walkways
Patience for a Park

Pershing Square redevelopment will begin by end of year, now that funds are secured

Rendering of new LACMA campus in LA..
Mo' Money, Mo' Problems

LACMA receives $50 million gift towards controversial campus rebuild

Rendering of a storefront in downtown Los Angeles
Brothers to Brothers

Downtown L.A.’s Barker Brothers building to be restored to former glory

Interior view of gallery space with translucent sculpture in center
ADA Defiant

Built to Scale highlights exclusionary principles in the built environment

Photo of Frank Gehry's twisting concert hall in Los Angeles
Plastic Surgery

Los Angeles roads may soon be paved with recycled plastic

People ascending a staircase in the Arup office
On the Arup

Arup’s new Downtown Los Angeles office is more than an expansion

Photo of a rooftop cabana at Soho House
Industry City

Los Angeles’s newest Soho House will soon open in a warehouse

Rendering of the new tower at 5th and Hill, a glassy cantilevering box
East Coast Transplant

Gravity-defying 5th and Hill tower with cantilevering pools approved for construction

Rendering of office down in L.A., which would replace the demolished Parker Center
Paving on Parker

Morphosis, Renzo Piano, SOM among shortlisted for civic office tower in L.A.

TALK: MADWORKSHOP on Design With Purpose

INSTALLATION: MADWORKSHOP x UCLA Architecture and Urban Design x Succulent Walls

Photo of LA Times building with logo
Fractured Future

Cracks found on L.A. Times building ahead of controversial development

Photo of The Hellman Building in Downtown Los Angeles
I Wanna Be Down

ArtCenter to take over old Main Museum space in Downtown Los Angeles

Rendering showing previous plans for Angels Landing towers
Time for a Haircut

Proposed Los Angeles tower loses supertall status

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