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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

April 16, 2020

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

March 23, 2020

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

February 14, 2020

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

February 6, 2020

Rendering of new LACMA campus in LA..

Mo' Money, Mo' Problems

LACMA receives $50 million gift towards controversial campus rebuild

January 31, 2020

Rendering of a storefront in downtown Los Angeles

Brothers to Brothers

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

January 2, 2020

Interior view of gallery space with translucent sculpture in center

Built to Scale highlights exclusionary principles in the built environment

December 27, 2019

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

Plastic Surgery

Los Angeles roads may soon be paved with recycled plastic

October 15, 2019

People ascending a staircase in the Arup office

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

October 14, 2019

Photo of a rooftop cabana at Soho House

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

October 2, 2019

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

September 17, 2019

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.

September 5, 2019