In Paris, a passion for all things Frank Gehry
Frank Gehry has a significant history in Paris -- and something of a mixed record.
View ArticleMaltzan's One Santa Fe apartment complex plays with notion of density
Every once in a while a piece of architecture comes along that is emblematic of a moment in a city's architectural and urban development. One Santa Fe, a 438-unit apartment complex in the arts district...
View Article'L.A. Plays Itself,' but do films get it right?
After years as an influential but rarely screen cult classic, Thom Andersen's 2003 documentary, "Los Angeles Plays Itself," will finally be released on DVD this week. Andersen, a professor of film...
View ArticleParis' Louis Vuitton Foundation epitomizes Frank Gehry's genius
The personal or private museum, built to hold the blue-chip paintings of a wealthy collector, is more of an American phenomenon than a European one.
View ArticleComprehensive 'Gehry' retrospective in Paris draws sociological blank
The ground-floor gallery at the Pompidou Center, where curators Frédéric Migayrou and Aurélien Lemonier have installed "Frank Gehry," a major retrospective that runs through Jan. 26, looks right out...
View ArticleGrand Park benefits Made in America, but is the reverse true?
Was Made in America more about bringing down barriers or putting them up?
View ArticleFall marks season of revival for architecture in Los Angeles
Architecture is not just slow. It's a hurry-up-and-wait profession at its core, chancy and contingent, as vulnerable to the cold feet of clients as the whims of capital markets. During the Great...
View ArticleMetro's Union Station master plan a significant shift
Union Station celebrated its 75th anniversary in May. This month we're getting a glimpse — encouraging if opaque — of what its next 75 years might look like.
View ArticleRenzo Piano defends academy museum plans
A few minutes after sitting down to talk with Renzo Piano in his large, airy Paris studio Tuesday, I asked the architect about the progress of the film museum he is designing for the Academy of Motion...
View ArticleIn Paris, a passion for all things Frank Gehry
Frank Gehry has a significant history in Paris -- and something of a mixed record.
View ArticleMaltzan's One Santa Fe apartment complex plays with notion of density
Every once in a while a piece of architecture comes along that is emblematic of a moment in a city's architectural and urban development. One Santa Fe, a 438-unit apartment complex in the arts district...
View Article'Constructing Worlds' exhibit at Barbican explores buildings as neighbors
Thirty years ago, the Italian photographer Luigi Ghirri complained that pictures of well-known buildings were often as conventional and flat as mediocre still-life paintings "but executed out of doors."
View ArticleAt 50, Music Center's 'backward' orientation may see a turnaround
If practice is what gets you to Carnegie Hall, as the saying goes, what gets you to the Music Center has always been a car.
View ArticleKoreatown's cool old buildings point to L.A.'s future
A 1941 Los Angeles guidebook described architect Myron Hunt's I. Magnin building on Wilshire Boulevard, finished two years earlier, as an "elaborate new" department store with shop floors "furnished in...
View ArticleHow Arcadia is remaking itself as a magnet for Chinese money
Most Los Angeles architects are lucky if they complete two or three houses by their early 30s.
View Article'Latino Urbanism' influences a Los Angeles in flux
Work crews in recent weeks have made major design changes to Broadway in downtown Los Angeles, widening the sidewalks and adding planters, chairs and round cafe tables with bright-red umbrellas where...
View ArticleChristopher Hawthorne's best of architecture in 2014
Here is Christopher Hawthorne's look at the best of architecture in 2014.
View ArticleThe future is in the past: Architecture trends in 2014
These were the words of the year in architecture: Basic. Fundamental. Primitive. Ancient.
View ArticleARTIC bullet-train station a curious, conspicuous bit of symbolism
Construction will begin next month on the first stretch of California's high-speed rail network. It will run from Fresno to Madera.
View ArticleCompelling case for gray at Pomona College's Studio Art Hall
There's a large room on the upper floor of the new Studio Art Hall at Pomona College, designed by the Culver City architecture firm wHY, called the "Gray Space." It doesn't have any fixed furniture....
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