Beverly Hills Mixed-Use Campus: Frank Gehry

Beverly Hills Campus design by Frank Gehry architect

Developer Townscape Partners and architecture studio Gehry Partners propose an unsolicited plan to the Beverly Hills City Council to build a huge mixed-use campus: it includes cool office space, a five-star hotel, retail, and a three-acre public park

Skyslide US Bank Tower Los Angeles

Skyslide at US Bank Tower in Los Angeles

Architects: Gensler. Glass slide suspended from 1,000 feet up! A proposed intervention at the US Bank Tower in downtown Los Angeles to let people glide down the building’s exterior.

Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in California

Design: Diller Scofidio + Renfro , architects. BAM/PFA’s new building will open on January 31. The inaugural exhibition, Architecture of Life, includes over 200 works from the past 2,000 years. This is a combined art museum and repertory movie theater & archive, associated with the University of California, Berkeley.

SCI-Arc Events 2015: Los Angeles Lectures

SCI-Arc Presents Thick by Maxi Spina

The Southern California Institute of Architecture news – SCI-Arc announces Thick by Maxi Spina. Thickness is an increasingly elusive condition in architectural design. Alluded to in section, camouflaged in the figure-ground, and presented as a foil in the developable surface drawing, material thickness is an understudied architectural condition.

SCI-Arc Shanghai, China Architecture

SCI-Arc Shanghai

The Southern California Institute of Architecture launches SCI-Arc Shanghai, a New International Platform. New Director Hernan Diaz Alonso states, “SCI-Arc has become a mature, vital, and innovative institution operating on an international stage. We’re getting the school more and more involved on a global level.”

SL11024 Residential Development Los Angeles

SL11024 Residential

Design: LOHA. Through its materiality and form, LOHA’s design for SL11024 seamlessly engages its historically sensitive site and challenging hillside topography and creates a new model for urban development that enriches an academic community.

8600 Wilshire Residential Los Angeles

MAD Architects reveals 8600 Wilshire, a residential project located in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles. 8600 Wilshire is MAD’s first US project and demonstrates founder Ma Yansong’s core design philosophy.

Qantas New Business Lounge LAX

Qantas New Business Lounge

Global design and consulting firm Woods Bagot has designed the new Los Angeles Business Lounge for international airlines Qantas, Cathay Pacific and British Airways at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).

Martini House in Palm Springs, Modern Home

Martini House

Design: Greg Wolfson Interiors. The home was a traditional modern home built in 1960 and poorly updated in the 80’s. Mirrored walls abounded. Bad textured wall paper, ugly fixtures, built in shelves, etc.

Tanager House in Los Angeles Property

Tanager House

Design: McClean Design. This home on Tanager is the second of three we have designed on this tiny but very exclusive street in West Hollywood. Known for being on its own promontory, the views from this street are some of the best in the city.

Beverley Hills House, New Californian Residence

Beverly Hills House

Design: Pablo Jendretzki, Argentine Architect: full reconfiguration of a Hal Levitt 50’s house. The main premise of this intervention was to open the the house and connect as much as possible the exterior with the interior.

McKinnon Center for Global Affairs at Occidental College

Mckinnon Center For Global Affairs At Occidental College

Design: Belzberg Architects. The renovation and adaptive re-use of Occidental College’s historic Johnson Hall, integrates the enduring traditional qualities of a small liberal arts college with new educational practices.

The historic exterior of the building is preserved, whilst the interior is fundamentally rethought. The effect is fully transformative: rather than simply housing technology, the building has become technology itself.

Christopher W. Mount Gallery Los Angeles

TWA Flight Center New York

Christopher W. Mount Gallery Architecture Exhibitions. Specializing exclusively in architecture and design material, the newly established Christopher W. Mount Gallery, with locations in Los Angeles and New York, opens to the public on May 23, 2014.

Uniquely positioned among traditional American galleries, Mount Gallery presents drawings, sketches, models, photographs, prints, and art experiments by prominent figures engaged in the design arts.