Skyslide US Bank Tower 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.
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James Goldstein House in Beverly Hills, California
The owner of John Lautner’s Beverly Hills space-age masterpiece – James Goldstein – has promised the estate and its contents to Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).
SCI-Arc Southern California Institute of Architecture
SCI-Arc appoint Graham Harman, Ph.D. to its Liberal Arts Faculty. Also, MAIN EVENT 12 will take place March 12 at Sound Nightclub in Hollywood.
Sunset Plaza Drive Residence in West Hollywood
Design: GWdesign. Interior designer Dominic Gasparoly and architect Khalid Watson of this New York / Los Angeles-based studio have composed a sexy four-storied home.
Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive
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
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
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
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.
Columbia Square Hollywood, CBS Radio Building
Columbia Square development in Hollywood – LA Times article about NeueHaus that will take up residence in the new building.
Qantas New Business Lounge LAX
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
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
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
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
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
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.
San Vicente House, California Property
Design: McClean Design. Designed for a family with three small girls this house needed to respond to the busy street it is located on. We came up with a sequence of entry which uses several devices to separate the occupants from the noise beyond.
The drive court is screened from the street by high gates and tall landscaped elements. This area connects to an inner courtyard through a curving glass screen designed to allow the light to pass through but shield from the cars and noise.