Home for Local Veteran and Family in Los Angeles

Home for Local Veteran

Architects: SCI-Arc and Habitat for Humanity LA. Dubbed the IVRV House, the project champions the idea that beyond the crucial role of providing shelter, a well-designed home can help improve the lives and well-being of its residents, as well as the community beyond its walls.

FAB Park in Downtown Los Angeles, Public Space

FAB Park in Downtown Los Angeles

Design: OMA, architects / Mia Lehrer + Associates / IDEO. Team selected to design a new public park at First and Broadway for the City’s Department of Recreation and Parks, and soon to be one of the most important civic spaces in the city’s vibrant downtown core.

Amalfi Drive Development Pacific Palisades

Amalfi Drive Development

Architects: O+ L Building Projects. Working within the tight design guidelines governed by the Home Owners Association of the area, the building was designed in three distinct wings stepping up from the street

Pliaconis Residence in El Segundo

Pliaconis Residence

Architects: O+ L Building Projects. An extreme remodel for a couple whose children are grown and left the house, this Project is a reduction of building size while drastically updating the design to reflect the Clients desire to have a simple, clean modern building.

Marisol Residence in Malibu, California Home

Marisol Residence

Design: Burdge & Associates. MariSol Modern is the fifth extraordinary estate built by the developers of MariSol Malibu and in partnership with architect Doug Burdge, furniture design firm Minotti, and Cal-Point Builders.

Long Beach Civic Center building design

Long Beach Civic Center Building

Design: Arup with HOK. The facilities – a City Hall, Port HQ, Main Library, Public Park and street improvements – are designed to be occupied within a week of a major earthquake and meet REDi Gold earthquake performance.

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.”