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Click here to view the full photogallery. Now that that lame-o 405 shutdown is over, let's get to the good shutdown--there'll be another installment of CicLAvia this Sunday from 10 am to 3 pm. This time, the linear block party has a new route, running 9.1 miles from MacArthur Park to the Civic Center to Little Tokyo to Chinatown to Mariachi Plaza …
Curbed Los Angeles - Architecture 2012-09-28 20:42:02
Click here to view the full photogallery. The great Rudolph Schindler designed La Jolla's El Pueblo Ribera Court in 1923--it originally included 12 units (now just six) "arranged for excellent views of the Pacific Ocean with large garden courts," according to Triangle Modernist Houses. It's apparently also one of only two beach projects by Schindler, according to this listing for a unit …
Curbed Los Angeles - Architecture 2012-09-27 22:01:49
Click here to view the full photogallery. Case Study House #10, the only house built in Pasadena for the hugely influential modern Case Study House program, sold just two months ago (for its listing price of $1.599 million) and work started last week on a big restoration. The 1947 house was originally designed by the father-son team of Kemper Nomland and Kemper …
Curbed Los Angeles - Architecture 2012-09-15 00:51:58
It's Sheets Week and we're celebrating Millard Sheets, the artist and architectural designer who dotted Southern California with beautiful modern Home Savings bank branches. Throughout the week, we'll be touring some of the Sheets buildings that still stand. Click here to view the full photogallery. Photos by Elizabeth Daniels Beverly Hills Home Savings, 9245 Wilshire Blvd. This 1953 building (still a bank, now a Chase) …
Curbed Los Angeles - Architecture 2012-09-14 23:04:50
Click here to view the full photogallery. This week, the city unveiled the three designs competing to replace the Sixth Street Viaduct (the current 1932 bridge, which is landmarked, has concrete cancer--sad). The city intends to make the new bridge an icon and over the summer selected three finalists to compete for design rights: HNTB, AECOM, and Parsons Brinckerhoff. According to the …
Curbed Los Angeles - Architecture 2012-09-13 07:49:20
It's Sheets Week and we're celebrating Millard Sheets, the artist and architectural designer who dotted Southern California with beautiful modern Home Savings bank branches. Throughout the week, we'll be touring some of the Sheets buildings that still stand. Click here to view the full photogallery. Photos by Elizabeth Daniels Garrison Theater, Scripps College The Claremont Colleges umbrella org commissioned the 1963 theater from Sheets (after …
Curbed Los Angeles - Architecture 2012-09-13 07:04:59
It's Sheets Week and we're celebrating Millard Sheets, the artist and architectural designer who dotted Southern California with beautiful modern Home Savings bank branches. Hollywood Home Savings stained glass by Susan Hertel by Elizabeth Daniels While Millard Sheets was the guiding artistic force behind the Home Savings banks, he worked with a very talented team to create the buildings, as well as the …
Curbed Los Angeles - Architecture 2012-09-12 02:45:50
It's Sheets Week and we're celebrating Millard Sheets, the artist and architectural designer who dotted Southern California with beautiful modern Home Savings bank branches (now mostly Chases). Throughout the week, we'll be touring some of the Sheets buildings that still stand. Click here to view the full photogallery. Photos by Elizabeth Daniels In 1953, Millard Sheets created Millard Sheets Designs Inc.; "at the height …
Curbed Los Angeles - Architecture 2012-09-11 10:48:03
SANTA MONICA/INGLEWOOD: This fall, the AIA/LA is opening up a few classic pieces of LA architecture that have been renovated by contemporary architects (one a month through December)--they're starting with the John Entenza House on September 23 and the Inglewood Duplex on October 7. According to the AIA, "With this new tour series -- The Modernist / ContemporaryTour -- we strive …
Curbed Los Angeles - Architecture 2012-09-11 08:57:41
Tonight, the Culver City Council takes up an appeal of the planning commission's prior approval of a sleek 7-Eleven (hey, those things aren't necessarily mutually exclusive) planned for the corner of Sepulveda and Braddock Drive. How'd this place get so Death Star-looking? According to the agenda report for tonight, "The Planning Commission determined that it was necessary to avoid the standard …
Curbed Los Angeles - Architecture 2012-09-11 04:26:53
It's Sheets Week and we're celebrating Millard Sheets, the artist and architectural designer who dotted Southern California with beautiful modern Home Savings bank branches (now mostly Chases). Throughout the week, we'll be touring some of the Sheets buildings that still stand. Click here to view the full photogallery. Photos by Elizabeth Daniels The bank branch at Sunset and Vine is probably one of the …
Curbed Los Angeles - Architecture 2012-09-10 21:44:19
Most of the Home Savings banks are now Chases; Sunset and Vine photo by Elizabeth Daniels Welcome to Sheets Week, Curbed LA's five-day festival for artist and architectural designer Millard Sheets. Sheets was born in the Pomona Valley in 1907 and he made irreplaceable contributions to Southern California's art and architecture scenes over the next 80 years--as a young painter, he helped …
Curbed Los Angeles - Architecture 2012-08-30 10:18:50
Click here to view the full photogallery. Images by Henry Salazar via Zev Yaroslavsky With the Grand Park opening next door (the next segment debuts on September 11), County Supe Zev Yaroslavsky's always-informative website takes a look at the aging but lovely Hall of Records. The 15-story modernist building was designed by the great Richard Neutra and turns 50 years old this year--it's …
Curbed Los Angeles - Architecture 2012-08-24 23:34:55
Click here to view the full photogallery. There are a whole bunch of high profile multi-family buildings out there on the market right now--the castle-like Le Trianon by Leland Bryant in Hollywood, Downtown's art deco Title Guarantee Building by John and Donald Parkinson, and now a modern option: Mid-Wilshire's Dunsmuir Flats, designed by Gregory Ain and built in 1938. The building has …
Curbed Los Angeles - Architecture 2012-08-16 06:49:44
Click here to view the full photogallery. Photos by Elizabeth Daniels French artist Xavier Veilhan has gently messed with some sacred LA architecture--his installation Architectones fills the Neutra VDL Research House on the Silver Lake Reservoir with sculptures meant to play off both the house's modern architecture and the life of its architect Richard Neutra. (He also filled Pierre Koenig's Case Study House …
Curbed Los Angeles - Architecture 2012-08-14 07:34:38
Image via Dwell GLASSELL PARK: One of those little gentrifying neighborhoods north of Downtown is getting some love from no less than Dwell--they have a feature on a ranch house remade over the past decade by the local firm Standard (the owners are a writer and a documentarian whose parents happen to own Room & Board). The team used the house's existing …
Curbed Los Angeles - Architecture 2012-08-06 21:31:01
Photos by Elizabeth Daniels Now that the Grand Park has partially opened, we can turn our attentions to the next element of the slow-moving Grand Avenue redevelopment--The Broad, philanthropist Eli Broad's vanity museum, one of very few architecturally-interesting buildings going up these days around LA. Architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro have created a design they call "the vault and the veil": the …
Curbed Los Angeles - Architecture 2012-07-24 07:27:06
Click here to view the full photogallery. This is a very SoCal notion: don't shape your house to the land, let the land shape your house? Via eVolo, architect Fernando Herrera has dreamed up Seismic Vestiges, an LA house made up of "materialized contours or 'strands'" bundled tightly together to for things like wall and loosely for things like windows. Meanwhile, the …
Curbed Los Angeles - Architecture 2012-07-21 10:48:37
Click here to view the full photogallery. The LA Forum for Architecture and Urban Design is turning 25 this year and to celebrate they've dug through their archives and put together Unfinished Business, showing now at Woodbury University's WUHO Gallery in Hollywood. The conversation around architecture and urban design has grown up a lot since 1987 when the group was founded (it …
Curbed Los Angeles - Architecture 2012-07-14 02:36:36
Click here to view the full photogallery. Images via Archinect Doesn't combined Frank Gehry/Brad Pitt news just make you feel all fuzzy on a Friday afternoon? Work just finished this week on Gehry's duplex for Pitt's Make It Right Foundation, which builds starchitect-designed, sustainable houses in New Orleans's Lower Ninth Ward. Archinect shares photos and the press release, which says this is Gehry's …
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