West Archives - The Architect’s Newspaper https://www.archpaper.com/category/region/west/ The most authoritative voice on architecture and design in the United States. Thu, 23 May 2024 20:45:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 PATTERNS’s medical campus in the San Fernando Valley disrupts the strip mall typology https://www.archpaper.com/2024/05/patterns-medical-campus-san-fernando-valley/ Thu, 23 May 2024 20:45:58 +0000 https://www.archpaper.com/?p=376670 Victory Boulevard cuts a straight line through the suburban San Fernando Valley. It’s a 20th-century time capsule: a wide swath of asphalt lined by lowrise retail, gas stations, and fast

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Lauren Halsey unveils sister dreamer, a temporary architectural installation in South Central Los Angeles https://www.archpaper.com/2024/05/lauren-halsey-temporary-installation-south-central-los-angeles/ Mon, 20 May 2024 20:53:05 +0000 https://www.archpaper.com/?p=376430 Lauren Halsey recently shared her vision for a new architectural installation in her hometown, South Central Los Angeles, that’s seventeen years in the making: sister dreamer, lauren halsey’s architectural ode

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Jia Yi Gu is stepping down from her role as MAK Center director https://www.archpaper.com/2024/05/jia-yi-gu-stepping-down-mak-center-director/ Fri, 17 May 2024 21:08:20 +0000 https://www.archpaper.com/?p=376378 The MAK Center for Art and Architecture’s Jia Yi Gu has announced she is stepping down from the role of director. In an Instagram post the architectural designer, curator, and historian

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What will come of Downtown Los Angeles’s Oceanwide Plaza? https://www.archpaper.com/2024/05/what-will-come-of-downtown-los-angeless-oceanwide-plaza/ Fri, 17 May 2024 16:37:10 +0000 https://www.archpaper.com/?p=376330 Is Oceanwide Plaza an object lesson? Stalled for more than five years, the project in Downtown Los Angeles stands half-built, filling an entire block across the street from the Crypto.com

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Hewitt completes Skyglass, a glass tower with an angled curtain wall https://www.archpaper.com/2024/05/hewitt-skyglass-glass-tower/ Fri, 17 May 2024 09:57:42 +0000 https://www.archpaper.com/?p=376082 Brought to you by: Architect: Hewitt Architects Location: Seattle Completion Date: 2023 View More Project Info The latest addition to Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood is Skyglass, a zig-zag-shaped residential

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Hill House, designed by Donaldson + Partners, is the result of an all-too-rare creative alignment between architect, client, and builder https://www.archpaper.com/2024/05/hill-house-donaldson-partners-creative-alignment-architect-client-builder/ Thu, 16 May 2024 20:07:55 +0000 https://www.archpaper.com/?p=376207 In the 1990s, after working on special effects for films, Lynda Weinman taught digital media and motion graphics at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, and wrote a

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Wayfarers Chapel, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright’s son, will be disassembled as land movement in the area continues https://www.archpaper.com/2024/05/wayfarers-chapel-disassembled-land-movement-area-continues/ Mon, 13 May 2024 18:41:32 +0000 https://www.archpaper.com/?p=376040 Today, representatives for Wayfarers Chapel in Rancho Palos Verde, California, announced plans to disassemble the 1951 ecclesiastical structure by Frank Lloyd Wright’s son, Lloyd Wright. Local firm Architectural Resources Group

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Donald Glover and Bestor Architecture deliver a playful boba tea cafe, Jellyman https://www.archpaper.com/2024/05/donald-glover-bestor-architecture-boba-tea-cafe-jellyman/ Mon, 13 May 2024 13:10:46 +0000 https://www.archpaper.com/?p=376024 Donald Glover, a.k.a. singer and rapper Childish Gambino, is getting into the restaurant business. His boba tea cafe, Jellyman, opened in the Silver Lake area of L.A., and there’s been

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The California Green Building Conference will take place on May 23 in Los Angeles https://www.archpaper.com/2024/05/california-green-building-conference-may-23-los-angeles/ Fri, 10 May 2024 19:13:14 +0000 https://www.archpaper.com/?p=375985 In April, California’s six regional chapters of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) formed an independent nonprofit that united the separate entities into a singular unit, now referred to as USGBC

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Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, “California cool” design visionary, dies at 95 https://www.archpaper.com/2024/05/barbara-stauffacher-solomon-dies/ Thu, 09 May 2024 17:53:38 +0000 https://www.archpaper.com/?p=375829 Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, the heralded landscape architect and graphic designer, died at her home in San Francisco on May 7 at age 95. News of her passing was confirmed by

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