It has been a full decade since Thom Mayne made a major mark on his home city of Los Angeles. After the architect’s Caltrans District 7 Headquarters opened in downtown L.A. in 2004—a looming, relentlessly gray battleship that helped Mayne win the Pritzker Prize the following year—he pursued prominent commissions around the country and the world, including an academic building in New York for Cooper Union (RECORD, November 2009, page 96), the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas (RECORD, January 2013, page 78) and the Phare Tower on the edge of Paris, which remains unbuilt.
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