Success has been bittersweet for Stephen Kanner, FAIA. Expanding Kanner Architects meant that Kanner, the third-generation principal of the firm, would have to move out of the Los Angeles office where he had worked since joining his father, Charles, in 1982. “It was leaving a place where I grew up. But we needed to grow and communicate better with each other,” says the architect. “And the space we found was so beautiful.” His scheme for the new workplace stresses continuity with the past by highlighting the character of the historic interior—and by reinterpreting some of the best elements of the firm’s former home, too.
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