Architect Jon Frishman spent more than a decade building his own 1,400-square-foot home and studio located on a steep parcel in Laurel Canyon, the increasingly pricey Los Angeles neighborhood bordering West Hollywood.
Nip and Tuck in Hollywood: A Los Angeles firm does reconstructive surgery on a 1960s house to turn it into a glamorous pad for a pair of fashion models.
Your visit starts in an unremarkable city park adjacent to a generic shopping mall. Local kids are playing tag, while a man in short sleeves throws a stick for his dog and a family picnics on the grass. You follow a concrete path, which turns into a gently sloping ramp descending into the ground. On either side of you, concrete walls rise to meet an angled green roof, slowly blocking out the sounds of people enjoying the park. The laughter gets more faint, the excited chatter less distinct. As you enter the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust (LAMOTH), you
New to Downtown L.A.’s developing Gallery Row, John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects’ Main Street Parking + Motor Transport Division building for the Los Angeles Police Department sets a glowing standard for utilitarian civic architecture.
Part of the three-stage master plan for the Los Angeles Police Department Headquarters (2009), spearheaded by an AECOM/Roth + Sheppard joint venture in the city’s redeveloping Downtown, the Main Street Parking + Motor Transport Division is the kind of ancillary project that could sever a neighborhood by virtue of its sheer mass and typically unattractive aesthetic.
On land once inhabited by native Tongva people and, centuries later, by the Hughes Aircraft Company, the planned community of Playa Vista is gradually rising on Los Angeles’s West Side.
A four-level, 27,000-square-foot performance hall with an auditorium on the two main floors, office space on a small third floor, a lounge and parking below plaza level, and three additional floors of subterranean parking.