Charged with adding expansive and flexible exhibition space to the museum's campus, the Renzo Piano team—who were responsible for the neighboring Broad Contemporary Art Museum, completed in 2008—designed an open-plan pavilion large enough to accommodate large-scale works or several separate exhibitions simultaneously.
Talking to 27-year-old architect Jayna Cooper about the house she designed and built for herself on busy La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles, you’d think it all came about through luck and happenstance. But, as someone smart once said, luck is no accident.
Using a process of renovation through subtraction, the New York—based firm Lynch / Eisinger / Design (L/E/D) created a multitenant commercial building in part by taking away pieces of an old industrial complex.
The new, 1.2 million square-foot, eight-story Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, incorporating the Mattel Children's Hospital and the Stewart and Lynda Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital, is a state-of-the-art facility with a humanizing and uplifting environment.
During its 20 years of designing, renovating, and building houses mostly in Southern California, Marmol Radziner + Associates has soaked up a rich tradition of Modernism and interpreted it in a series of projects that engage nature as an instrument of architecture.
Project Specs Inner-City Arts, Phase III Los Angeles, California Michael Maltzan Architecture << Return to article the People Architect Michael Maltzan Architecture, Inc. 2801 Hyperion Avenue, Studio 107 Los Angeles, CA 90027 T 323-913-3098 / F 323-913-5932 www.mmaltzan.com Design Principal: Michael T. Maltzan, FAIA Project Director: Tim Williams Project Manager: Stacy Nakano Design Team: Kurt Sattler, Krista Scheib, Jeff Soler Project Team: Owen Tang, Terence Cheng, Yvonne Lau, Michael McDonald, David Freeland, Brad Groff Architect of record Michael Maltzan, FAIA Associate architect(s): Phase I Associate Executive Architect of Phase I Marmol Radziner and Associates www.marmol-radziner.com/ Engineer(s): Structural Engineer: John A.
One thing that often surprises first-time visitors to downtown Los Angeles is the proximity of its gleaming clutch of skyscrapers and cultural facilities to the homeless encampments in the area known as Skid Row.