John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects

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LAPD Motor Transport Division + Main Street Parking

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.

Linda C. Lentz

May 16, 2011

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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.

Graduate Aerospace Laboratories at Caltech (GALCIT)

JFAK’s renovation of the Guggenheim Building at Caltech’s Graduate Aerospace Laboratories is an experiment in florid functionalism.

Sebastian Howard

September 1, 2009

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As you enter the lobby of the California Institute of Tech-nology’s Graduate Aerospace Laboratories (GALCIT), your eye is drawn upward, where an amoebalike entity clings to the ceiling.