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It’s not every day that a mayor’s home is featured in Dwell magazine!
Throughout his political career, Eric Garcetti has spoken of his commitment to “smart growth” and sustainable development. In fact, in our recent LA Grows UP outreach, a listener who is concerned about overdevelopment in Hollywood, Matt Messbarger, responded by saying: “We hear about “Smart Growth” but the term has proven to be …

After a few weeks of sturm and drang, MOCA’s “A New Sculpturalism” show is back on track, with a new opening date, announced Friday by the museum: “MOCA will present its exhibition on contemporary architecture from Southern California, A New Sculpturalism, opening June 16, 2013 at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA as part of Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A.  The museum is excited to …

 
It’s a night for the marriage of architecture and opera. The Walt Disney Concert Hall will present tonight its first of four performances of  The Marriage of Figaro with sets designed by French architect Jean Nouvel, whose sketch is shown, left, and costumes by Azzedine Alaïa)
Meanwhile in Santa Monica, The Broad Stage and LA Opera have joined forces to co-produce the world premiere of Dulce Rosa, a modern opera by composer …

The Walt Disney Concert Hall, designed by Frank Gehry, with acoustics by Yasuhisa Toyota, is one of LA’s landmark buildings, and it’s also one of the most finely tuned (tonight it features a performance of  The Marriage of Figaro with sets designed by French architect Jean Nouvel, whose sketch is shown, left, and costumes by Azzedine Alaïa.)
Now the acoustic experience may be damaged, according to a recent study that found …

When Alissa Walker isn’t doing thoughtful interviews (like this one with Brendan Ravenhill on this week’s DnA) or putting the world to rights (through causes like advocating for the rights of pedestrians), she is writing witty take-downs, like this skewering of the oft and tired skewering of LA by envious New Yorkers (and nothing stokes a skewering of a sunny, creative place than being harried …

If you want to know what’s going on in interior design and decorating, ask Mallery Roberts Morgan. Here she gives her recommendations for La Cienega Design Quarter’s Legends, starting tonight.
Legends is a three-day event with a jam-packed schedule of panel discussions, book-signings, showroom events, exhibitions, cocktails and lots of parties. Most of the event schedule is open only to design industry professionals – either by invitation …

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During the many hours we spend inching through LA’s highways, the character and landscape of Los Angeles is undergoing a transformation with many large building projects, on hold during the 08 recession, are now moving ahead. Several developments are very tall, for example the Millenium Towers in …

As many designers get ready to head to ICFF at the vast Javits Convention Center next week, others are getting their design fix with friends in the patios of showrooms in the La Cienega Design Quarter (the design district on and around La Cienega, between Beverly and Santa Monica Boulevard), which will play host to LEGENDS, a two-event blast of store displays and discussions starting this Wednesday, May 8. This …

The bumper crop of architecture exhibits on show on this summer are looking at “Modern” LA buildings. But one of LA’s most important architects had his roots in the Beaux Arts, did not come from Vienna (like RM Schindler and Richard Neutra) nor dabble in progressive politics or an experimental lifestyle. He is John Parkinson and this weekend he’s getting his due, as part of Britweek, …

If you want to experience architecture at its most sublime you might choose to visit the Vals spa in Switzerland (left courtesy of Arch Daily), a stark gray box made of layers of quartz quarried from its mountain site that gives way to a calming interior in which warm thermal pools lap against stone walls that glitter in the dancing rays of sunlight reflecting off the water.
This …