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Saturday, November 22, 2008
An open environment
Home & Garden |
12:00AM, November 22
Tucked on a packed street in Manhattan Beach, the home of Shaya and Grant Kirkpatrick is based on a classic idea in Southern California Modernism: the coexistence of the open and the enclosed. Read more
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Revitalizing Watts, one home at a time
Entertainment |
November 2, 2008
It’s so hot that the heat doesn’t hang, it shimmers. Read more
Friday, October 31, 2008
Closing time at Hollywood club
California | Local |
October 31, 2008
Preservationists hoping to save the facade of a Richard Neutra-designed building at Hollywood’s most famous corner have been told they are 70 years too late to stop demolition. Read more
Sunday, October 26, 2008
No time for fancy work – let’s get local
Entertainment |
October 26, 2008
For the last several years, conventional wisdom has been gathering behind the idea that the world’s most innovative architectural projects would also, increasingly, be among the very biggest. Read more
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
A Western triumph
Entertainment |
October 22, 2008
In the spring of 1893, a financial panic hit Wall Street, sending the American economy skidding toward a depression. Read more
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Seeing red at design center
Business |
September 25, 2008
As construction workers laid steel posts from which a bright red building will rise at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood, architect Cesar Pelli inspected the progress and talked about how buildings had changed since the great Blue Whale first went up in the 1970s. Read more
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
The star system
Entertainment |
September 17, 2008
WHILE THE Venice Architecture Biennale remains the most anticipated and ambitious design show in the world – not to mention the only one featuring cocktail parties in canal-side palazzi – every edition is marked by a curious split personality. Read more
Friday, August 22, 2008
Actually, it is your grandfather’s Big Boy
California | Local |
August 22, 2008
There’s the massive doughnut that crowns Randy’s Donuts in Inglewood. Read more
Saturday, August 16, 2008
A modern relic
Home & Garden |
August 16, 2008
THERE IS no state-of-the-art media room, no marble spa bathroom, nor some of the other luxuries one might expect at the home of “High School Musical” creator Bill Borden and modern architect Melinda Gray. Read more
Monday, July 28, 2008
Making hospitals healthy
Health |
July 28, 2008
WITH hospital-acquired infections claiming more American lives each year than AIDS, breast cancer or automobile accidents, it seems the very facilities built to heal us have themselves become dangerous places. Read more
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Keeping his eye on earth and sky
Entertainment |
July 13, 2008
FEW GRASPED how John Lautner used architecture to embrace the natural world. Read more
Sunday, July 6, 2008
Rethinking Eden What’s left for those who missed out on that great little house and garden?
Magazine |
July 6, 2008
For much of the 20th century, Los Angeles was one of the few major cities in the United States–maybe the only one–that offered so much promise to new arrivals when it came to residential architecture. Read more
SPACE RHAPSODY
Magazine |
July 6, 2008
Walk into Anthony Pearson and Ramona Trent’s Mar Vista home and it’s difficult to tell that the dynamic space, rippling into the outdoors from a deceptively low entryway, began its life as a simple postwar California bungalow. Read more
Saturday, July 5, 2008
Atlanta’s new arch raises a few eyebrows
National |
July 5, 2008
On a sunny morning in June, Rodney Cook Jr. Read more
Saturday, June 7, 2008
Look, no gear – just a cause
Entertainment |
June 7, 2008
Renzo Piano, the Italian architect who designed the New York Times tower on 8th Avenue at 40th Street in Manhattan, made a point of keeping the building transparent at ground level. Read more
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Rising costs for getting the look of the past
Home & Garden |
May 1, 2008
Some homeowners need to replace a single fireplace tile. Read more
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Not a scrap of gingham
Home & Garden |
March 13, 2008
BEFORE construction had wrapped on Vanessa Choy and Andrew Wong’s house in Studio City, the rumors had started swirling. Read more
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Mr. Quiet’s casbah
Home & Garden |
February 21, 2008
EVEN in Silver Lake, where the prevailing architectural style is Anything Goes, the Priuses are slowing down to check out that house on Elevado Street. Read more
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Futuristic going on feudal
Entertainment |
February 10, 2008
MOSCOW’S $4-billion Crystal Island development won preliminary planning approval during the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day, just as Russians were beginning to need a glittering distraction from short, bleak winter days. Read more
