Gail Kennard Madyun

At the noisy construction site of the new 77th Street Regional Police Facility in South-Central Los Angeles, Gail Kennard Madyun is surrounded by welders fusing the beams and columns of a steel skeleton. Her slight figure, capped by a yellow hard hat, is dwarfed by the scale of the $37-million project. Once again, she recalls how she came to be part of this scene. Her thoughts drift back to the day, 10 years earlier, when her father, architect Robert Kennard, called her in Atlanta.

At the noisy construction site of the new 77th Street Regional Police Facility in South-Central Los Angeles, Gail Kennard Madyun is surrounded by welders fusing the beams and columns of a steel skeleton. Her slight figure, capped by a yellow hard hat, is dwarfed by the scale of the $37-million project. Once again, she recalls how she came to be part of this scene. Her thoughts drift back to the day, 10 years earlier, when her father, architect Robert Kennard, called her in Atlanta.

Robert A. Kennard, an architect and founder of the oldest African American architecture firm in Los Angeles, has died. He was 74. Kennard, who established his own firm, later known as Kennard Design Group, in 1957, died Friday in Los Angeles of lymphoma. His firm has designed more than 700 projects in Southern California, including parking structures No.

When the Inner City Cultural Center's longtime executive director C. Bernard Jackson died last summer, supporters vowed to carry on his legacy. But Inner City's financial problems were worse at Jackson's death than was commonly known. Inner City's Hollywood headquarters, the Ivar Theatre, was quietly foreclosed on last year, before Jackson died. Inner City continued to rent the Ivar for its Talent Fest competition.