What’s more honest than glass? It swept cities like a moral revolution with modernism, a century ago now. Land of …
Construction Sites of Los Angeles
The Century Plaza Hotel: 50 Years of Leisure
$2.5 billion, it will cost, to turn this hotel into another hotel. To reimagine leisure.
Wondrous and Immensely Bizarre at Olive and 5th, Downtown LA
13.7 billion years ago: Silent, but meltingly loud. From nothing, the possibility of movement. Rushing to the outside of what …
Disgust in Glendale
Under the ground there’s a shadow city. It thunders and gurgles down where it can’t be heard, a silent bassline …
“Small Units,” “Hip Design” in Mid-Wilshire
Half a mile away, a giant rock is suspended in the air. Suave creatives stroll beneath it while their children …
An East Hollywood Shrine to Safety
Frantic pregnant nesting. Giddy rebellion against gender norms. Duty amplified to the pitch of existential dread. A protective impulse flicking …
Construction Sites of Los Angeles: Regional Connector Transit Corridor, 1st and Alameda
Underworld. In London in 1863, sulphurous gas belched from the new Tube tunnels up to the streets, and families feared …
Construction Sites of Los Angeles: 435 West Los Feliz Road
MILL CREEK, say the site’s barriers. PEOPLE · PLACES · RELATIONSHIPS. Words like this repel thought, which seems not-accidental. Has …