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Architecture & Design

Architecture has a long life span. What we build and create says multitudes about what we value. See the stories that are shaping the landscape of Los Angeles and beyond.

A young girl stands in the foreground with a backdrop of flying birds and a halo of concentric circles.
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Arroyo Grande photographer Nyla James finds beauty in abandoned buildings across America.
Overlooking Palm Springs from the Desert Inn Grounds (cropped)
Nellie Coffman opened the Desert Inn in 1909 as a sanatorium for tubercular patients. It soon grew into a famed resort.
Harry Brant Chandler's love of art began at an early age. At 62, he has been thriving for the last decade as a painter, photographer, sculptor and digital artist.
Collection of Los Alamos Rolodex. | Photo: © The Center for Land Use Interpretation.
A collection of found Rolodexes has become a historical snapshot of American high-tech corporations -- their logos and graphics locked in time.
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The transformation is underway. The physical manifestation of Wilshire Boulevard's Museum Row is emerging from east to west.
"Nufonia Must Fall." | Photo: A.J. Korkidakis.
Production designer K.K. Barrett steps into the director's role for project "Nufonia Must Fall" -- DJ/producer Kid Koala's live action graphic novel.
Artbound episode "Art and Protest" explores art created amid social upheaval, including segments on Noah Purifoy, Andrea Bowers, and muralist El Mac.
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With more than 110 themed rooms and suites, San Luis Obispo's Madonna Inn has been a popular destination for artists, architecture buffs and tourists since it opened in 1958.
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Though the Sixth Street Viaduct of yore will soon be a thing of memory, it and its sister bridges across the Los Angeles River played a pivotal role in the making of Los Angeles.
"Rooftop Garden 2" by Sara J. Frantz
Sara J. Frantz's graphic gouache and graphite drawings explore the tension between manmade structures and the natural landscapes that surround them.
Aerial view of UC Irvine in Dec. 1967. Courtesy of the Special Collections and Archives, UC Irvine Libraries.
UC Irvine's campus, now 50 years old, was unlike any that preceded it.
In 2013, Los Angeles Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne - eyeing the park's oversized orange spheres and the oversized tower - called Pershing Square "a perfectly depressing symbol of L.A.'s neglected public realm."
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