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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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A design review board may add another layer of bureaucracy to the already complicated politics surrounding the L.A. River.
What can account for the extraordinary exhibit that Roberta Goldberg sets up every year in her Beverly Hills condo?
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Many support the idea of a design review board, which could "really uplift the meaning of design along the Los Angeles River."
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The proposed projects along the river adds a different flavor to its surroundings, but do they in some way knit this future riverside area together?
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This week L.A. Letters spotlights Culver City, its natural landscape, illustrious history, and the brisk redevelopment that has reenergized the city's core over the last decade.
The desert sculptures of Jael Hoffman represent the artist's philosophy on an internal tension between the true and projected self.
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Behind the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Hollyhock House near Los Feliz lies a fascinating and complicated story, and at its center, a woman whose dreams were often dashed by bureaucracy, difficult collaborators, and herself.
An early color photo of the arena. Courtesy of the Orange County Archives.
A new Space Age arena arrived in the summer of 1967.
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This week L.A. Letters covers two poignant Los Angeles documentaries, and also gives a brief overview of the forthcoming literary mega-event in North Hollywood.
© 2014 Paul Vu Photographer, Cal Expo Photoshoot, August 29, 2014
At Cal Poly Pomona, students designed prototypes for affordable cabins to increase the popularity of camping in state parks, which have seen a decline in visitors and funding.
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Pumpkins actually have a pretty cool history that goes back thousands of years.
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In the foothills of Fair Oaks Avenue, there lies the infamous 48-acre art junkyard Zorthian Ranch where resident artists milk goats and make cheese, while hundreds of notable people have gathered to exchange ideas and celebrate life.
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