When the Museum opens later this year, on Wilshire and Fairfax in the Miracle Mile neighborhood of Los Angeles, and just in time for a new awards season, expect a blockbuster.
A product of this rich heritage of craftsmanship, the Neverending Collection is, much like LASVIT itself, a bridge between Old World and New.
Designer Maya Lin is of a different nature. At just 21 years old, while still a Yale undergrad, she entered the winning design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC, one of 27,000 submissions.
From a decades-old VW van, aspiring actor Spencer Falls pulled up curbside on Abbott Kinney to sell a few flowers. More impulse than business at the time, “The whole idea was a bit of a laugh, really,” he says, confessing no real intention to start a brand.
That iconic American architect Frank Lloyd Wright eventually found work in Los Angeles feels a bit like prophecy—he remains one of the most colorful characters in architectural history. Opinionated and flamboyant, a swashbuckler, he was a personality perfect for these parts.
Wrightwood 659 exudes a beautiful simplicity results from what is in reality a complex architectural calculus by Osaka-based architect Tadao Ando.
It’s an interesting question, what an international, award-winning architecture, design and planning firm might create if designing a space for itself. For Gensler, the answer is this model of future design in Downtown Los Angeles.
In San Francisco, Twitter employees are enjoying a smooth commute. The company’s skybridge, a floating glass span 100 feet above a pedestrian alley in the city’s Mid-Market district, has eased the flow of traffic considerably.
Soaring an astounding 16 stories and boasting a beehive-like design by London-based Heatherwick Studio, the company’s Vessel might have been a bit of a Trojan horse were it not so thoughtfully conceived.
