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The most decisive year in LA’s modern history is around the corner. Will the city meet the moment?
Postfire redevelopment could help long-term Altadena residents regain their footing—or hasten their exit.
Tesla Diner, designed by Stantec, opened at 7001 Santa Monica Boulevard in July.
In July, Tesla opened its own neo-Googie Diner on Santa Monica Boulevard, giving Los Angeles a slice of Muskian techno-utopia.
“Something to wrap the herring in” by Esther McCoy appeared in the February 1986 issue of Progressive Architecture. The magazine published Roger Corman’s response in August of that year.
McCoy takes shots at MGM Studios, Mel Brooks, and the director Herbert Ross—La Mesa property owners all—but reserves the bulk of her disgust for Roger Corman.
The Small Lots, Big Impacts initiative is a collaboration between cityLAB-UCLA, LA4LA, and the City of Los Angeles. The winners of its inaugural design competition were announced in May.
There’s room aplenty within LA’s vast sprawl, where interstices of immanent potential have been left unbothered for the last hundred years.
Franklin D. Israel: A Life in Architecture by Todd Gannon. Getty Research Institute, 256 pp., $60.
Franklin D. Israel embraced the “intensification of uncertainty” on the long slide toward oblivion of the American Century, with Los Angeles, as always, glittering on the precipice.
