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708s & Heartbreak

Moss’s project posits, through a handful of spare drawings, a “conceptual redo” of his 708 House, built in Pacific Palisades in 1982 and sadly incinerated in the recent wildfires, its playful flying buttresses, cheeky gangplank, and pomo supergraphics all gone up in smoke.

Casa Studies

What goes on behind the bougainvillea and stucco walls?

City of Angles

Because the Street View on this corner is a composite, like a David Hockney photo collage, I am only visible from one specific Dutch angle.

Greene Washed

I wondered how our guide would explain the anachronistic additions placed throughout the prodigious Craftsman home, built in 1908 by storied Pasadena firm Greene & Greene for some heirs to the Procter & Gamble fortune.

Helter Shelter

SOM’s design is a successful glow-up of LA Metro’s existing brown bus shelters—kind of like when a local coffee shop gets a matcha makeover.

Koo Koo for Pūpū Puffs

When I was eight, my culinary preferences stretched only as far as the Sherman Oaks Koo Koo Roo, a long-defunct rotisserie chicken chain that served the best Caesar salad in the world—or at least in the Valley.

Memory Palis

There were shots of Will Rogers’s house—and more with his car, his stable, and his horse Soapsuds—and of the old Presbyterian Conference Grounds in Temescal Canyon.

Wrighters’ Room

Would Louis B. Mayer (or his accountant) have ever signed off on a design so lush, so louche, so über-Wright as this?

Broad Code

The vault abides.


Sun Day Sudday Sun Day

Offering “self-care for you and your car” and multitiered memberships, Sun Day aims to disrupt the $15 billion car wash industry through a waxy formula of millennial minimalism, inspirational branding, and venture capital.

When You Wish Upon Mylar

Near the end of the film, Ciocchetti attends a party at Bernard Judge’s Triponent House (1962), a low-key affair that nonetheless sends him into a panic attack, banging against the dome home’s transparent Mylar windows.

Echoes of Deco

All the spectacle really does seem contrived to prohibit actual shopping.

Every String Everywhere All at Once

Throughout her wondrous life, Madeline Gins tried to rewrite the rules of the ultimate game.

Carriegate

And Just Like That … I had a proposal for a New York City zoning amendment.

Come Zither

In a venue where the art often plays second fiddle to the 360-degree view, Jones’s quiet refinements don’t try to compete with other stimulations.

Great Manse Theory

George Malone was a hawk-eyed patrolman of the Holmes Electric Protective Company turned dynamite snuffer.
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