Once owned by Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Anthony Kiedis, this two-story home built on its rock and roll past to join the most notable modern homes of the Hollywood Hills. A recent renovation transformed it from a mish-mash of architectural styles into a light-filled hillside home that captures enormous views of the nearby Hollywood sign.
The home had previously undergone multiple owners and renovations, giving it a mostly Southern California Mediterranean look with a Spanish tile roof and tiny windows. AUX Architecture, led by Brian Wickersham, worked within a budget to produce an impactful and transformative design without structurally changing the home’s rooflines. The main focus was on opening the house up to the Hollywood sign view and emphasizing indoor-outdoor living with lighter and brighter spaces. AUX’s design used a strong contrast between a black exterior and a bright white, museum-quality interior. The home features glass walls (Fleetwood), upgraded cabinets and closets (Poliform), and installed luxury fixtures (Porcelanosa). The result is a completely new look for a home that anchors one of Los Angeles’ most desirable streets.
The 96,631‐square‐foot Ernest E. Tschannen Science Complex at California State University, Sacramento (Sac State), designed by Los Angeles‐based CO Architects, had its ceremonial topping out event recently. The new five‐story, $91.5‐million building will feature a state‐of‐the‐art, energy‐efficient, light‐filled science facility providing teaching and research laboratories for the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. Set on the banks of the American River, the facility will provide indoor and outdoor student collaboration spaces and terraces, as well as teaching and research laboratories, learning studios, classrooms, a roof‐top observatory, and a 120‐seat planetarium. The Ernest E. Tschannen Science Complex will be the university’s first new academic building in nearly 15 years, and is slated for completion in June 2019.
dosa by DOSA brings the energetic warmth and spirit of Mumbai street food to the easy-going Uptown Oakland neighborhood. We took full advantage of high ceilings and abundant natural light in the century-old, brick-and-timber building at 2301 Broadway. Hand-crafted interpretations of traditional Indian elements play with new and old, developing an enduring design idiom for future dosa by DOSA locations.
Article source: Michael Maltzan Architecture, Inc.
Located in Van Nuys, Crest Apartments transformed a vacant suburban lot into a 45,000 square-foot LEED Platinum permanent supportive housing center. The building includes 64 studio apartments for formerly homeless individuals, with 23 apartments set aside for homeless veterans. Completed in 2016, the project includes supportive services and community space for residents including social services offices, a communal kitchen, laundry room, conference room, residents’ lounge, and an outdoor community garden on the ground floor.
Brett Farrow Architect has completed a new residential project located in the Southern California Coastal community of Encinitas. The small two bedroom, revers floor plan home makes full use of the site’s panoramic ocean views from its hilltop location on a small and irregularly shaped lot.
“Winner of the highest national honor, 2018 Best in Housing, from The American Institute of Architects.”
This production house sets a new standard for the speculative tract housing industry. In addition to the home’s sustainable design features, Residence G offers to the home buying audience a production home that matches the presence of custom luxury estates, and does so at a record setting, low construction cost—approximately one-fourth the cost per square foot of the high end residences seem throughout Southern California. Clarity and precision, Minimal lines, walls of glass, measured proportions, and Cubist massing deliver iconic architecture negate the predictable Taco-Bell-style or Mid-Century Modern-influenced tract homes prevalent in the area. In the past few years, Residence G and similar other designs by this architect have been built and sold, totaling over 200 completed homes in Palm Springs under the thesis of “Modern for the Masses.” The agenda has ignited an entirely new movement of architecture and demographics in the region.
The brief for the 135,000sqft Gores Group Headquarters was not altogether uncommon: renovate an existing three-story office building and adjacent parking structure. But our team saw opportunities; we questioned the design potential of a standard glass façade typical of the typology and, with only one or two key moves, transformed the profile of the building and fundamentally changed the way employees at this legal services firm interact with one another and their surroundings.
The project is located on a residential street in a traditional sector of Los Angeles (Mar Vista) at a distance of 4 miles from Venice Beach. The neighborhood consists of single-family houses, mostly single-story, with the typology of southern California houses: porch, sloping ceilings, façade materials with wood and stucco coatings, demarcation of the main access, among others.
Galini Sleeping Pod Launches as the Perfect Sustainable Getaway at Walden Monterey on California’s Central Coast.
Designed by Laith Sayigh and developed by Signature Investments Group, the 300-square-foot self-sustaining structures are the preamble for a residential enclave set on 609 acres and overlooking California’s central coast.
Today Laith Sayigh of the design studio DFA and entrepreneur Nickolas Jekogian III of Signature Investments Group, both in New York City, released the design of the Galini Sleeping Pod, a 3D-printed temporary living apparatus envisioned to introduce what more permanent living quarters within Walden Monterey’s idyllic ‘life in the woods’ setting will be like. DFA has worked alongside the Tennessee-based company Branch Technologies to develop the 3D printed structure.
myGini Office, designed by Istanbul based Ofist, is located in a characteristic brick building that built in 1858 in San Francisco and it captures a design line which respects to space without competing with the area.
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