(hellfroze– flickr/creative commons license) By MRY Architects, the Santa Monica library is a gold LEED certified building. A 200,000-gallon cistern captures rainwater for reuse in irrigation. Rooftop solar electric panels contribute to energy usage. Careful daylighting mixed with flashy …
Category: California
Work just started on Cesar Pelli’s addition to the ritzy Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood, California. The brilliant blue reflective cladding and the enormity of size have earned this building the name “blue whale.” A wide variety of …
(bkusler– flickr/creative commons license) The AIA Award winning Caltrans District 7 Headquarters Replacement Building in L.A. California, by Morphosis, has made quite a splash. Structural steel moment frames poke through the perforated metal panel. A variety of systems are put …
(stevendamron– flickr/creative commons license) I drove through San Fransisco on hwy 80 last weekend and noticed a number of impressive new structures going up around the urban core of the city. One that really stood out was the Federal Building …
(joevare– flickr/creative commons license) The Jewish Museum by Daniel Libeskind and WRNS Studio isn’t about preserving history or displaying artifacts, it’s about assimilation and perceptions of the Jewish community in America. It opened this June after severe delays and scale-downs …
Here’s an inside look at Renzo Piano’s Acadamy of Sciences at Golden Gate Park that will open later this year. The LEED Platinum building received a sterling New York Times review because of its expression of evolution, that …
Gensler and Associates designed the new Ritz Carlton and J.W. Marriott hotels downtown L.A. in the entertainment district. The complex includes a convention center, grand ballroom, and 54 story tower. Together with the Disney Concert Hall and Los Angeles City …
The first M. H. de Young Memorial Museum was built in 1894 and became a stripped down and ugly in the fifties, as was common in those days. After the ’89 earthquake damaged the building, Herzog and Meuron together with …
(petermcottle– flickr/creative commons license) The UC campus in San Diego has some amazing architecture. The Atkison Hall, a high-tech research home for the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) opened in 2005 with 900 researchers and staff from …