Frank Gehry unveils changes to Eisenhower Memorial design
New changes to the contentious design for the Eisenhower Memorial were publicly unveiled on Tuesday at a session in Washington. Architect...
Thom Mayne to design new Cornell University building in New York
Architect Thom Mayne has been chosen to design a new Cornell University building that is to rise on Roosevelt Island in New York. Mayne,...
Critic's Notebook: Metro douses expectations on Union Station project
Talk about raining on your own parade.
Star architects unveil wild plans for Union Station circa 2050
Architects from some of the most prominent firms in the world -- including Renzo Piano and UN Studio's Ben Van Berkel -- joined a...
At the Huntington, a Japanese Garden of new delights
Gloria Cox may be a grandmother, but she's grinning like a little kid as she slips into a shady nook formed by twining juniper branches in...
An Esther McCoy revival tells story of L.A.'s modern architecture
Esther McCoy is having a moment. The architecture critic and historian, who died in 1989 at age 85, is the subject of a smart Pacific...
In Los Angeles, it's back to the future
On a perfectly clear afternoon last week, Eames Demetrios, grandson of the pioneering, multitalented designers Charles and Ray Eames, met me...
Critic's notebook: Skyscrapers remain powerful symbols, post 9/11
Any skyscraper is a contradiction.
Architecture review: National September 11 Memorial
If you were expecting the National September 11 Memorial to turn out to be a visionary or uncompromising monument to human tragedy and...
Critic's Notebook: Shifting horizons in Santa Monica parks design
Standing atop a patch of churned-up dirt on a recent morning, James Corner was surrounded by mismatched palm trees, chipped sidewalks and...
Critic's Notebook: A design that's bold, restrained and secure
Last month, at the end of a walk along the edge of the National Mall, I tried to reach the section of E Street that runs south of the...
Critic's Notebook: Hollywood landmark at a crossroads
When it opened in 1956, the Capitol Records building was surrounded mostly by surface parking lots, making it easy to spot from the nearby...
Eldon Davis dies at 94; architect designed 'Googie' coffee shops
Eldon Davis, an influential architect known as the father of the California coffee shop for midcentury designs inspired by the Space Age and...
Annenberg Center construction set for April
The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, which has been in the planning stages for a decade and a half, finally will begin...
Downtown's new city walk
Usually the trajectory that neighborhoods go through as they gentrify is entirely predictable -- and more than a little depressing. First...
'Inception' dreams big, unlike its architect
Everybody has an opinion about "Inception," and mine comes in the form of a question: Why are the movie's architectural settings, for the...
Critic's Notebook: 'Architecture of the Sun: Los Angeles Modernism 1900-1970'
Thomas S. Hines, a professor emeritus at UCLA, is the dean of architectural historians in Los Angeles, the author of major studies of the...
L.A. Unified's faulty vision for schools on Ambassador site
Along one edge of the old Ambassador Hotel site, where the Los Angeles Unified School District has been building a controversial...
Critic’s Notebook: What L.A. might ask of Eli Broad
It's a familiar recipe for urban revitalization in downtown Los Angeles.
U.S. embassy: An outpost as a signpost
The two stories that have dominated the architectural press over the last few weeks -- the unveiling of a winning design for a new...
Bruce Graham dies at 84; architect of iconic Chicago skyscrapers
Bruce Graham, the hard-driving architect of the Willis Tower, once the world's tallest building, and the John Hancock Center, the X-braced...
Raimund Abraham dies at 76; Austrian-born architect, theorist and teacher
Raimund Abraham, an Austrian-born architect known for his powerfully enigmatic drawings and fierce idealism, and whose narrow, blade-like...
Digital video runs a screen on the cityscape
Apple is expected to unveil its much-anticipated touch-screen tablet on Wednesday morning. A few journalists see the device as a possible...
Jeanne Gang brings feminine touch to Chicago's muscled skyline
Before we turn to an assessment of Aqua, a new residential skyscraper in Chicago, permit me a quick (and relevant!) detour to a sidewalk...
Architecture: Star architects emerge, but even they find limits
Architecture, arguably for the first time in its history, found itself at the very center of American cultural and political life in the...
Architectural follies at MOCA Pacific Design Center
After spending countless hours poring over images of architectural follies from around the world, L.A.-based architects Frank Escher and...
Frederick Fisher's radical vision
The Los Angeles architect Frederick Fisher, who turned 60 earlier this year, is anything but a doctrinaire designer or a dogmatic...
1960s architecture: L.A. and the paradox of preservation
Modern architecture is growing old. The groundbreaking designers at Germany's Bauhaus began building nearly a century ago. Many landmarks of...
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