Top 10 architecture moments of 2009

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'Small Case Study House' at the Gallery at REDCAT, JanuaryAlice Tully Hall and Wyly TheatreAnnenberg Community Beach House, Santa Monica, AprilThe Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook, with a visitors center by Safdie Rabines Architects, AprilPedestrian-only space on Broadway (and elsewhere), New York City, MayThe High Line in New York City"Feathered Edge," an installation by Ball-Nogues Studio, July"(500) Days of Summer," July"Hearts of the City," by Herbert Muschamp (Knopf), November, and "Building Up and Tearing Down," by Paul Goldberger (Monacelli), OctoberMetro's Gold Line extension and stations, November

<I>By Christopher Hawthorne, Times Architecture Critic</I><br>
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The talented and influential young Tokyo architecture firm Atelier Bow-Wow, after carefully studying the landmark postwar Case Study program, designed <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/03/post-1.html">three structures for REDCAT's main gallery</a>. Made of salvaged wood and open to the air, they hovered poetically between art and architecture, and between hardened and sweetly optimistic.

'Small Case Study House' at the Gallery at REDCAT, January

( Seth Wenig/Associated Press )

By Christopher Hawthorne, Times Architecture Critic

The talented and influential young Tokyo architecture firm Atelier Bow-Wow, after carefully studying the landmark postwar Case Study program, designed three structures for REDCAT's main gallery. Made of salvaged wood and open to the air, they hovered poetically between art and architecture, and between hardened and sweetly optimistic.

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