Designed by the Culver City firm Johnson Favaro, the new library is a stirring reaffirmation of the power of civic architecture that came through the punishing low-bid public construction process with its lively spirit fully intact. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
Shutting down the 405 Freeway for a summer weekend turned out to be the traffic disaster that wasn’t. But the debate it prompted -- about mobility, transportation and the primacy of the freeway in L.A.’s collective imagination -- was overdue and productive. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
