Columnist · March 3, 2025
On Preservation, by Brian Curran “Skyscraper Reveals New Type of Architecture,” announced the Los Angeles Times Real Estate section in 1929 at the release of plans for a new tower […]
Nona Sue Friedman · March 3, 2025
If you blink you’ll miss the bust of A.W. Ross at 5799 Wilshire Blvd., located in a grassy little triangle facing the stretch of boulevard he created, Miracle Mile. Without […]
Columnist · September 29, 2022
October 13-16 is “Modernism Week October” in Palm Springs, a celebration of the desert city’s history and heritage as a laboratory for modern, mid-century and contemporary design. Really a Modernism […]
Suzan Filipek · June 29, 2017
Last month we asked our readers to send us their memories of the Fred Harvey Room at Union Station. While we didn’t receive any reminiscences about one of the last […]
Suzan Filipek · September 3, 2014
A six-story, 138-unit, mixed-use project has been given the okay at City Hall, and neighbors are bracing themselves for more construction in Sycamore Square. The Mansfield, at 5100 Wilshire Blvd., […]
Laura Eversz · February 27, 2014
Stiles O. Clements, who designed the Pasadena Showcase House, was a prominent Southern California architect for 50 years. He studied architecture at the Drexel Institute in Philadelphia, and took further […]
