LA Beyond Cars: A Global Perspective on Rail and Public Space

In a culmination of its international Call for Ideas launched earlier this summer, railLA announced the July 29 opening of a curated exhibit entitled LA Beyond Cars. Participants to the Call for Ideas submitted conceptual designs, art, studies, inventions, city plans, videos and other creative solutions revolving around the topic of high-speed rail, its integration into the design of cities and visions of a future more sustainable, pedestrian-friendly, transit-oriented and less reliant on automobiles. Over 100 works were received, including invited submissions from renowned architects MVRDV, Eric Owen Moss, Topotek1, and Pritzker Prize laureates Thom Mayne, Sir Norman Foster, and Zaha Hadid. The 15,000 s.f. exhibit space will display drawings, models, videos, animations, a rail-inspired installation by sculptor Stephen Glassman and will host interactive station design workshops by artist and planner, James Rojas.

The exhibit will run July 30 through August 28 from 11:00am-7:00pm in the "Jewel Box" at the base of the City National Bank Plaza towers, 525 South Flower Street, in Downtown Los Angeles.

SUPERFRONT is proud to present OPEN HOUSE | STATE SECRETS, opening July 22

OPEN HOUSE | STATE SECRETS is about the dark side of architecture – ‘architecture’ in both the abstract political use of the term and the literal experience of normative buildings. Conceiving of this exhibition as a laboratory, Farrah Karapetian, Mitch McEwen, and architectural collective Bureau E.A.S.T will accumulate work in SUPERFRONT’s space between July 6th and August 22nd. SUPERFRONT’s space at the Pacific Design Center becomes a studio for the exploration of the parameters of photography, sculpture, mapping, and architecture.

RSVP for the August 5 International Issue Event at Palecek

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Palecek Showroom at L.A. Mart Design Center
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1933 S. Broadway
Los Angeles, CA - Downtown, 90007
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Chen Exhibits Presents Lazy Haze

From July 1 through August 13, there will be an exhibition of outdoor vintage Modern and Classic furniture at the JF Chen Loft. Nice intro here

Gensler Reveals its 007 Museum

In honor of the 50th anniversary of Dr. No, the first of the James Bond blockbusters, the Museum of Bond Vehicles and Espionage will open its doors next year in Momence, IL. Gensler's design of the 14,000-square-foot structure—intended to hold the world's largest collection of vehicles driven in Bond films and exhibitions exploring the impact of the debonair spy—features an exterior sheathed in an unbroken expanse of black corrugated metal, save for a single window marked by two zeros and culminating in the angled shape of a seven. [via WAN]