CO Architects Redesign Natural History Museum

CO Architects is helping to breathe new life into the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHM) with an innovative expansion and re-imagination of the institution’s North Campus, which dates back to the 1920s.

The $30- million project’s focus includes a redesigned front façade with entry bridge, pedestrian-friendly terraces and communal areas, a new two-level car park, and a major landscape program encompassing 3.5-acres of recovered green spaces with programmed gardens and outdoor learning environments.

Read more about it here.

Architecture and Design at the Museum of Latin American Art

MOLAA is proud to present a series of architecture and design lectures. Experts in these fields will speak about the various architectural and design styles present in Latin America, particularly Cuba, while providing a historical context for the different style movements which have influenced that country’s architecture.

Sunday, July 11, Mitzi March Mogul, who is President of the Art Deco Society of Los Angeles and a Historic Preservation Consultant, will present a lecture on Cuban Art Deco. Art Deco is the dominant style of Cuban architecture and reflects its history as a cosmopolitan, sophisticated society. This presentation will take you on a tour of the island’s Art Deco architecture and examine it’s social, cultural, and political contexts.

Mobius LA 2010 On-Site Guide, June 24-26th, Digital Version

AIA/Los Angeles' Design Education Conference at Dwell On Design This Week

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2010 California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

Over 1500 students, staff, faculty and administrators in California higher education will gather from June 20-23, 2010 at the 9th annual California Higher Education Sustainability Conference at Los Angeles Trade-Technical College, to explore the ways in which we can implement social, environmental, and economic sustainability on our campuses statewide; prepare this generation for green collar jobs, and bring sustainability to campus practices, policies and contemporary culture.

deLaB's City Listening II: Stories About LA - Saturday Night FORM Discount

Stories about LA read by your favorite design writers. FORM is a sponsor.

FORM audience 20% DISCOUNT regular tickets and de LaB Groupie tickets with the code: form

http://event.designeastoflabrea.org/

Join us for an evening of free expression and generous libation in celebration of LA's design culture at large.

Balcony Press is donating the newest releases Paris: Women & Bicycles and Kitchen Centric for prizes!

Featuring stories about LA read by the city's leading writers on design and urbanism:

• KCRW's Frances Anderton on Living with Gehry
• A live "Ask Chris" session with Chris Nichols from Los Angeles Magazine
• John Chase laments the lack of fun-size Twix bars
• LA Creek Freak Joe Linton on the bridges we cross
• Ken Bernstein on hidden gems uncovered by Survey LA
• A parade of disturbing interiors from Marissa Gluck
• Architectural short fiction by Tom Marble
• Tibby Rothman's Untitled Art World Story
• Poetic stylings of gelato urbanist Alissa Walker
• Nick Adams, author of Making Friends with Black People
• Brooke Hodge from The New York Times' The Moment
• Los Angeles Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne
• Sam Lubell, California editor of The Architect's Newspaper
• Rico Gagliano and Brendan Newnam of The Dinner Party Download
•  Editor-in-chief of GOOD Zach Frechette
• and letters to LA written by students from 826LA
• Hosted by de LaB's Haily Zaki, Alissa Walker and Marissa Gluck

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