This Weekend: Tour the Carver Apartments by Michael Maltzan Architecture

Carver Apartments image via Zev's BlogThis weekend, deLaB (Design East of La Brea) will host a tour of the Carver Apartments by Michael Maltzan Architecture. Since they were completed in 2010, the Carver Apartments--the second Maltzan project for the Skid Row Housing Trust--have been celebrated for innovative design benefitting the large homeless population of Downtown Los Angeles. Tickets for the tour (available here) will cost $20 to tour the 97-unit supportive housing complex, with proceeds benefitting the Skid Row Housing Trust and deLaB.

In a bit of PR-serendipity, deLaB isn’t the only Los Angeles group that has focused  on the community-driven work of Michael Maltzan lately. The blog of LA County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky last week published a long, detailed account of Maltzan’s growing portfolio of work for the Skid Row Housing Trust, the most recent example of which is Star Apartments at 6th Street and Maple Avenue in Downtown LA. Zev’s Blog sums up this latest ambitious effort, which will begin installing units this month, as “a project that will graft pre-fabricated housing units onto an existing, multi-use single-story building at 6th Street and Maple Avenue. A new ‘structural tray’ atop the original building will support the network of 100-plus studio apartments being trucked in from a factory in Idaho, while also forming a kind of outdoor mezzanine with community gardens, jogging track, basketball court, yoga platform and shared kitchen, laundry and computer room spaces.”  So, fans of prefab, keep your calendars open for tours of Maltzan’s latest contribution to the welfare of Los Angeles when that project is complete spring or early summer 2013.

The Star Apartments. Rendering via Zev's Blog.

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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Saturday June 26: City Listening II hosted by deLab

Saturday, June 26th, is CITY LISTENING II, a very special annual fundraiser hosted by design east of la brea. There will be stories about LA by some of the leading design writers and most notable characters in the city. It will be an evening of free expression and generous libation in celebration of LA's design culture at large.

It's a short walk to the Spring Arts Tower after Dwell on Design for a fantastic show, food and drinks, a silent auction featuring art and design by members of the de LaB community, and - for the de LaB groupies and VIPs - an after party hosted at the Crocker Club by Los Angeles magazine's LA Circles Club.

Register HERE to buy tickets and find more information. Early bird tickets are available until June 10th.