Insider Trading Event-August 25th at DWR Santa Monica

Join us Thursday August 25th for cocktails and hors d’oeuvres at DWR’s Santa Monica showroom. During the evening, our headline sponsors will reveal their deep, unspoken discount programs for architects and designers. Peruse the spectacular furniture and kitchen products on-site, hang out with your colleagues, and celebrate the end of summer in classic FORM style. Special prizes/additional discounts will be awarded at the door.

Please RSVP at rsvp@formmag.net with your name, title, company, phone, and email. 

August 25th, 6:30-9:30 PM

Design Within Reach, 332 Santa Monica Blvd., Santa Monica

May 16 - Radical Preservation Luncheon at Santa Monica Bay Women's Club

Ann Gray, Publisher of Balcony Press and our own FORM Magazine, will moderate a panel discussion on May 16 at the Santa Monica Bay Women's Club entitled "Radical Preservation: An Unorthodox Approach Might be the Only Answer." The luncheon is part of the larger annual California Preservation Conference, with this year's theme as "Preservation on the Edge."

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CALL FOR ENTRIES: LA Forum Announces DINGBAT 2.0

Open international design competition deadline June 4^thDingbat apartment facade, West Hollywood

The Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design proposes DINGBAT 2.0, an open, single-stage, international design competition, reconsidering Los Angeles’ ubiquitous Dingbat apartment building for the 21st century. All designers, architects, artists, engineers, students, and other interested parties are fully eligible for participation in this competition. This is an ideas competition that calls for the consideration of the Dingbat not only as a housing typology, but also for the impact of Dingbats on the urban fabric of residential neighborhoods in Los Angeles. Three different areas of Los Angeles will be considered for the competition: single-block neighborhoods in West Hollywood, Palms, and Santa Monica.