The Grand plan for the Broad museum
By Mike Boehm, Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe architectural design that Eli Broad is scheduled to reveal Thursday in a news conference at Walt Disney Concert Hall wraps the museum...
Critic's notebook: Broad museum design pointed in the right direction
By Christopher Hawthorne, Los Angeles Times Architecture CriticThere is much to admire in the design, to be released Thursday, for the $130-million museum Eli Broad plans to build on Bunker Hill...
Critic's Notebook: Los Angeles needs a game plan
By Christopher Hawthorne, Los Angeles Times Architecture CriticIs this any way to build a city?
There's nothing groundbreaking in downtown L.A. stadium design proposals
By Christopher HawthorneIf the three competing designs for a football stadium in downtown Los Angeles released Wednesday were an NFL division, they'd be the NFC...
Ann Goldstein takes her MOCA learning to Amsterdam
By Hunter Drohojowska-PhilpThe Stedelijk Museum has a long-standing reputation in the art world for innovation. That spirit was underscored with the 2009 choice of...
Exhibition Review: Architect Stephen Kanner, a quiet cosmopolitan
By Christopher HawthorneStephen Kanner, who died earlier this year of pancreatic cancer at age 54, was something of an outlier among architects of his generation...
Downtown's new city walk
Christopher HawthorneUsually the trajectory that neighborhoods go through as they gentrify is entirely predictable -- and more than a little depressing. First...
'Inception' dreams big, unlike its architect
By Christopher Hawthorne, Los Angeles Times Architecture CriticEverybody has an opinion about "Inception," and mine comes in the form of a question: Why are the movie's architectural settings, for the...
Critic's Notebook: 'Architecture of the Sun: Los Angeles Modernism 1900-1970'
By Christopher Hawthorne, Los Angeles Times Architecture CriticThomas S. Hines, a professor emeritus at UCLA, is the dean of architectural historians in Los Angeles, the author of major studies of the...
L.A. Unified's faulty vision for schools on Ambassador site
By Christopher Hawthorne, Los Angeles Times Architecture CriticAlong one edge of the old Ambassador Hotel site, where the Los Angeles Unified School District has been building a controversial...
Critic’s Notebook: What L.A. might ask of Eli Broad
By Christopher Hawthorne, Los Angeles Times Architecture CriticIt's a familiar recipe for urban revitalization in downtown Los Angeles.
U.S. embassy: An outpost as a signpost
By CHRISTOPHER HAWTHORNEThe two stories that have dominated the architectural press over the last few weeks -- the unveiling of a winning design for a new...
Bruce Graham dies at 84; architect of iconic Chicago skyscrapers
By Blair KaminBruce Graham, the hard-driving architect of the Willis Tower, once the world's tallest building, and the John Hancock Center, the X-braced...
Raimund Abraham dies at 76; Austrian-born architect, theorist and teacher
By Christopher HawthorneRaimund Abraham, an Austrian-born architect known for his powerfully enigmatic drawings and fierce idealism, and whose narrow, blade-like...
Digital video runs a screen on the cityscape
By CHRISTOPHER HAWTHORNEApple is expected to unveil its much-anticipated touch-screen tablet on Wednesday morning. A few journalists see the device as a possible...
Jeanne Gang brings feminine touch to Chicago's muscled skyline
By CHRISTOPHER HAWTHORNEBefore we turn to an assessment of Aqua, a new residential skyscraper in Chicago, permit me a quick (and relevant!) detour to a sidewalk...
Architecture: Star architects emerge, but even they find limits
By Christopher Hawthorne architecture critic >>>Architecture, arguably for the first time in its history, found itself at the very center of American cultural and political life in the...
Architectural follies at MOCA Pacific Design Center
By Liesl BradnerAfter spending countless hours poring over images of architectural follies from around the world, L.A.-based architects Frank Escher and...
Frederick Fisher's radical vision
By Christopher HawthorneThe Los Angeles architect Frederick Fisher, who turned 60 earlier this year, is anything but a doctrinaire designer or a dogmatic...
1960s architecture: L.A. and the paradox of preservation
By CHRISTOPHER HAWTHORNEModern architecture is growing old. The groundbreaking designers at Germany's Bauhaus began building nearly a century ago. Many landmarks of...
Kicking up the dust of change
By CHRISTOPHER HAWTHORNEThe news in the architecture profession has been dominated for much of the summer by a few guardians of homeland and propriety -- one of...
L.A. as filtered by love in '(500) Days of Summer'
By CHRISTOPHER HAWTHORNE"(500) Days of Summer" is a movie about obsessions -- gentle, often charming and non-stalkerish obsessions, for the most part, but...
