By: alinur

alinur — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 07:22:53 +0000

Los Angeles Housing architecture is an exclusive. This is the latest architecture design.

By: Andrew Chell

Andrew Chell — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:58:14 +0000

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By: christoph plattner

christoph plattner — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:57:50 +0000

I am happy to see how the residents took over. I visited the building right after completion and still empty; even at such a point you still can't know what it's gonna be like once it's occupied (you can only imagine). So it looks like it's working, especially the outdoor spaces (a subject worth to be looked at in regards to housing in LA!). What you can't see in the film is the tremendous amount of work, efforts, discussions, commitment, time, patience, negotiations etc. to make it possible. Unfortunately most architects can't or don't want to afford to do a project like that. Design excellence is one part, the other one almost more important is how you struggle with very limited possibilities given the low budget and compared e.g. to most private residences. I think that's one of the main reason why this project stays as an outstanding example for social housing. In the end, like in this movie, everybody is very happy about the final building, congratulations and compliments all around. But it is so hard to accomplish, it takes so much of staying power, negotiating skills, persuasiveness, time...and nobody pays for it. Respect for every architect who is able to built navigating design intents in a reasonable way through all uncontrollable factors constantly jeopardizing them. Respect which can't be valued high enough. Look around you and you know.

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