Design and Architecture
Bidding on the border wall, new apartment architecture
President Trump wants to build a border wall along the US-Mexican border, and hundreds of construction and engineering companies are lining up to help. Who’s interested, and why? Plus, as Los Angeles gets taller and denser, more of us will be living in apartments. We look to other global cities for design inspiration, and hear from an L.A. architect who is embracing an apartment-centric future.
By Frances Anderton • • 28m ListenPhoto: "The Wave: Flowing Ashore" in Vejle, Denmark. Designed by Henning Larsen Architects. (Thomas Moelvig)
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2 storiesBidding on the border wall
US Army Spc. Michael J. Westall uses a motorized boom lift to get into position to weld the reinforcement of the primary steel border fence along the United States-Mexico border on June 7, 2007. Photo by Senior Master Sgt. David H.
Read the story12 minNew apartment architecture
SL11024, a 31-unit housing complex designed by Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects, located in Westwood on the border of UCLA's campus More than 7,000 apartments are under construction right now in downtown Los Angeles, and others are going up in Hollywood, Koreatown, Culver City, Santa Monica and elsewhere in the Southland. But architecture critic…
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