Like Los Angeles, the Griffith Observatory, a 1935 Art Deco masterpiece conceived by Russell Porter and designed by the firm Austin and Ashley, exists in several domains, illusory and real. Whether glimpsed in the movies—1955’s "Rebel Without a Cause" or 1984’s "The Terminator"—or as a twilight destination in the Hollywood Hills, the Griffith’s iconic three-domed structure, what longtime observatory director Edwin Krupp calls the “hood ornament of Los Angeles,” also provides that rare Los Angeles accident: true public space.
The California Academy of Sciences needed a temporary home to accommodate research, administrative, and public spaces while its old facility, in Golden Gate Park, was being replaced with a new design by Renzo Piano.
Project Specs Gradman House Inverness Park, California Swatt Architects << Return to article the People Owners Marc and Elaine Gradman Architect Swatt Architects 5845 Doyle St. Suite 104, Emeryville, CA 94608. t: 510.985.9779 / f: 510.985.0116 Project team: Robert Swatt FAIA, Steven Stept AIA, Hiromi Ogawa, Sarina Bowen Interior designer Connie Wong 706 Josina Avenue Palo Alto, CA Engineer(s) Yu Strandberg Engineering 155 Filbert Street, Suite 234 Oakland, CA 94607 Consultant(s) Landscape Swatt Architects Lighting: Swatt Architects General contractor Calmell Construction P.O. Box 816 Woodacre, CA Photographer Cesar Rubio 415.550.6369 CAD system, project management, or other software used AutoCAD
Can a house be five levels but all on one story? It sounds like a riddle, but in fact the answer to that question was the solution to the design challenge of Marc and Elaine Gradman’s vacation home in Inverness Park, California.
Success has been bittersweet for Stephen Kanner, FAIA. Expanding Kanner Architects meant that Kanner, the third-generation principal of the firm, would have to move out of the Los Angeles office where he had worked since joining his father, Charles, in 1982.
The San Jose City Hall and Civic Center, in San Jose, Calif., marks the new centerpiece of a decade-long redevelopment of the city’s seven-block civic district.
The new Trauma and Critical Care Building forms the centerpiece of the Community Regional Medical Center’s 10-year redevelopment initiative, master planned by RTKL.
In planning its new Rebecca and John Moores Cancer Center, the only National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer care center in the region, UCSD sought a facility that would bring researchers, clinicians, prevention specialists, and educators under one roof in a “bench-to-bedside” approach to conquering cancer.