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MORPHOSIS 5960 Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood 2014 Emerson College opened this Morphosis-designed, glass-and- aluminum satellite campus in Hollywood in 2014. While Emerson has been Boston-based since the nineteenth century and has long focused on the performing arts, the Los Angeles campus aims to boost graduates’ job prospects by allowing them to spend semesters in the company of the area’s entertainment industry giants. The campus, which features a first-rate view of the Hollywood sign, firmly indicates Emerson’s prominent role as an entertainment industry educator. A sculptural, free-form base connects the two rectangular ten-story towers that make up this 107,400-square-foot building on LOS ANGELES Sunset Boulevard. An overhead bridge anchors two towers, which serve as student residences. The base features lecture halls, black box theaters, and other educational and performance spaces. In order to maximize the creative possibilities of the building, Morphosis’s design includes rigging for film-quality lighting and sound through most of the interior and exterior spaces, so that students may spontaneously transform them into sets or a stage. Thanks to Morphosis’s smart balance of window shading for heat reduction and use of the abundant natural light, the Emerson campus is anticipated to receive a LEED Gold rating. In addition, solar panels cover the rooftop of the west tower, providing enough energy to heat the building’s hot water. EMERSON COLLEGE COLLEGE EMERSON 10 11 38 TIGHE ARCHITECTURE 1338 North Sierra Bonita Avenue, West Hollywood 2010 Affordable meets beautiful in special needs residents, while its features large glass panels and this mixed-use building by Tighe ground-floor commercial space is rooms that appear to protrude or Architecture. The West Hollywood occupied by WHCHC, which helps sink into the structure. Community Housing Corporation provide services for the building’s The building also serves as (WHCHC), a nonprofit that secures residents. a pilot for West Hollywood’s and develops safe, comfortable, The building’s design includes new Green Building Ordinance and affordable housing for low- a drought-resistant bamboo forest certification, a local alternative income residents, commissioned courtyard and individual terraces to LEED certification. Environ- the sixty-thousand-square-foot, for each of the apartments, mentally friendly features include five-story Sierra Bonita building, providing the apartment-dwellers photovoltaic panels on the completed in 2010. with easy access to relaxing, building’s two rooftop patios, a The building’s forty-two meditative outdoor spaces. Its hot water system heated by solar one-bedroom apartments are striking, topographic facade, power, and strategically located reserved for low-income and which faces Sierra Bonita Avenue, windows to maximize natural light. BONITA 39 SIERRA 41 48 GEHRY PARTNERS 111 South Grand Avenue, Downtown Los Angeles 2003 Perhaps the most famous to design French fighter jets to Chandler Pavilion, part of the contemporary building in transform his organic drawings into Los Angeles Music Center. Los Angeles, Gehry Partners’ building plans, creating an exterior Walt Disney Concert Hall’s shimmering concert hall, that visually echoes Gehry’s iconic auditorium seats more than completed in 2003, functions 1997 Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. two thousand and features as the focal point of the city’s The stainless steel exterior reflects skylights to maximize light and artistic downtown. Plans for the light, creating an otherworldly acoustics curvature. Driven by home base of the Los Angeles effect under the Los Angeles sun: the commitment to make classical Philharmonic, or LA Phil, began sweeping panels of metal surround music accessible to the public, in 1987, when Lillian Disney the building, imitating the hull of a the concert hall features neither donated $50 million to build ship, while the entrance gives the the suites nor the private boxes a public music venue in honor appearance of two large sails. The typical of other concert spaces. of her late husband. concert hall’s undulating exterior Meanwhile, the building’s exteriors, Frank Gehry’s firm utilized the contrasts with the clean, modernist which include elevated gardens, same computer software used designs of neighboring Dorothy are open to the public. HALL CONCERT 49 WALT DISNEY WALT 50 51 53 DILLER SCOFIDIO + RENFRO with GENSLER 221 South Grand Avenue, Downtown Los Angeles 2015 The Broad is a relatively recent The veil forms the latticelike works from both the Broad Art addition to Los Angeles’s booming exoskeleton of the building and Foundation and the Broads’ contemporary arts scene. Located allows natural light to enter the personal collection. Easily next to Frank Gehry’s iconic Walt museum’s two floors of gallery accessible by public transit and Disney Concert Hall in Downtown space. It lifts at the corners, with ample bike parking locations Los Angeles, the museum opened allowing visitors to enter on the and electric car charging stations, its doors in September 2015 and in ground level. Upon entering the the Broad achieved LEED Gold its first two years welcomed more almost cavernous space, visitors certification in 2016. than two million visitors. Designed are greeted by the underside of by Diller Scofidio + Renfro in the floating vault. To access the collaboration with Gensler for the galleries, the public is ushered philanthropists and art collectors up escalators tunneling through Eli and Edythe Broad, the building the center of the vault. features a striking exterior known With 120,000 square feet as the “veil,” while the collection of space, the museum is home storage is the “vault.” to more than two thousand BROAD BROAD THE 55 56 57 116 117 118 119 GENSLER 889 Francisco Street, Downtown Los Angeles 2019 Metropolis, a massive four- Indigo, a boutique hotel with building megaproject in 350 rooms. The first residential Downtown Los Angeles, is quickly tower, with thirty-eight floors, revolutionizing the city’s skyline. boasts 306 apartments ranging While various plans to develop from studios and one- the project’s six-acre lot on bedroom apartments to two- Francisco Street have been story penthouses. Tower II is brewing since the 1980s, substantially larger, with 514 construction for Metropolis only one- and two-bedroom units began in 2014. Developed by and a rooftop pool. The largest the Shanghai-based real estate tower, Tower III, will be fifty-six company Greenland USA, the stories with 736 condos when 3.5 million-square-foot project it is completed in 2019. Other was designed by Gensler. amenities in the residential towers The project includes a luxury include floor-to-ceiling windows retail pavilion that will be open to with panoramic views, dog parks, the public, three residential towers, fitness centers, a meditation and the eighteen-story Hotel garden, and a yoga studio. 127 METROPOLIS 130 131 132 MICHAEL MALTZAN ARCHITECTURE 1624 South Hope Street, Downtown Los Angeles 2009 With its distinct spiraling, circular Apartments, located a mile from the apartments’ base houses shape and location adjacent to the Skid Row, serve as permanent medical and social service highway, New Carver Apartments housing for previously homeless facilities, while an outdoor is highly recognizable for frequent elderly people and people with courtyard constitutes the center I-90 drivers. Michael Maltzan disabilities. of the ring-shaped building, Architecture designed this 2009 In planning the building, Maltzan allowing for outdoor gatherings and apartment building for Skid Row privileged design features that ample natural light. The rounded Housing Trust, an organization that ensure residents of New Carver walls of New Carver Apartments, provides permanent residences Apartments have access to care meanwhile, are designed to reduce and support to Los Angeles’s and services as well as ample noise pollution from the busy large homeless population. The space for community-building and highway, ensuring that residents ninety-seven units of New Carver social engagement. As a result, have a quiet, tranquil home. APARTMENTS CARVER 133 NEW 135 174 175.

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