Dan Caroselli
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LA obsessive, devotee | City of Los Angeles Civil Servant | personal account -- views expressed are my own
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Almost unbelievable — someone bought the awesome 1988 Balboa Beach House by Arthur Erickson and turned it into um.. this
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Like people getting up early to watch the sunrise at the Grand Canyon, I got up before dawn today to catch the first light on Ricardo Bofill’s Les Espaces d'Abraxas (1978-1983) in the Paris suburb of Noisy-le-Grand.
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Some awesome Arthur Erickson buildings in his home country of Canada:
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Nah, l’m good. Just cover it all up with fake brick thanks.
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I saw these Optima apartment buildings in the Phoenix area.. they are pretty.. awesome?
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And a couple major landmarks he designed here in so. California
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@PerversePossum
@LuxiesATwit
It’s right on the beach and it all opens up to the ocean air so it should never get too hot
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I just remembered about Oregon organic architect Robert Harvey Oshatz — I’m kinda confused as to why his work doesn’t show up on Twitter more? Most of his projects are in PNW but the third one here is in Studio City. 1985 Stevens/Harnell Residence.
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Drove down Alexandria today and stopped to take a photo of the 1939 Kennedy Duplex, by Schindler protoge Edward Richard Lind. This used to be one of my favorite facades in LA — I say “used to” because so many newer houses look like this that it’s hard to even “see” it anymore.
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These 5 over 1’s on single SFR-sized lots are still borderline shocking to me. This one is on a 7,750 sq ft lot in Koreatown.
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As an Angeleno/Californian, the scale of new development in Montpellier (pop. ~300,000) is incredible. It’s the fastest growing city in France, and at least a good percentage of that growth is happening at higher densities. This is the Higher Roch Tower, Brenac & Gonzalez, 2022.
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This is 1800 Pacific Coast Highway in Redondo Beach, built in 2002. 98 detached home condos built on top of a parking garage wrapped with a few retail spots. I thought this was strange when I was younger and now I realize how completely bonkers and singular it is.
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These condo townhouses in Country Club Park were built last year. Glass bricks 80s streamline revival is back, baby!
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I’m usually never able to decide/declare my “favorites” but I realized recently that this has to be my favorite house. A. Quincy Jones’ first house/duplex/studio, from 1939, in the laurel canyon hills. Photo from the listing when it last sold in 2015.
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I really enjoy how Lloyd Wright’s 1920’s designs took full advantage of looking really cool on google streetview
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Some nice simple stuff coming out of Kevin Tsai Architecture lately
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@maxdubler
We didn’t have one of these but we had a wooden “sunken galleon” in our storm basin park that would “sink” during rain storms. I’m very nostalgic for it.
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7 story building on 5,000 sf lot going up just west of USC.
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While looking through the 60s and 70s in the Getty Julius Shulman online archives, I have fallen in love with the work of mcm/late modern Iowa firm Crites and McConnell. You might have seen their UU Church in Cedar Rapids (1966), below. An appreciation 🧵 of Shulman’s photos:
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Was curious so I ran the numbers on this: the shaded part of LA City in this map is roughly the same size as Philadelphia (126 sq miles vs Philly’s 134). It has ~150k more people than Philly but ~50k fewer housing units. It also has almost 50k less people who commute by transit.
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Had a few minutes to walk around Villa San Pasqual (1953) in Pasadena recently. Cameras really can’t capture this place!
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1960s apartments in the valley are the zenith of western architecture because you know where the entrance is.
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Saw this today while driving. I’m not a traditionalist or anything but man this is nicely done. Very rare to see something like this. Originally a house with a smaller back unit, it’s now a two-building fourplex.
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Today I learned that the University of Texas, El Paso, is built in a unified style inspired by Bhutanese architecture
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Starting a thread where I’ll put intersections or blocks in LA that are particularly inviting/“human scale” urban design-wise. Since Oscars was tonight I’m starting with some that are nearby. Here’s N. Orchid and Bonita Terrace:
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Since this took off I want to state for the record that I don’t believe in the concept of “architectural crimes” and wish no ill will upon the owner of this property. Peace, love, laugh, live ✌️ ☮️
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Finally had a chance to make a map using LA County assessor data to show multifamily buildings by decade built (size of circle corresponds to number of units). Really interesting to compare the successive waves of development and redevelopment in central LA.
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This is maybe my favorite LA book that I own, and I always wish more people knew it / could see it. I found it at a used book store ($16) many years ago, but just now looked it up and it’s ~$300.. so I’ll try and figure out a good light set up to share some of the best pages.
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After looking for a bunch of old LA apartment buildings and mostly finding them long gone, I am pretty sure these are the three oldest surviving apartment bldgs (5 or more units) in Los Angeles. 1900, on 8th; 1901, on Grand; 1901, on Albany.
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Imagine what LA would be like if every multifamily street had a tree canopy like this (this is Santa Monica)
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Stood in the middle of Eagle Rock Blvd in Glassell Park this morning to try and match this view from 70 years ago.
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Everything in LA looks 300x better in the first sunshine after rain.
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I’ve always loved these construction photos of City Hall where it’s fully framed but nothing has been hung on it yet. I assume this must have been standard practice at a certain time?What are similar pictures of other recognizable landmark skeletons like this?
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CA has some incredible city halls, including some designed by big name modern/postmodern architects. Here’s the city halls of San Jose (Richard Meier, 2005), Fresno (Arthur Erickson, 1991), Oceanside (Charles Moore, 1990), and San Bernardino (Cesar Pelli, 1972).
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It’s pretty impressive how much design variety 20’s and 30’s developers were able to get onto the facades of otherwise very cookie cutter developments. These are all duplexes with basically the same layouts.
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In the mid-2000s I got to tour TBWA/Chiat/Day’s office in the Playa Del Rey area (pre-Playa Vista), and it blew me away. Built in 1998 and designed by Clive Wilkinson, it introduced the “city in a box” office concept that’s still going strong 25+ yrs later. (Photos from CW site).
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Just learned about the 1937 Keck Gottschalk Keck apartments in Chicago — as far as I’ve seen it was the first international-style building in Chicago. The windows have little thin louvers. Really cool.
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Just found this 1937 house on streetview in Burbank. I would love to live in a house like this.
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600 San Pedro, the new 300-unit 17-story Weingart permanent supportive housing project, is shaping up to be one of the best-looking apartment towers in recent memory here in LA.
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Exactly!!
You periodic reminder that 5-over-1s could look exactly like this if the architects had enough humility to learn things long proven to work. But no, it’s trained out of us in architecture school, where I spent 5 years. Been trying to make up for it ever since.
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Sometimes I look at some house or apartment building in LA from the 1920s and I’m just like “Is this a joke to you? Is shelter — one of the fundamental needs for human life — all just a silly joke to you?”
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Photo was backlit so had to really dial up the filters to show the detail… but this is easily one of the top 10 facades in LA IMO.
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Would be so cool to live in a neighborhood where everyone lived in buildings like this. Closest thing to Barbie movie IRL.
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I recently found an Architecture Magazine article on Hayden Tract from 2001 with some renderings/models. When (w)rapper was finished last year and there was a ton of discourse, I felt like missing was the fact that this was an *old building* that was just finally built now.
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the underside of the new sixth st bridge is awe-inspiring. The car commercials can have the top, this is where the real drama is.
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I like to think that in the future downtown San Diego will be a late postmodern UNESCO heritage site
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Saw this while google earth-ing Minneapolis. Looks straight out of Sim City:
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This 1989 Ed Niles glass house in Vail must have a next-level heating bill
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It’s 73 right now in Playa del Rey and 92 in Chatsworth. Both of these are in the City of LA. This temp difference is totally common. Does any other municipality have 20 degree variation within its borders? Maybe Anchorage?
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It’s like we’re in a kids’ movie or book where there’s some evil force that is draining the color out of everything.
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I love this super millennial-y picture of Neutra’s 1936 Von Sternberg house taken by Julius Shulman. I’ve never been able to find a higher-res version of it online though (unless I want to buy an original print for $2k…)
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80-some years apart in DTLA at the confluence of Main and Spring:
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🧵 of buildings I had a chance to photograph while I was on the Caltech campus recently.
Beckman Auditorium, 1964, Edward Durrell Stone
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Went down to my hometown of Manhattan Beach to see my dad and got a chance to walk around my elementary school, a WPA project from 1939. I never want to glorify MB’s history but I have so many fond “architectural” memories of this place that still show up in my dreams/etc.
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Haha awesome check out this drawing for a 1916 “luxury cliff dwelling” apartment complex in San Francisco. There’s a funicular in the middle!!
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Sometimes while I'm watching TV I'm also searching the streets of LA on google maps... collecting all the postmodern facades I can screengrab.
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Probably the most enigmatic building in LA County, Howard Hughes’ original 1960 Hughes Research Laboratory, perched in the hills above Malibu. The first lasers, atomic clocks, ion propulsion, even LED and LCD watches came out of this place…
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For the past few years I’ve been assembling addresses of LA modernist buildings/houses/etc on a google map so that when I’m in a neighborhood I can see what’s nearby. It’s very much a work in progress but at almost 1,400 locations I thought I might share:
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@Western_Trad
I actually don’t think anyone is surprised you don’t know what a hate crime is.
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This new small lot house in West Hollywood has a lit-up art wall thingy depicting dingbats!
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Median housing costs in the LA, DC, and Seattle CSAs are essentially the same. But in DC and SEA, median earnings for full-time workers are *~30%* higher.
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@mcmansionhell
I just keep thinking… do people in the dem establishment feel bad? Like do they feel any guilt about all of this?
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The many faces of Jean Nouvel’s Hotel de Ville Montpellier, 2011. The front (🤨):
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I’ve posted this before, but one of my favorite buildings by a Black LA architect is the 1976 Carson city hall by Robert Kennard.
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From what I can find, this is the densest building in LA on a lot smaller than 8,000 sf. Built in 1930, ~5 FAR, ~7,500 sf lot (pretty average size/shape for an SFR lot in LA). Kinda surprised I couldn’t find something taller/denser. Bigger buildings are all on larger lots.
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I know a lot of people might not be into it but I think this Patrick Tighe building from a few years ago is pretty much the best we can get right now in terms of basic non-TOD residential infill in LA.
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With the impending emblandening of Chicago’s Thompson Center atrium, it got me thinking about what LA’s great postmodern civic/public spaces are. First up is Charles Moore’s Beverly Hills Civic Center 1988-1990.
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Stopped by Schindler’s relatively obscure Binder and Gross apartments on Soto st in Boyle Heights from 1922. As far as I’m aware/concerned this is the first modernist apartment building built in LA (and maybe U.S.).From the same year as Schindler’s Kings Road house.
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How did I miss this! They greyed out a literal Michael Graves-designed hotel in San Diego in 2020.
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There’s a ton of really great streamline moderne buildings scattered all over LA, but there’s very few places where you can call it a concentration. Probably the most notable is just East of the Beverly Center.
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Every time I pass this building in Chinatown I wonder the history of it — It looks like an old southwest commercial building in El Paso or something. I looked it up and I’m pretty sure it’s the oldest still-in-use commercial building in LA. Built in 1880:
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Even though I live in Northeast LA, this will always be one of the most fascinating corners of Los Angeles to me. ~20 square miles of multiple jurisdictions seemingly haphazardly intertwined. An intersection of so many LA histories.
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The four smallest-lot houses* in LA County, all on lots under 600 sf. The first and smallest is the famous "skinny house" of Long Beach: 860 sf and 2br on a 500 sf lot. *as far as I can determine
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Now that I’ve spent some time cataloguing when DWP distribution centers were built (as best I can — so many don’t have any history online) here are some of my favorite 1960s stations. 65 (Tarzana, 1960), 66 (Brentwood, 1960), 57 (Valley Village, 1965), and 82 (Northridge, 1966)
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After revisiting/reigniting (w)rapper haterade today I’m recalling the moment that 2000’s techno-feat architecture died.
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@JakeAnbinder
Chinatown, Repo Man, Southland Tales, LA Story, LA LA Land, Blade Runner, Big Lebowski, LA Confidential, Demolition Man, Crash, Heat, Collateral, To Live & Die in LA, Boyz in the Hood, Mi Familia, 1941, Miracle Mile, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Drive, Nightcrawler, Her…
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New bldg I saw today in frogtown. Brickwork screen reminiscent of contemporary Iranian architecture (eg second, third, fourth photos via
@TehranYimby
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LA doesn’t have too many “Miami-style” deco-streamline buildings, but Long Beach has quite a few bc of the 1933 quake.
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Look at how deep this bungalow court near exposition park is. There’s no rear alley so if you live in the back building you have a considerable distance just to get to the street.
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@maxeschavez
Reader adding context they thought people might want to know: this is not, as the author claims, ‘inside the bean.’ This photo has been circulating on the internet since 2004 and in fact shows the back room of the Rock n Roll McDonalds.
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A map of SFR-zoned parcels in LA County that are: 1) within High Quality Transit Areas, 2) not within High Fire Severity Zones, and within Census Tracts that are 3) less than 33% LMI, and 4) the avg 2020 assessed SFR land value is higher than $153/sf ($1M for a 6500 sf lot).
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This morning I walked around Ricardo Bofill’s largest project with the French government, the Antigone district in Montpellier, which was built in pieces throughout the 80’s. While overall not imaginative in comparison to Espaces d’Abraxas, it still has some nice moments.
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To be clear there is plenty to be critical about with these (resource use, cost, etc) but most fancy wasteful apartment complexes don’t even look one quarter as cool as these.
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