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By Ariel Wesler, Spectrum 1November 4, 2022

By Lise Bornstein • December 27, 2020 • Letter to the Editor, Urbanism, West The Architect’s Newspaper https://www.archpaper.com/2020/12/op-ed-how-density-can-be-the-hero-in-la/ As I write this from my little apartment in Los Angeles, a city that is under another stay-at-home order, I can’t help but think about the 66,436 people who can’t comply because they don’t have permanent, stable […]

KFA Architecture has hitched its wagon to Los Angeles’s star for more than 40 years. MULTIFAMILY HOUSING | OCTOBER 15, 2020 | PAT CURRY, CONTRIBUTING EDITOR The year was 2010, the economy was just starting to recover from the Great Recession, and Killefer Flammang Architects, better known as KFA, decided it was time for a […]

Urbanize.LA by Steven Sharp May 12, 2020 APPA Real Estate has broken ground on a mixed-use housing development in unincorporated East Pasadena, the company announced this week. The project – a joint venture with Sundance Bay and Geolo Capital – will rise from a .75-acre property at 3768 E. Colorado Boulevard.  Plans call for a five-story […]

Urbanize.LA By Stephen Sharp April 13, 2020 The wood-and-concrete frame of a new supportive housing complex is coming together just west of Metro’s PCH Station in Midtown Long Beach. The project, called Vistas del Puerto, is being developed by Clifford Beers Housing.  The five-story structure at 1836-1852 Locust Avenue will feature 48 apartments and supportive services, catering […]

by Malle Pingel Washington Post Magazine March 30, 2020 It was nearly 30 years ago that the Americans With Disabilities Act established its accessibility guidelines to protect the rights of people with disabilities. Accessible design has grown up a lot since then. Those standard design requirements for public, commercial and government facilities were a critical […]

Urbanize.LA By Steven Sharp March 23, 2020 The second and final phase of the PATH Metro Villas supportive housing complex continues to take shape in Rampart Village. The project, located just north of Beverly Boulevard between Madison and Westmoreland Avenues, consists of three six-story buildings attached to an existing facility operated by PATH.  The current construction will […]

(Santa Monica, CA – September 27, 2018) Construction has started on the 52,463-square-foot Coronel Apartments that will provide 54 units of much-needed affordable housing in Hollywood. A project of Hollywood Community Housing Corporation (HCHC), the four-story building has two street frontages, one at 1601 North Hobart Blvd and the other at 1600 N. Serrano Ave […]

Design Voice Podcast by Catherine Meng, AIA, March 12, 2020 LISTEN TO THE PODCAST: As a founding partner of KFA, Barbara Flammang, FAIA, has overseen the design and construction of housing and community projects for nearly 40 years, from the adaptive reuse of historic buildings in downtown Los Angeles to the recently completed Los Angeles […]