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Hospitality is booming in Los Angeles, and KFA is doing its part to plan, design, permit, and build significant hotel and restaurant projects around the city. Hotels are the glamorous, interior design-intensive cousins of typical multifamily projects, but at their core the two building types have similar elements with life-safety concerns, accessibility, permitting and meeting […]

Two dozen KFAers took the streets of downtown LA on a balmy Friday night in November to enjoy the fruits of their labor with a carefully curated crawl of the bars and restaurants located in KFA-designed adaptive reuse projects. With cars left behind (most attendees took the Metro to get downtown), the group spent the […]

KFA is currently working with the New York-based Sydell Group to develop their next boutique hotel in downtown Los Angeles. The project at the historic Commercial Exchange Building at 8th and Olive will be part of the group’s upscale hostel/hotel chain, called Freehand LA, that caters to group, international, and youth travelers. With Sydell being […]

Modern learning is dynamic! Teachers and students require learning spaces that go beyond the classrooms of the past.  Andrey Aristov, Assistant Principal for Curriculum and Scheduling at Loyola High School in Los Angeles, and Rita McBride, Head of School at Mayfield Senior School of the Holy Child Jesus in Pasadena, discuss the importance of learning space […]

One of KFA’s architects, Shu-Chi, was recently accepted to the EMBA program at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. For the past eight years, Shu-Chi has been an integral part of the design and management for many projects at KFA.  She also provides developers with vital information and analysis in order for them to achieve the […]

During the summer months, it may seem like a ghost town at Loyola High School near downtown Los Angeles and Mayfield Senior School in Pasadena. But for Connie Peters and Michael McDermott, summer is actually one of the busiest (and most productive) times of year.  With the start of school fast approaching, Connie and Michael orchestrate campus […]

Check out the latest on this project featuring KFA’s Allison Massett and Dganit Shtorch, AIA. Click on the video below.

The KFA Team’s site visit to the recently completed M Lofts in the Palms District on Motor Ave. featuring Laura Highcove, AIA.

Check out the latest on the Janet L. Witkin Center project in West Hollywood featuring KFA’s Kenneth Koslow, AIA. Click on the video below.

Check out the latest on the New Pershing Apartments project featuring KFA’s Bob Timmerman, AIA and Corey Mollet, AIA.

For over a decade, KFA has been at the forefront of adaptive reuse architecture in the Los Angeles region.  Recent real estate and economic trends have caused a remarkable surge in the development of adaptive reuse of buildings in Downtown Los Angeles and throughout the rest of the City. This is partially due to real […]