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Bob Holloway, former Captain at LAFD and currently enjoying “retirement” as a fire-life safety consultant, has been at the forefront of the Adaptive Reuse movement since the beginning. During its development and through the first ten years of its implementation, Bob was always the voice of practicality and reason, thinking out of the box to […]

Why did you choose to live in an Adaptive Reuse building/complex? Tarrah: Being from Boston, I crave density and love historic buildings.  When I moved to Los Angeles, I was intrigued by all of the loft conversions that were happening in Downtown Los Angeles. It was only natural for me, a city girl at heart, […]

KFA projects took home four Merit Awards and one Grand Award from the 2014 Pacific Coast Builders Conference Gold Nugget Awards. Congratulations to WS Communities for Lincoln / Broadway, Merit Award winner in the “Best Mixed Use Project” category.  Merit Awards in the “Best Affordable Project – 60 Du/Acre or More” category were given to […]

Phase 2 of the Expo Line will be open by 2016, and with over 16 completed and under construction projects on the Expo Line, KFA is shaping the communities that will use it. Who resides in these neighborhoods, and what does KFA see for Santa Monica and Los Angeles at large? Diverse and multi-faceted is […]

In 1996 KFA converted the 1929 Sheraton Townhouse, the glamorous hotel where Nicky Hilton married Elizabeth Taylor, for use as low-income housing. Included in that assignment was the design of multi-family housing on the grounds where guests gamboled on the tennis courts and in the pools. 18 years later we are revisiting the site for […]

As the downtown renaissance has expanded down Wilshire Boulevard to Koreatown, Dr. David Lee has seen promise in the development of residential property in this very dense neighborhood of Los Angeles.  Wade sat down with Dr. Lee to better understand the community and his projects within Koreatown. Why are you bullish on Koreatown? Koreatown is […]

The mother ship is bustling with new faces and we are excited for new opportunities to collaborate as we grow.  We interviewed our newest freshman class between initiation rituals and asked them to give us a tweet-sized introduction: Karen Filippe started building furniture during her undergrad in graphic design at LMU. That led her to working […]

Pictured (clockwise from top left) are: New Genesis, Palace Hotel, Hayworth House, Villas at Gower, Linda Vista, and NoHo Senior Villas For Affordable Housing/ While market rate projects are susceptible to the ups and downs of our economy, affordable housing has always benefitted from the consistency of available redevelopment funds and housing tax credits. With the demise of the CRA, we anticipated […]

KFA’s Monica Rodriguez has been helping kids through mentor opportunities. We asked Monica a few questions about her experience working with the SPARK mentoring program. How did you get started as a Spark mentor? While I was in college at USC, I tutored a friend’s daughter in high school algebra. Since then, helping kids and […]

KFA is pleased to be working with MGA Entertainment on their new 24 acre corporate campus in Chatsworth. The new MGA headquarters building, a former LA Times printing facility, will be surrounded by 4 buildings containing 700 units, retail and parking. Key to the design is the connective tissue, which ties the campus together. Various […]

138The Sepulveda Basin Field House project has been recently honored by the AIA San Fernando Valley, receiving a Design Citation from the organization. A collaborative effort with Landscape Architect Land Images, Efficient Consulting Engineers, CS Legacy Construction, and the City of Los Angeles, the Sepulveda Basin Sports Complex is a 65-acre park laid out along two […]

Interviewing Zondre at her home in the Valley was an inspiration. The journey she shared with us was riveting in the details of her becoming homeless, helping herself out of homelessness, and moving into a peaceful community at the NoHo Senior Villas, designed by KFA. Zondre has a gregarious, direct personality, a gift she gives […]