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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]