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You Can’t Eat The Sunshine – The Esotouric podcast Join us this week as we talk with architect Wade Killefer, partner at Killifer Flammang, about the firm’s recent renovation of the 19th century Pershing Hotel at the corner of 5th and Main. We’ll also visit with Donald Spivack, former Deputy Chief of Policy and Operations […]

Successful Design Strategies for Affordable Housing The affordable housing crisis is intensifying. It has increased pressure on architects to produce designs acceptable both to developers and to the communities where affordable housing may appear. Killefer Flammang Architects, based in Santa Monica, has designed over 3,500 units of affordable housing in Southern California including the New Pershing Apartments […]

As technology continues to develop and the modern workplace is reimagined around changing work needs, “creative office” has become quite the buzzword throughout Los Angeles.  Creative office enclaves have surfaced from Downtown LA to Pasadena, and from Hollywood to Silicon Beach as many creative professionals gravitate to a workplace that reflects their culture and lifestyle.  […]

The Historic Taft Building Unveils Major Reno By Kelsi Maree Borland| Los Angeles Tarrah Beebe: “Buildings such as The Taft are precious monuments. In many ways they could never be built today.” LOS ANGELES—DLJ Real Estate Capital Partners has unveiled the renovation of the historic Taft Building in Hollywood. The renovation re positions the landmark property as a premier creative […]

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 […]