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KFA brought lots of holiday cheer at the end of 2017 to several families at the Zahn Memorial Center’s emergency shelter in Downtown Los Angeles. The Zahn Center hosts an annual holiday party where KFA brought gifts for the resident families.  The children at this emergency shelter received a large bag of presents and gift cards for each family, all collected from KFA and friends.

Our office is bustling with new faces and we are excited about opportunities to collaborate as we grow. We interviewed our newest freshman class and asked each of them to give us a brief introduction: Azadeh Sadrieh Azi’s interest in architectural design began in high school where she used to draw designs in the margins […]

Highly anticipated TOD will enhance community living with its spacious plaza, transportation hub, boutique hotel, residences, offices, dining & retail amenities. KFA  has announced that construction is about to begin on Ivy Station, a state-of-the-art transit-oriented development (TOD), that will surround the Culver City Station on Los Angeles’ Metro Expo Line. Located at the intersections of […]

Construction is about to begin on Ivy Station, a state-of-the-art transit-oriented development (TOD), brought to fruition by KFA, that will surround the Culver City Station on Los Angeles’ Metro Expo Line, located at the intersections of Venice, Washington and National Boulevards in Culver City. KFA Partner Jonathan Watts, AIA, who also serves as Chair of the Urban Land Institute’s Building Healthy Places Initiative, interviews Culver City’s Sol Blumenfeld to answer our questions about this unique project, developed by Lowe Enterprises in partnership with AECOM Capital, that has attracted interest nationwide.m

This is my personal love story with Los Angeles expressed through projects that I’ve worked on at KFA.   I am a native Angelino and was born in Boyle Heights. My teenage and college years were spent working in my parents’ Mexican fast food restaurant.  So, when Barbara and Wade asked me to work on […]

Partner In-Charge, Ivy Station   My passion for Architecture stems from growing up as the son of an architect in northern England. I would work in my father’s office making blue line prints, refilling ink pens, doing site surveys in the driving rain and visiting job-sites with my father. I loved then, and I still […]

In May 2017, AIA|LA held its inaugural, daylong Encompass conference that focused on problems and solutions concerning diversity, inclusion, and equity within the profession of architecture. KFA celebrates AIA|LA’s effort in creating the proper forum for continuing the vitally important conversation about diversity and inclusion. AIA Statement on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, 2017 The American […]

KFA employees frequently use public transportation, bike, walk, and carpool to and from our Santa Monica office, which is conveniently located one block from the 17th St. stop on the Metro Expo Line. We provide our commuters with a daily cash reward and reimburse Metro fares. Since the start of our program, sustainable transportation use […]

Late last year saw the groundbreaking for “24,” a 24-acre, mixed-use campus project in Chatsworth, CA. It was master-planned and designed by KFA to occupy the site of a former Los Angeles Times printing plant, shuttered since 1983. The developer, Uncommon, represents the next generation of two distinguished families of the Southern California commercial real […]

KFA collaborated with developer Uncommon and MGA Entertainment to develop a master plan for “24,” the Valley’s first live-work-play community, on the under-utilized 24-acre site of a former Los Angeles Times printing facility in Chatsworth, CA. KFA sat down with Jason Larian and Ryan Hekmat, the co-managing directors of Uncommon, to discuss the concept and […]

2016 “Firm of the Year” Recognizes the Talent & Contributions of Licensed Architects Team KFA has announced several promotions of its licensed architects. Founded in 1975 and based in Santa Monica, CA, the multiple-award-winning firm attracts innovative and talented design professionals, and nurtures their professional advancement. A large percentage of KFA employees have been there […]