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For 2015 Awards  #KFA2015Awards  #KFAis40 John C. Chase Creative Community Award West Hollywood Community Housing Corporation 375 La Cienega Blvd. WS Communities MGA Campus MGA North New Pershing Apartments Skid Row Housing Trust Ace Hotel Ace Hotels Janet L. Witkin Center Affordable Living for the Aging Broadwood Terrace Retirement Housing Foundation

SPECIAL TO THE MIRROR KFA (Killefer Flammang Architects) recently celebrated its 40th anniversary of design excellence at an outdoor party held in its parking lot at Olympic Blvd. and 17th St. in Santa Monica. Friends, family, clients, and other well-wishers were in abundance – as were the food trucks that catered the event. The firm […]

By Jason Islas – Santa Monica Next http://www.santamonicanext.org/2015/09/expo-adjacent-kaufmann-apartments-at-step-up-on-colorado-opens-in-downtown-santa-monica/ Downtown Santa Monica is one of the few places in the city where any new housing gets built, including affordable housing. The Kaufmann Apartments at Step Up on Colorado is the latest project to open in the city’s thriving Downtown. The new building, located less than a […]

How I Made It: Architect Breathes New Life into L.A.’s Historic Core Wade Killefer By Roger Vincent The gig: Wade Killefer, who has always liked building things, has become one of the go-to architects for developers who want to convert historic buildings in downtown Los Angeles to new uses such as housing or hotels. Among […]

Mayor’s Call for Housing At the Los Angeles Business Council’s 2014 Mayoral Housing, Transportation & Jobs Summit, Mayor Eric Garcetti challenged the City to build 100,000 new housing units and outlined new strategies to achieve this ambitious goal in an effort to address both population expansion and the increasing housing shortage. With LA County’s population […]

A Discussion with Stephen Burn, Project Manager, Los Angeles LGBT Center The Los Angeles LGBT Center is designing a new 183,700 SF campus to better meet the growing demand and need for the Center’s services. The campus will include 140 units of new housing for seniors and young adults, 100 beds for homeless youth, a […]

KFA principal John Arnold, AIA spoke to LA developer Jon Blanchard of BLVD Hospitality (the Ace Hotel and SoHo House) about trends in design and adaptive reuse, and the future of Downtown LA. What do you see trending in Downtown LA? Condos are definitely coming back. People really want to own a piece of Downtown. […]

In 1999, the City of Los Angeles passed the Adaptive Reuse Ordinance providing flexibility within some portions of the planning and building codes that had made it prohibitively expensive to rehabilitate older historic buildings. KFA designed the first projects to take advantage of the ordinance in the Old Bank District, transforming the San Fernando, Hellman […]