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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 […]

KFA’s Tarrah Beebe, AIA, participating in an important panel discussion about the current and future building trends in Downtown Los Angeles. The discussion was presented by the Association for Women in Architecture + Design during the 2015 Dwell Conference. ‬ ‪#‎DODLA‬‪#‎womenarchitects‬ ‪#‎cityliving‬. ‪#‎design‬ ‪#‎urbandevelopment‬‪#‎mixedusedevelopment‬‪#‎transitorienteddesign‬ ‪#‎urbanplanning‬ ‪#‎designers‬ ‪#‎landscapes‬ ‪#‎architecture‬ #‎DODLA2015‬

THE TRANSFIGURATION Immanuel Church in Long Beach turned into affordable housing. Beyond the political rhetoric and the well-intentioned workshops calling for more affordable housing persist the difficult challenges of actually trying to get it built.  Earnest as its advocates may be, the shortage aggravated by an overheated private market is getting worse, particularly in Los […]

For New People and New Projects  Spring has blossomed at KFA and we welcome with pleasure 9 additional staff who are helping to hatch several new and re-energized projects. Moving forward in Santa Monica is Pico Eleven, a 32-unit 4-story apartment building developed by Pico Eleven LLP, and the only housing project to be approved by the […]

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 them to give us a brief introduction: Ashkan Afshari is an architect with diverse experience including educational, hospitality, residential, and mixed-use projects.  His goal is to combine sustainability, culture, […]

The complexities of re imagining older buildings into new spaces become even more layered with designated historic structures. Architects must coordinate not just with clients, consultants, and artisans, but public agencies empowered to protect a classic building’s character. Killefer Flammang Architects(KFA) has performed this role in multiple Los Angeles historic and cultural monuments, including the Ace […]