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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: Veronica Castro, AIA is a Puerto Rican architect who moved to L.A. after earning her Bachelor of Architecture from Syracuse […]

New Partner Jonathan Watts Joins Longtime KFA Principals John Arnold and Lise Bornstein Santa Monica, CA — KFA (Killefer Flammang Architects), Los Angeles’ full-service, award-winning architecture firm, has announced three new partners. Joining founders Wade Killefer and Barbara Flammang as partners are John Arnold, AIA, Lise Bornstein, AIA and Jonathan Watts, AIA. Arnold and Bornstein are […]

1. How does the 201 Lexington Campus project play a part in reshaping/reimagining L.A.? New urban infill mixed-use apartment buildings like 201 Lexington play a critical role in bringing housing to job centers with a residual effect of reducing peak-hour automobile traffic and commuting times. Many residents that live in new housing in the heart […]

KFA moderated an important affordable housing discussion panel at the 2015 SCANPH Conference held at the JW Marriott hotel in Downtown Los Angeles last month.  As an expert in adaptive reuse design, KFA Principal, John Arnold, AIA, lead the focused conversation on the topic of the conversion of underused commercial buildings into affordable housing projects. […]

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 […]