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Design and Architecture

Gay Spaces, FAB Park, LACMA Redesign, Ecocapsule

Hosted by Frances Anderton Jun. 14, 2016
Gay bars and nightclubs have long served as sanctuaries for LGBT people. But many of these venues are disappearing. Mia Lehrer + Associates has been picked to design FAB Park in downtown. Why was the latest redesign for LACMA unveiled at the Venice Architecture Biennale? And a tiny "ecocapsule" made in Slovakia is catnip to Californians.

Photo: Inside the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. (courtesy of Pulse)

From this Episode:

Gay Clubs

On June 12, the deadliest mass shooting in US history took place at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Gay bars and nightclubs have long served as sanctuaries for...

8 min

FAB Park

The long-vacant, fenced-off lot at First Street and Broadway in downtown Los Angeles will soon be developed into a two-acre public park, next door to Grand Park. Mia Lehrer...

7 min

LACMA's Redesign in Venice

The 2016 Architecture Biennale is underway in Venice, Italy, and its director, Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena, has focused the exhibition, "Reporting from the Front,"...

7 min

Ecocapsule

Earlier this year, many design blogs published a very cool photo of a white, egg-shaped capsule perched on the edge of a misty cliff. It was described as an "ecocapsule" for...

6 min

Credits

Host:

Frances Anderton

Producers:

Frances Anderton, Avishay Artsy

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