Photo Credit: Paul Vu / Here and Now Agency ARCH TOUR FEST: New Malibu Public High School Sustainability & Net-Zero: Achieves net-zero energy with extensive solar, a high-performance envelope, and passive ventilation. It also includes water conservation and two acres of habitat restoration. Resiliency & Fire Safety: Designed to be highly fire-resilient, using non-combustible materials, […]

Photo Credit: Karl Tso, Geoffrey von Oeyen ARCH TOUR FEST: Horizon House 2 Horizon House 2 explores Robin Evans’s idea of Mies’s paradoxical symmetries, using mirrored views—horizontally and vertically across the horizon—to register the architecture within its natural context. Oblique views of ocean and sky are framed by low-e multi-slide doors and large, strategically placed […]

Photo Credit: Eric Staudenmaier ARCH TOUR FEST: Highway House Highway House is a Woolsey Fire Rebuild project. The steep Santa Monica Mountains serve as both the formal inspiration and the immediate context for this new home. In the design, sharply angled shed roofs follow the site’s topography while contrasting with the natural hillsides of this […]

ARCH TOUR FEST: La Cienega 23 This 5-story, 23-unit housing project in West Hollywood draws inspiration from the city’s commitment to promote thoughtful design through courtyard housing and community-driven city development. Located on N. La Cienega Blvd. near Sunset Blvd., La Cienega 23 judiciously reduces its allowable building envelope in order to maximize open space […]