Posts Tagged ‘Building’
Downtown L.A.’s Metropolitan apartment building faces foreclosure
A landmarked downtown Los Angeles apartment building designed by famed Los Angeles architect John Parkinson is on the market as its owners face foreclosure.Residences in the Metropolitan, a 10-story tower built in 1913, are nearly filled with ...
Zac Efron Is Building a $2.7 Million Off-Grid ‘Hemp House’ in Remote Australia
Actor Zac Efron has bid farewell to Hollywood's glossy megamansions in favor of returning to grassroots architecture in the form of a unique off-grid retreat made almost entirely of hemp that he is in the process of building on a remote plot of...
City Council revives COPA for nonprofit building deals
This story gives you a peek at the content coming to our new platform, TRD Policy Pro. Sign up to get early access here.Hey there, let’s get into today’s news at the intersection of policy and real estate: COPA is back from the dead, more o...
‘You’re a liar.’ Why the world’s biggest building boom has run into a wall in California
Bryan Marsh was booed by the crowd as he approached the podium in Monterey Park’s City Hall. Things weren’t going as planned.In front of a wall of people holding “No Data Center” placards, he outlined how his company, Australia’s HMC...
Jardinette Apartments, Neutra’s first Los Angeles building, reopens
One of the most painstaking architectural renewals in recent Los Angeles memory has finally pulled a world-class jewel of modern architecture from obscurity.Designed by pioneering Modernist architect Richard Neutra in 1928, with limited collab...
Imagine Living in the Chrysler Building
If you lived there, you’d be looking at home right now. Photo: Timothy A. Clark/AFP/Getty Images ...
Third-party reviewer speeds up building permit approval process in California
https://journal.firsttuesday.us/wp-content/uploads/Audio-LW_523.mp3Why this matters: Homebuilders now have the option to hire their own licensed engineers or architects to approve building plans when a local agency takes longer than 30 days t...
Orange County’s Ziggurat Building Headed Back to Market
The United States General Services Administration listed a unique-looking office building in Orange County for sale. The former Chet Holifield Federal Building in Laguna Niguel hit the market for an undisclosed price, L.A. Business First repor...
