Greg Goldin

Illustration courtesy Urban PartnersDan Rosenfeld, of Urban Partners, is one of the city’s leading developers. His firm spearheaded the Caltrans District 7 Headquarters, at First and Main, in downtown, and he is building the urban village that will spring up above and around the Wilshire-Vermont Red Line subway station late......

Photo by Ted SoquiLast Sunday night, ex-Governor Gray Davis and a few of his former appointees filled out the crowd for the screening of a new documentary, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room. The story of greed run amok and ruthlessness amply rewarded, Enron has the goods on how......

Photo by Ted SoquiIn keeping with the timeworn Roman maxim “De mortuis nil nisi bonum” (“Of the dead speak nothing but good”), the obituaries of Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., who died on Tuesday of an inoperable brain tumor, read something like variations on the script issued by his family: The......

The announcement on Monday that the Pritzker Architecture Prize went to Santa Monica architect Thom Mayne ought to stir things up downtown, where several big, slick, unimaginative projects are under way. Mayne is an unabashed radical, a founder of the eternally cutting-edge SCI-Arc and a designer of domineering, difficult forms......

The CIA’s World Factbook. Want to know how many cell phones there are on the South Seas island nation of Vanuatu, population 202,609 (not including the marooned cast and crew of Survivor)? Can’t remember which equatorial African nation El Hadj Omar Bongo rules with an iron fist? Don’t have a......

Is Frank Gehry’s spectacular Disney Hall too spectacular? An official report released the day before Thanksgiving, examining the glare and heat that bounce off the undulating steel exterior, says yes. The report, authored by USC architecture professor Marc E. Schiler and commissioned by the county Board of Supervisors, which owns......

In this year’s tight presidential election, 537 votes in, yes, Florida, once again may tip the election. As the specter of a Sunshine State rerun (and re-count) shapes up, Parsons School of Design, in New York, offers an exhibition, The Voting Booth Project, made up of 50 authentic voting booths......

Illustration by Winston Smith When the country is confused and in chaos, loyal ministers appear. —Lao Tzu In Desert Solitaire, Edward Abbey, outlaw and patriot, advises the reader of his sublime elegy for the Arches National Monument, in Utah, not to “jump into your automobile next June and rush out......

Photos by Debra DiPaolo When John Mauceri steps onto the podium for this season’s Hollywood Bowl opening gala on June 25, the crowd settling into Myron Hunt’s curving, climbing amphitheater will be struck by a visual enigma. Though everyone will surely know that the glistening white band shell is new......