The Prospect – The New York Times

5 New Standout Hotels in Los Angeles From chic bed-and-breakfasts to sprawling modern luxuries, these hotels are notable bright spots in a city filled with stars.Video
Las Palmas – Architectural Digest

A bathroom to change it ALL What if we just focus on the bathrooms? Could I change the whole house? That’s what this couple looked for when they turned to the Life.Style studio. Result: four bathrooms, four styles, total renovation! Sometimes none, forgotten and delayed in our reforms, in the bathroom lies part of the […]
1+3=1House | Architectural Record

How do you triple the size of a house when it sits on a small lot in Venice, California? Young Los Angeles architects Steffen Leisner, Ali Jeevanjee, and Phillip Trigas faced this challenge when they collaborated on expanding a house for a couple living in a 970-square-foot, avocado-colored Venice bungalow with shingled siding and a […]
624 California, Venice – Architect News

Gentrification can occasionally foster good design rather than vulgar excess. As the humble cottages on narrow lots in Venice rise past the $1 million mark, the challenge for architects is to satisfy the expectations of new buyers without destroying the character of the community. Inevitably, some developers have maxed out their sites with dumb boxes, […]
LA Architech Magazine | 1+3=HO– USE

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1+3=1 House – L.A. Architect Mag.

Maximizing building square footage while keeping the existing bungalow was the principal programmatic objective for this project thus a “subtractive design” strategy was produced. A series of strategic volumetric operations was applied to realize the client’s needs and architectural goals.
An asymmetrical collage named 1 + 3 = 1 House

How do you triple the size of a house when it sits on a small lot in Venice, California? Young Los Angeles architects Steffen Leisner, Ali Jeevanjee, and Phillip Trigas faced this challenge when they collaborated on expanding a house for a couple living in a
624 California, Venice – Architect Mag.

Home of the year. A special presentation of Architect Magazine’s award for residence architecture.