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From: "Architexturez." <interface.services@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 11:57:41 +0530
Homeless housing: Creative solutions
Skid Row Housing Trust and Michael Maltzan's firm have brought a measure
of optimism to the relationship between architecture and the city's
homeless problem.
By Christopher Hawthorne, Times Staff Writer
At any given time, the easiest way to tell which projects are getting
the most attention inside the Silver Lake offices of Michael Maltzan
Architecture is to look at the top of a long, low bookcase that bisects
the main workspace like the hands of a clock striking 6. Piled high with
designs in progress, it offers a glimpse of the firm's collective mind
at work.
One afternoon last week, it was covered with plans and cardboard models
of the New Carver Apartments, a drum-shaped, six-story building that
will be constructed over the next year and a half in downtown L.A.
Carver, which will hold 100 efficiency apartments on a site in the
shadow of the 10 Freeway, a few blocks southeast of the L.A. Convention
Center, is the second project Maltzan has designed for the Skid Row
Housing Trust. The first was the Rainbow Apartments, an 89-unit building
that opened in November on San Pedro Street, in skid row.
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http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-maltzan6mar06,0,5655997.story?coll=cl-nav-arts