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Oceanwide Plaza: Graffiti 'vandalism' or the greatest tag 'takeover' of all time?

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The New York Times has entered the debate surrounding LA's troubled Oceanwide Plaza development this week after social media and the outside press tied its celebrity status to the neglect of downtowns, housing rights issues, and their relationship to developer capitalism.

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RIBA announces 'once-in-a-generation' House of Architecture investment plan with new $107 million price tag

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The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has provided an outline to overhaul its 66 Portland Place London headquarters into a “once-in-a-generation” home of the new House of Architecture initiative. For a reported cost of £85 million ($107.4 million ($74.3 million USD) in outturn costs.

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TAG 4.2 versus TAG 4.2?

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that would fill in its empty spaces with classical apartment houses, and turn the Mall itself into a waterway. How TAG’s masterplanner, Nir Buras, managed to withhold mentioning his equally lovely plan for the Anacostia River embankments south of the U.S. Alas, it may be a pipe dream. I grew up in D.C. At session one on Thursday.

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LA City Council orders graffiti removal on infamous unfinished Oceanwide Plaza towers

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City Council Members in Los Angeles have issued a mandate to owners of the graffiti-tagged Oceanview Plaza development in Downtown to remove the artwork weeks after its unfinished exterior became a national news item and the latest flash point in a debate over the citywide housing crisis that has lingered for a number of years.

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Marcel Breuer's Grieco House hits the market for $1.5 million

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Named for its original owners, “The Grieco House” offers three bedrooms and three bathrooms in 3,721 square feet on 1.07 The Janovitz + Tse Team of ModernMass at Compass is handling the listing at 81 Sunset Rock Road, which will come with a $1,500,000 price tag.

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Richard Neutra’s Taylor House Is Now Available to Rent—for a Whopping $10K Per Month

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Dating back to 1961, the refreshed dwelling is an architectural jewel box, with a price tag to match. In the architectural enclave of Whiting Woods, the aptly named Taylor House has undergone a meticulous three-year restoration and preservation that would delight any midcentury purist.

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Kanye West lists gutted Tadao Ando home for $53 million in Malibu

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Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning Tadao Ando, the house features a concrete exterior in keeping with the acclaimed architect’s streamlined brutalist ethos. Now, instead of renovating the four-bedroom beachfront house on Malibu Road, Ye has decided to sell it, with a price tag of $53 million (he’s listing it at a loss).

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