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Urban Garden

Location
Downtown Los Angeles, CA
Project Date
2017
Tags
#landscape|#urbanism

A thesis project addressing the most overlooked territory in the American city: the . Rather than erase the void, the proposal holds it. Reflective walls ring the lot, mirroring the sky back into the block, and a garden is planted at its center. The result is a public room defined less by its architecture than by what it borrows: the passing clouds, the shifting light, the sounds of the street softened by foliage. A quiet argument that downtown densification does not require more building. Sometimes it requires careful subtraction, and a place to stand still.

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William W. Anderson III

California-licensed architect serving Ventura, Santa Barbara, and Los Angeles. Residential and urban design rooted in restraint, climate, and place.

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