For more than a decade, Christopher Hawthorne has had his dream job: architecture critic at The Los Angeles Times. From his perch, he has explored the regions history and pondered the future of the urban landscape.
Date: Mar 13, 2018
Category: U.S.
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Apple's new 'spaceship' campus a fitting tribute to Steve Jobs's obsessions
But critics have criticized the aspirations of the complex. In 2013, Christopher Hawthorne of the Los Angeles Times wrote the campus "keeps itself aloof from the world around it to a degree that is unusual even in a part of California dominated by office parks. The proposed building is essentially o
Park disappears: The new George Lucas museum at Exposition Park underscores an ongoing and controversial shift in how that space is used. Its tipped the park once more from open space toward architecture, from protecting to building, writes Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne. Los Angel
Date: Jan 13, 2017
Category: U.S.
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Early Reactions To New SFMOMA Building Very Mixed, Include IKEA Comparison
The LA Times' Christopher Hawthorne says the new structure "doesn't merely extend but performs a smooth lobotomy on the museum's existing building." He calls it "handsome, carefully intelligent, self-effacing and agreeable," but he also seems to say that the museum probably should have just knocked
Date: Apr 29, 2016
Category: Entertainment
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Essential California: Piecing together the San Bernardino puzzle
nstead of letting the property it controls melt back into the private realm, the agency should work with Los Angeles County and the state of California to build a combination of new parks and affordable and market-rate housing in the 710 corridor," writes Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne
columnist Steve Lopez visits the Korean Resource Center in Koreatown, which has pushed up voting rates among Korean Americans. Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne looks at the citys most embarrassing civic-architecture and urban-planning failures, and advises the next mayor how to fix them.
Date: Mar 04, 2013
Category: U.S.
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LeBron James and Dwyane Wade strike a pose with Miami ballerinas
The Times' architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne likened the orbiter to a "Dodgers fan showing up in the top of the fourth inning" noticeably late and delayed by the unpredictability of surface streets.