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The Lucas Museum Turns an Asphalt Lot Into a Civic Landscape

In Los Angeles, Ma Yansong’s museum and Mia Lehrer’s park replace a field of asphalt with a new public landscape for visual storytelling.

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Documented work featured in The Lucas Museum Turns an Asphalt Lot Into a Civic LandscapeLucas Museum of Narrative Art, Los Angeles · MAD with Stantec and Studio-MLA · Photograph by Hufton+Crow
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730 Stanyan Makes Affordable Housing Hold the Corner

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Melissa Shelton Builds Hospitality From Houses With Memory

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Issue 03 · September 2026

The September Season

Twenty-three stories across ten fields: new openings, September previews and anniversaries that put design in perspective.

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New rooms, landscapes and cultural destinations examined through the moves that make them specific.

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The July Edit

Early entries in the archive: projects where material, authorship and place refuse an easy reading.

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