SMart (Santa Monica Architects for a Responsible Tomorrow) Last week's column was Part 1. If you did not have the opportunity to read Part 1 then, you can find it here. Part 2 The city’s planning study will not be just the design of 227 SMO acres as an extension of the existing Clover Par
SMart (Santa Monica Architects for a Responsible Tomorrow) The volume of discussion around the options for Santa Monica Airport (SMO) continues to increase, as does the amount of misdirection by those that seek to close the facility. When persuasion requires misdirection, there is usually somet
Six years go we discussed, in these pages, the city’s then-renewed earthquake-retrofit rules. At the time we argued that the anticipated volume of building permit applications would create a serious challenge for the city’s staff. In view of the recent earthquakes in Turkey and Syria and the tremors