Sam Lubell

Brooklyn, Los Angeles

Contributor at The New York Times

Editor-at-Large at Metropolis Magazine

Executive Editor, Metropolis Magazine

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This national landmark had to move because of a landslide. Inside what's next for Wayfarers chapel

2 days ago | latimes.com | Sam Lubell

A year ago, one of the Los Angeles region’s most beloved buildings was busy being dismantled, stone by stone, beam by beam. The Wayfarers Chapel, also informally known as the “tree chapel” or “glass church,” had since 1951 stood serenely on a lightly forested bluff in Rancho Palos Verdes, overlooking the waters of Abalone Cove.
Lessons in Global Design from Expo 2025 Osaka

3 weeks ago | metropolismag.com | Sam Lubell

At a time when optimism is in short supply and the virtual dominates real experience, the idea of convening for another World Expo seems…quaint. Yet Expo 2025 Osaka, which opened to the public on April 13 on a man-made island in Osaka Bay, is a reminder that the institution can still teach us. The event’s goal—like those of most Expos—is to gather the countries of the world to respond to our most urgent challenges.
3D printed houses? Shipping-container ADUs? In L.A.'s fire zones, new forms of construction take root

4 weeks ago | latimes.com | Sam Lubell

The fundamental way most homes are built in America — the labor-intensive process of constructing conventional wood framing on site — hasn’t changed much for more than a century, even though more industrial methods and technologies have long held the potential to be faster, cheaper or more reliable. In Sweden, for instance, 90% of single-family homes are prefabricated — entire buildings, or large portions, constructed in a factory for efficiency and then assembled quickly on site, said Ryan E.
A New Standard for Housing the Unhoused in Palm Springs

1 month ago | metropolismag.com | Sam Lubell

John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects (JFAK)’s Palm Springs Homeless Navigation Center, which opened at the end of last year, is one of a new generation of nurturing, multifunctional facilities transforming the way we think about housing the unhoused.
After the wildfires, this high school needed a campus. It found a Sears.

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Sam Lubell

For the foreseeable future, a school that burned during the fires in Los Angeles this year will call a retrofitted Sears home. Students and teachers at Palisades Charter High School have met online since a wildfire swept through Pacific Palisades in January and decimated their school building and many of their homes.
Seattle’s Vertical Convention Center Breaks the Mold

1 month ago | metropolismag.com | Sam Lubell

The LMN Architects–designed Summit Building reinvents the convention hall as a light-filled urban connector—and is one of few worldwide to achieve LEED Platinum certification. By: Sam LubellThe very earliest convention centers—exquisite, soaring amalgams of art and technology designed to showcase innovations in the most innovative way possible—were some of history’s great buildings, like the Crystal Palace in London (1851) and the Palais de l’Industrie in Paris (1855).
After the Wildfires, This High School Needed a Campus. It Found a Sears.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Sam Lubell

Palisades Charter High School in California has held classes online since the fire in January. On Tuesday, students gathered at a new, temporary home, a retrofitted Sears. The building is a local landmark - a 1947 design by the architect Rowland Crawford, with grooved ivory and green walls. A large blue Pali High sign now replaces what was a neon green Sears sign above the entrance.
This Arkansas Institute Brings a Holistic Vision to Health-Care Design

1 month ago | metropolismag.com | Sam Lubell

On a wooded rise just southeast of the sinuous Crystal Bridges Museum in Bentonville, Arkansas, a new 85,000-square-foot building is set to open in May: the Heartland Whole Health Institute. The vision of philanthropist Alice Walton (Walmart heir and founder of both Heartland and the Alice L.
U.S. Architecture Pavilion Draws Lessons From the American Porch

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Sam Lubell

The space, filling the pavilion's courtyard, will offer a layered, terrain-inspired platform of fir boards fronted by a folding timber canopy, beckoning visitors like "a new front door," as MacKeith put it. Providing shelter in the steamy Venice summer, it will be painted blue on its underside, like a traditional Southern porch. Seating will include stairs, benches and even a swinging chair.
SuperLA Disrupts the American Housing Model

2 months ago | metropolismag.com | Sam Lubell

Founded by Aaron van Schaik, the California homebuilding and development company creates efficient, sustainable housing. Let’s face it. Most American multifamily housing stinks. That mediocrity, according to Aaron van Schaik, founder of California homebuilding and development company SuperLA, can be traced to two key factors: the inefficiency and inhumanity of the traditional development process.

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