Sam Lubell

5 days 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.

2 weeks 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.

3 weeks 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.

3 weeks 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).

3 weeks 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.