New Carver Apartments / Michael Maltzan Architecture

New Carver Apartments is a yellow and white spiraling 97 unit apartment complex, the building was constructed for the formerly homeless and is the first in a string of projects.

Architects: Michael Maltzan Architecture
Location: Los Angeles, California, USA
Photographs: Iwan Baan

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From the architects:

The project aims to construct not only a new optimism for public housing in Los Angeles, but to form an armature for change through architecture.

Nearly a mile from the heart of Skid Row, the project’s 97 units provide permanent housing for formerly homeless elderly and disabled residents, a place for solace, support, and individual growth in the face of the city’s chronic homeless problem……

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