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
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……