{"id":109893,"date":"2025-12-26T21:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T21:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/109893\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T21:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T21:12:07","slug":"its-nice-to-see-year-end-appreciation-for-architectural-standouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/109893\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s nice to see year-end appreciation for architectural standouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  Dec. 26, 2025 7 AM PT  <\/p>\n<p>To the editor: I read with appreciation Sam Lubell\u2019s roundup of the year\u2019s architecture standouts (<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/list\/best-los-angeles-architecture-projects-2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201c7 best L.A. architecture projects of 2025,\u201d<\/a> Dec. 19). Every year, I lament that architecture is not included in the year-end artistic and cultural superlatives lists. This selection is powerful precisely because it focuses on the types of projects that most architects quietly work on.<\/p>\n<p>The new designs and renovations of schools, airports and office buildings \u2014 as well as housing, retail and healthcare \u2014 affect every person in the area. Because it is all so naturally around us, architecture is sometimes taken for granted, as are the ingenious practitioners who make our cities and buildings safe, enjoyable and beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>Julie Taylor, Los Angeles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec. 26, 2025 7 AM PT To the editor: I read with appreciation Sam Lubell\u2019s roundup of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[4700,58978,58977,2072,1011,48,52,51,47,50,49,63,58980,17459,1506,14808,1969,58981,4265,72,58979],"class_list":["post-109893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-airport","tag-architectural-standout","tag-architecture-standout","tag-editor","tag-housing","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-new-design","tag-office-building","tag-project","tag-renovation","tag-retail","tag-roundup","tag-school","tag-year","tag-year-end-appreciation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}