KCRW's DnA: Design & Architecture
Summary: From your iPod to the Freedom Chair to the Walt Disney Concert Hall, design and architecture shape our world. On DnA: Design and Architecture host Frances Anderton talks to design world leaders about the latest in products fashion graphics architecture and more in Los Angeles and beyond.
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Podcasts:
Is the sky the limit for supersized structures? DnA explores the Panama Canal Expansion, mega-ships and the advent of the mile-high building.
Is the sky the limit for supersized structures? DnA explores the Panama Canal Expansion, mega-ships and the advent of the mile-high building.
Should Parker Center Be Saved?; Remembering Michael Graves
Google has jumped on the showpiece architecture bandwagon with a proposed new building in Mountain View. And a local designer gets a taste of cut-throat reality TV.
What happens when residential real estate is treated like a safe deposit box? DnA explores the urban impact of global investment in high end homes -- in London, New York and L.A.
A composer, a reporter and a preservationist give props to buildings in the Southland. Plus, Brad Dunning talks about the future of the desert backyard.
A composer, a reporter and a preservationist give props to buildings in the Southland. Plus, Brad Dunning talks about the future of the desert backyard.
Preservationists are dismayed that Ray Bradbury?s home has been torn down. But what will take its place? DnA talks to Thom Mayne and Blythe Alison-Mayne about their plans for the site. Plus, a look at transformations in Highland Park and Pasadena as suburban LA gets a retrofit.
Preservationists are dismayed that Ray Bradbury’s home has been torn down. But what will take its place? DnA talks to Thom Mayne and Blythe Alison-Mayne about their plans for the site. Plus, a look at transformations in Highland Park and Pasadena as suburban LA gets a retrofit.
DnA looks back at 2014 through the lens of tech, style and architecture.
Can you help the world as you shop? That?s the goal of social entrepreneurship. But how can you tell what companies are good from those that only sound good? DnA discusses ?living? Christmas trees, ?transparent? supply chains and gifts worth giving.
Thousands are descending on Miami Beach for Art Basel. LA art gallerists and critics talk about why the fair matters -- for good and bad. Plus, will Pershing Square get yet another redesign?
Thousands are descending on Miami Beach for Art Basel. LA art gallerists and critics talk about why the fair matters -- for good and bad. Plus, will Pershing Square get yet another redesign?
Millions listen to music as mp3s through little earbuds. Not Henry Rollins. He takes DnA on a wild sonic tour of his high fidelity sound systems. Can nature and huge buildings merge into a harmonious whole? Chinese architect Ma Yansong explains how they can.
Millions listen to music as mp3s through little earbuds. Not Henry Rollins. He takes DnA on a wild sonic tour of his high fidelity sound systems. Can nature and huge buildings merge into a harmonious whole? Chinese architect Ma Yansong explains how they can.
