Facades+ Los Angeles 2025: Embodied Carbon, Collaboration, and Googie Revival

Key facts

• Facades+ Los Angeles takes place on November 5 and 6 at the Sheraton Grand Los Angeles.
• The symposium themes are embodied carbon and collaboration, with roundtables moderated by SOM.
• Lucas Epp, vice president and founder of StructureCraft, delivers a keynote on reconnecting design and construction.
• Rita Kampalath, chief sustainability officer for the County of Los Angeles, opens with a civic perspective on building performance standards.
• The Raising Cane’s West Coast Flagship at Hollywood Park in Inglewood is designed by Donaldson+Partners Architecture with a 106-by-108-foot oval halo engineered by Walter P Moore.
• SOM presents the David Geffen Galleries at LACMA and the UCSB San Benito student housing project, slated to house 2,200 students by Fall 2027.
• The Hollywood Burbank Airport spotlight covers a 355,000-square-foot terminal with a swooping canopy and perforated metal panels inspired by Marilyn Monroe’s “Happy Birthday” dress.
• The Methods + Materials Gallery features 48 exhibiting building product companies, and free symposium admission is offered in limited quantities to architects, engineers, contractors, and facade consultants.