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Home » Authors » Russell Fortmeyer

Russell Fortmeyer

Russell Fortmeyer is a sustainability consultant and former RECORD editor who lives in Los Angeles.
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MAWD Brings Hospitality Flourishes to a California Tech Company’s New Headquarters

Russell Fortmeyer
August 19, 2024
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Spread across multiple floors of an existing Los Angeles area office tower, the project includes a soccer pitch in the basement and a spacious penthouse terrace with mountain views.


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SuperBungalows, a New Cross-Laminated Timber Apartment Building, is a Los Angeles First

Russell Fortmeyer
May 23, 2024
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Start-up SuperLA seeks to raise the quality of rental housing in the city while finding ways to streamline its infamously cumbersome development process.


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Albert Frey’s Aluminaire House Lands in Palm Springs

Russell Fortmeyer
April 15, 2024
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The permanent installation of the experimental 1931 residence on the grounds of the Palm Springs Art Museum coincides with a retrospective exhibition on its designer.
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Architects at work

The Imperative of Ending Coerced Student Labor

A reckoning with faculty misconduct at SCI-Arc shows the need for deeper change in the industry
Russell Fortmeyer
May 13, 2022
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A SCI-Arc faculty member on how the school's reckoning with misconduct should prompt architects everywhere to end longstanding abusive practices.


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Rainier Square.

Rainier Square by NBBJ

Seattle
Russell Fortmeyer
May 1, 2021
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In Seattle, NBBJ designs a mixed-use skyscraper that bows to its midcentury neighbors.
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Modern Architecture and Climate

Review of 'Modern Architecture and Climate: Design Before Air Conditioning'

By Daniel A. Barber
Russell Fortmeyer
October 8, 2020
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Architecture’s past could be a key to a more climate-friendly future, which is the case the architectural historian Daniel A. Barber makes in his new book.
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Climate Summit Highlights Commitment to Global Warming

Climate Summit Highlights States’ Commitment to Combating Global Warming

Russell Fortmeyer
September 20, 2018
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Washington may be silent, but the country remains committed to climate action: A recap of last week’s Global Climate Action Summit.


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Pushing Prefabrication

Continuing Education: Pushing Prefabrication

Russell Fortmeyer
September 1, 2016
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From entire buildings to discrete components, the use of off-site construction is expanding across multiple building types.
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One Santa Fe, Los Angeles

One Santa Fe

Trainspotting: An enormous mixed-use building energizes a site along a major rail artery, contributing to an urban transformation.
Russell Fortmeyer
October 16, 2015
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The revitalization of Downtown Los Angeles remains a work in progress, with the area still a patchwork of commercial and residential towers, government and cultural facilities, light manufacturing, and parking lots. Lately, its momentum has turned to its eastern fringe, a once-industrial area now dubbed the Arts District. 


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Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center

Transportation Bubble: HOK's Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center (ARTIC) launches the automobile-centric Southern California city into a new age of public transportation.
Russell Fortmeyer
March 16, 2015
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HOK's Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center (ARTIC) launches the automobile-centric Southern California city into a new age of public transporation. When the City of Anaheim launched a design competition in 2009 for a new transit hub, city leaders wanted an iconic structure.


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