Hosted by Sam Pepper · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 33 episodes
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A podcast about the buildings and projects shaping Los Angeles, featuring the key individuals driving them forward. Each episode of Building LA features a leading figure in the Los Angeles design, real estate and business sectors. We engage in discussion about the pivotal choices that propelled their professional journey, the driving forces that sustain their motivation, and the untold narratives underlying their most remarkable projects. Subscribe to be inspired by leaders within the real estate industry, learn about the projects impacting Los Angeles, and listen to the insider perspectives on how these projects came to be.
Sam Pepper hosts Building LA, a business show with 33 episodes published.
Randall Winston is the Deputy Mayor of Infrastructure for the City of Los Angeles. His portfolio covers everything in the public right of way, including street services, engineering, street lighting, sanitation, and tran
Alan Pullman founded Studio One Eleven 25 years ago with a theory that ran against how most architecture firms operated: that the most important work in urban environments was not designing the next signature building, b
Leon Rost is a Partner at Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), the firm behind some of the most talked-about projects in architecture today. He leads BIG's Los Angeles office, which opened three years ago in a 1928 Paul Williams b
In Los Angeles, the ground floor is often where the identity of a neighborhood is established. In this episode, I sit down with Giancarlo Pagani, founder of Pagani Hospitality and Managing Partner of Mother Wolf Group, t
Few architects ever achieve name recognition among the general public; fewer still become local heroes in northern English cities. Dan Meis, Managing/Design Partner at MEIS+ and SVP, Director of Global Sports Design at A
For most real estate professionals, using AI might look like asking ChatGPT to tidy up grammar on an email, but that’s just scratching the surface of what’s possible. Jake Heller, co-founder of AI for CRE Collective , ar
Downtown LA generates 30% of the city's business, parking, and transient occupancy tax revenues despite occupying just 1% of its land mass. Despite this, the neighborhood faces serious challenges: office vacancy rates ha
Can LA still build things that serve everyday people? Chris Torres and Eli Lipmen think so, and their Festival Trail project is putting that belief to the test. Festival Trail is a bold 28-mile mobility and culture corri
Most architects spend their careers talking to other architects. Vishaan Chakrabarti, FAIA took a different path, and it's made him one of the most influential voices in urban planning today. From his role as Manhattan D
Governor Newsom recently signed a significant rollback to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), creating a new statutory exemption for urban infill housing projects, effective immediately. Spencer Kallick, a l
What's holding LA back from reaching its potential? Jessica Lall, Managing Director of CBRE's DTLA office, and Carl Muhlstein, a veteran LA commercial real estate advisor, have a few ideas. When Jessica ran for mayor in
Building LA is back for season two with a fresh lineup of stories about the forces shaping the city from the ground up. This season, we're looking at how Los Angeles is being remade by architects and planners, developers
In today's post-pandemic world, we're presented with many new opportunities to think about and shape our workplaces. With over 7000 team members globally, Gensler leads the way with its innovative approach to workplace d
In this episode I sit down with Frances Anderton and David Kersh for a discussion about affordable housing and their new initiative, Awesome and Affordable. Many Los Angeles residents have misconceptions, or even prejudi
In this episode, I'm joined by Robert Hale FAIA, Partner at RIOS. We talk about his career and two of his latest studio projects – Echelon Studios in Hollywood and the Sony Pictures Scenic Arts Building in Culver City. D
Today, I’m joined by Marcelo Spina and Georgina Huljich, the co-founders of Patterns, to discuss their latest project – The Victory Wellness Center in North Hollywood. The project involves the conversion of a former supe
Today, I’m joined by John K Chan, AIA the Co-Founder and Design Director at Formation Association, to discuss how to create a great retail experience, as exemplified by his firm’s design of the Atwater Canyon retail deve
In this episode, I speak with Babak Ziai, the Founder and Managing Principal at BrandView, Inc. His commercial real estate investment management firm focuses on acquiring underutilized properties in exceptional locations
In this episode, I am joined by Oliver Evans, the CEO and co-founder of The Kinn – a membership club and workspace in LA that caters to socially conscious entrepreneurs. The Kinn is a beautiful, light-filled space which
In this episode we get out of town for the weekend and go to Mammoth to discuss The Limelight Hotel Mammoth with the Managing Director of WATG's LA office, Monica Cuervo. We dive into the company's rich history and its r
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Building LA is hosted by Sam Pepper. The show is categorised under business (society) and has published 33 episodes.
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