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Work appears to be stalled on H Hotel W39, a 447-foot-tall project from Peter F. Poon Architectsat58 West 39th Streetin Midtown. Developed byWei Hong Hu of H Hotel LLC, the 29-story building is located between Fifth and Sixth Avenue just south of Bryant Park.

Recent photos from Tectonic show the reinforced concrete superstructure has risen just one story since YIMBYs lastupdatein late January. The formwork and rebar for the columns and floor slabs currently hover around the third floor and are still within the confines of the two abutting structures.

58 West 39th Street. Photo by Tectonic

58 West 39th Street. Photo by Tectonic

58 West 39th Street will yield 56,000 square feet with 41,500 square feet of commercial space, 65 hotel rooms, meeting rooms, a fitness center, and a hotel lobby along West 39th Street. The rendering depicts a very unconventional massing with a dramatic cantilever on its eastern profile. The glass-clad structure features rounded corners throughout and culminates in a dome-like parapet. The northern elevation, not seen in the rendering, will likely be a flat wall of glass that faces Bryant Park, and the eastern profile appears to feature an outdoor terrace.

The closest subways are the B, D, F, M, and 7 trains at the 42nd Street-Bryant Park station. Times Square is a short walk from the hotel, while the Port Authority Bus Terminal is only two avenues away on Eighth Avenue.

Its unclear when progress will pick up or when 58 West 39th Street will be completed. YIMBY spotted a target of winter 2020, as noted on the construction fence, though sometime in 2021 is more likely.

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Hello, God, its me, Margaret. Er, I mean its Carolina A. Miranda, staff writer at the Los Angeles Times with your weekly dose of essential culture news and heavy metal conspiracy theories.

L.A. Energy, 1983, a rendering for a downtown Los Angeles mural, by Betye Saar.

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Im starting with a throwback: a rendering by Betye Saar for a mural that occupied a wall on Fifth Street in downtown L.A. from 1983 to 1987. Located near the old headquarters of SoCal Edison at the base of Bunker Hill, the work, titled L.A. Energy, is now a point of inspiration for an online exhibition of Saars works on galleryplatform.la. Organized by Roberts Projects, the show explores notions of spiritual power.

Saar was recently the subject of a solo show at LACMA (which closed prematurely due to the pandemic). In his review, Times art critic Christopher Knight wrote about the ways in which the exhibition called out the the relationship between assemblage as a specific art form and the larger context of racism that has permeated American life from its beginnings.

Saars art, it turns out, is never not timely.

To live through the COVID-19 pandemic is to see the surfaces of our cities rewritten by invisible narratives of contagion. This week I have a mega-report about how the pandemic could and should change the architecture of our homes, our offices and our cities. I talk with a dozen L.A. architects including Michael Maltzan, Mark Lee, Sharon Johnston, Barbara Bestor, Lorcan OHerlihy, Kulapat Yantrasast and Pritzker Prize-winner Thom Mayne as well as leaders of three L.A. architecture schools.

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Like the rest of the world, the immediate future that architects are facing is grim. Two recent reports by the American Institute of Architects show billings dropping off a cliff. But even as the pandemic kneecaps the economy, architects are determined not to waste the moment thinking about how COVID-19 may shape 21st century architecture, in the same way that tuberculosis shaped the architecture of the early 20th century. Every crisis, says SCI-Arc director Hernn Daz Alonso, is an opportunity.

Offices are one of the first things that may emerge in a different guise as a result of the pandemic.

(Jiaqi Wang / For The Times)

Larry Kramer, the playwright and novelist known for his activism against U.S. government inaction in the face of the AIDS crisis, has died at 84. Kramer, an Oscar-nominated screenwriter who also penned the autobiographical play The Normal Heart, was the founder of Gay Mens Health Crisis and ACT UP. He was known for his indefatigable often rage-fueled fight for LGBTQ rights. His taunting approach predictably alienated some, writes David Colker in his Times obituary, to others it was a major turning point.

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In the New York Times, Daniel Lewis, notes that Kramer was among the first activists to foresee that what had first caused alarm as a rare form of cancer among gay men would spread worldwide ... Under the circumstances, he said, If you write a calm letter and fax it to nobody, it sinks like a brick in the Hudson.

In a moving appreciation, theater critic Charles McNulty examines Kramers career as a writer, which was often overshadowed by his activism. He was constitutionally incapable of self-serving apathy, writes McNulty. But thats not to say that he didnt recognize the cost of his conscience to that quieter corner of his identity as an artist.

Larry Kramer speaking at a Boston Gay Town Meeting in June 1987.

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Theater critic Jesse Green of the New York Times, also writes a tribute: Anger ... was Larry Kramers closet what he showed the world first.

Los Angeles Times digital editor Tracy Brown gathers reactions to the news of his death. Your writing was bold, courageous, and urgent, wrote actor Matt Bomer, who starred in the 2014 TV adaptation of The Normal Heart.

How did I meet Larry? He called me a murderer and an incompetent idiot on the front page of the San Francisco Examiner magazine. Dr. Anthony Fauci recalls the unlikely start to his 33-year friendship with Kramer. A great read.

I waited 12 years for this? Want a taste of some Kramer flame-throwing? In 1994, he had a thing or two to say about Jonathan Demmes AIDS film Philadelphia in the pages of The Times.

The world of culture lost another notable figure this week: California Light and Space artist Peter Alexander, who died at his home in Los Angeles at the age of 81. His experiments with materials such as resin, as I note in his obituary, led to the creation of ethereal works that evoked the quietly shifting nature of light, color and environment.

Christopher Knight pays tribute to his perception of light: Whatever his medium, the work Alexander made over 50 years articulates the distinctive, late 20th century intersection of natural and artificial light an illumination at once physical and, as always, inflected with lights cognitive and transcendent metaphors.

Peter Alexander in his studio in Santa Monica in 2013.

(Dave Lauridsen)

How to plan a theatrical season amid a pandemic? Jessica Gelt reports on how the Broad Stage will kick off its season with an outdoor opera that features only one actor, one singer and a string quartet. It will follow that up in 2021 with indoor productions, including a collaboration between cellist Yo-Yo Ma and photographer Austin Mann and Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpours experimental theater work, Nassim.

Earlier this month, Gelt reported that the Hollywood Bowl had canceled its season for the first time in 98 years. As a follow-up, The Times gathered Bowl memories from 24 performers who have gigged on its stage, including Fleetwood Macs Lindsey Buckingham, dancer Misty Copeland and singer Lionel Richie, who remembers an unusual performance as part of the Commodores: I remember that the tops to our uniforms made it, but the bottoms didnt. So we played the show in the tops the kind that snap underneath so they stay tucked in your pants. And bare feet. So, an afro, bare feet and a top.

A view of the Hollywood Bowl at dusk.

(Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

A growing contingent of museums, including L.A.'s Autry Museum of the American West, having been working on archiving the pandemic. Museums have a responsibility to meet history head on, says Autry curator Tyree Boyd-Pates.

In the past we considered digital engagement mainly as a marketing tool to get visitors to the museum. We now recognize that weve gained supporters from our recent pivot. George Davis, director of the California African American Museum, talks about how his institution has faced the pandemic.

The Baltimore Museum of Art announced a series of program to support local artists and art institutions.

Londons Tate museums have announced that they will not bestow the 100,000 Turner Prize this year. Instead, they will provide grants of 10,000 grants to 10 British artists.

Museums face a universe in which people-packed galas play a much smaller role in institutional fundraising. (Click through to watch the Met Operas Zoom performance of Va Pensiero embedded in the story.)

Plus, museums may still be closed, but the Museum of Quarantine is open. Jessica Gelt reports on a streetside installation that functions as improvised museum and community shrine.

The Markaz, an L.A. arts center devoted to Middle Eastern culture, is shutting down. With live events out of the picture for the foreseeable future, the organization will retool as an online journal called The Markaz Review.

Joan Bayley, a dancer and instructor who worked in Hollywood musicals alongside figures such as Judy Garland, Bing Crosby and Marilyn Monroe recently celebrated her 100th birthday. She marked the day with a festive drive-by parade, reports Makeda Easter. She also used the occasion to draw attention to the Westside School of Ballet, where she taught for more than three decades and which is now struggling amid the pandemic.

Joan Bayley gets feted with a drive-by parade of relatives and friends celebrating her 100th birthday.

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The BBC has commissioned a social-distancing appropriate version of Swan Lake. Choreographed by Corey Baker, it will take place in dancers bathtubs.

Times theater critic Charles McNulty says a recent bout of sitting around at home, in hot anticipation of a shipment of white wine, made him realize he was inhabiting Samuel Becketts Waiting for Godot. The pandemic has revealed Beckett to be the true realist of 20th century theater, he writes. Stuck indoors with little to distract us from the bewilderment of our metaphysical predicament, we are like one of his immobilized characters.

Playwright Samuel Beckett.

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In a rare interview with the Spanish culture publication ABC, composer Arvo Prt talks about what the pandemic has revealed about the collective nature of survival. This tiny coronavirus has showed us in a painful way that humanity is a single organism, he says, and human existence is possible only in relation to other living beings. In case your Spanish is rusty, the website Estonian World has a rough English translation of the interview.

David Wojnarowiczs 1989 zine In the Shadow of Forward Motion is being republished. And, writes Conor Williams, it functions as a survival guide, a textbook on the power of the body, of grief, and of anger.

I lived in Chile in 1990, the first year of democratic rule following a 17-year dictatorship. During that period, a Spanish-language version of the Scorpions power ballad Wind of Change seemed to be on the airwaves every two seconds. The song was written in the months before the end of the Cold War. But in Chile, which had also recently experienced a political transformation, the song was equally meaningful.

I have therefore been riveted by Patrick Radden Keefes new podcast Wind of Change, which chases a rumor that the song was written by the C.I.A. Tune in. Its a poignant, engrossing listen.

Scorpions frontman Klaus Meine performing in 2014. A new podcast explore his musics Cold War connections.

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Matt Cooper has been rounding up the best happenings online, including Carlos Sauras flamenco-inspired film Carmen and a 48-hour stream of George Takeis historical musical Allegiance, inspired by his childhood experiences in a World War II-era internment camp.

Have a kid who is graduating? Well, the LA Phil has just the thing for your at-home ceremony: members of the orchestra, along with the Youth Los Angeles Orchestra, playing Pomp and Circumstance.

The Asian Art Museum has downloadable Chinese opera coloring sheets. New Yorks Public Art Fund also has coloring sheets, these designed by artists Tauba Auerbach, Elmgreen & Dragset and Rob Pruitt, as well as downloadable Zoom backgrounds created by Petra Cortright, Aakash Nihalani and Olimpia Zagnoli.

If you like your Zoom backgrounds to have a more oomph, I recommend the selection offered by Londons Vagina Museum, though you might want to think twice before springing them on work colleagues.

The 2022 Bucharest Biennale will be curated by artificial intelligence. I enjoyed this oral history of the Wooster Group in Ursula. After more than a year of negotiations, Netflix has closed its deal to buy Hollywoods Egyptian Theatre from American Cinametheque. The cinematheques chairman said the organization will still screen films on-site.Mark Morriss Zoom dances are landing.

As protests rage over the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Times columnist LZ Granderson comes through with a must-read personal history about being detained by police. For those of you who are tired of reading about racism, he writes, trust me when I say this Im tired of writing about it.

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1+1>2 architects has completed a second house as part of a community of new residences in a western suburb of hanoi, vietnam. the project, titled mr. hungs house, neighbors mothers house, which was completed by the same firm. forming part of jackfruit village, the lakeside property features a distinctive thatched roof that protects the home from the regions hot sun and monsoon rains. as with its neighbor, the property was designed to exist in harmony with the landscape, allowing residents to immerse themselves in nature.

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with the design of mr. hungs house, named after the projects client, 1+1>2 architects sought to develop the structure horizontally to maximize lake views. taking into account the sloping terrain, the building is elevated to counter humidity and ensure natural surface drainage. raising the structure also helps avoid termites, which could damage the buildings structural integrity. the house adheres to the sites vegetation, with the position of the existing trees dictating the configuration of the dwelling.

as the home is oriented around the lake, all internal spaces are permeated with plants, wind, and sunlight. a footpath leads to the homes entrance, which opens directly into the main living space. the ground floor also contains a study as well as two bedrooms, each with access to a lakeside terrace. a staircase housed within a thatched tower designed to appear as a rice straw stack ascends to the main bedroom and sauna on the upper storey. the adobe bricks used for the walls were sourced from the land itself.

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Seven years ago this week, a team of Green Berets with the 7th Special Forces Group was enroute to mud-walled villages run by members of the Afghan Local Police.

An ALP leader they worked with, Sultan Mohammed, had been recently gunned down by the Taliban. The assassination was retribution and a warning to others. Days later, four U.S. soldiers were killed by an improvised explosive device near the base.

The Green Berets were on their way to visit the checkpoint Mohammed had patrolled, in Kandahar, the province where the Taliban was born one of the most restive places in Afghanistan. The plan was to drink some tea with the commander there and find out what he needed.

The soldiers loaded up in MRAPs named Batman, Joker, Bain and Riddler so called because its easier to remember those names than the serial numbers, said the team sergeant and headed outside the wire.

The small team of commandos and support troops who left the base in Kandahar were working with Afghan villagers to help the local population resist the Taliban once the majority of U.S. and NATO troops pulled out a year later.

The goal was to create a patchwork of areas across the country where indigenous forces made up of members of the local tribes and clans make it difficult for insurgents to operate.

Part of the Village Stability Operations (VSO)/Afghan Local Police program, it was a classic mission for special operations, especially Green Berets.

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But in September, at the end of this fiscal year, the U.S. is pulling the financial plug on what remains of that mission, which had success but at times was mired in controversy about extrajudicial killings, helping warlords and using children as troops.

In a recently released Operation Freedoms Sentinel lead inspector generals report to Congress, it was announced that the NATO Special Operations Component CommandAfghanistan (NSOCC-A) confirmed plans to dissolve the Afghan Local Police. Not only that, but the Afghans are supposed to gather up all the weapons and integrate the remaining 18,000 ALP members into the larger Afghan national security forces. Neither will be easy tasks.

Resolute Support continues to work closely with Afghan partners to provide train, advise, assist support on a wide variety of institutional issues, to include ALP dissolution, as noted in the IG report, a defense official told Military Times. We refer you to the Afghan Ministry of Interior. ASFF funding for the ALP will culminate at the end of FY2020.

Afghan officials could not be reached for comment.

But its a move that leaves those who helped create the program concerned that the weapons roundup and integration will be a disaster and worried about the Afghans who risked their lives to help America.

If we had maintained the VSO and ALP Program, the situation in Afghanistan today would be much different, retired Army Brig. Gen. Don Bolduc, dubbed the Godfather of the ALP program, told Military Times.

The Afghan government would be negotiating from a position of strength, the Taliban would be neutralized, AQ would be neutralized, and ISIS would never have seen an opportunity to join the fight. The Afghan people would be experiencing advanced social reform, safety and stability. The focus would be on strengthening their economy, governance, and regional stability. More importantly, the United States would be in a position to responsibly transition from combat operations to non-combatant operations.

Instead, bad political policy by the Obama administration, poor strategy, and the wrong operational approach by our senior military civilian and military leaders has led to the Taliban controlling the peace talk narrative, a weak Afghan government, continued regional instability, and a more effective AQ and ISIS, Bolduc said.

The genesis

VSO and ALP was designed in 2010 and implemented in 2011.

The VSO and ALP was the most successful bottom-up COIN program implemented in Afghanistan, said Bolduc. It was not perfect, but it was effective. It did what it was designed to do. The SOF teams with augmentation did a superb job organizing, equipping, training, advising and assisting our Afghan partners to disrupt, degrade, and neutralize the Taliban.

Gens. Stanley McCrystal, David Petraeus, and John Allen saw the effectiveness of the VSO and ALP Program and ensured we had the resources needed to expand VSO and the ALP, said Bolduc, now running as a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in New Hampshire. Adm. William McRaven also supported this program and ensured SOF component commanders resources the effort.

The program used the Afghan historical model of defending its nation by uniting villages and connecting districts by using villagers and organizing them to protect their village, family, and livelihood from the Taliban.

"This is how they defeated Alexander the Great, Ghengis Khan, the British, Russians, and now an international effort, Bolduc said.

When we started the program, the Taliban controlled the rural area in Afghanistan, said Bolduc. By the middle of 2013, the Afghans controlled over 80 percent of the rural Afghanistan. It is no secret, control rural Afghanistan and you control Afghanistan. In 2011, Mullah Omar (leader of the Taliban) declared that we cannot defeat this new American strategy.

Unfortunately, said Bolduc, by 2013 the Obama administration wanted to downsize in Afghanistan and change strategy. This resulted in a return to top down SOF CT approach and using the police and Army to defeat the Taliban. This was a transition from combat operations to non-combatant support operations.

Bolduc said he respectfully communicated to my superiors and the ISAF and IJC staff that changing strategy at this time is a bad idea.

"My staff assessed that by changing strategy now would have detrimental effects on the security situation. That is exactly what happened. I failed in my attempts to drive a different outcome. I was sent to Africa Command and the SOF 2 Star command began its transition to a CT focus command, leaving the VSO and ALP program to function in name only.

Trouble in the program

What started off as a promising effort to build up a bulwark against the Taliban eventually encountered serious problems.

A minority of villagers describe it as an indispensable source of protection, without which their districts would become battlegrounds or insurgent havens, but it is more common to hear complaints that ALP prey upon the people they are supposed to guard, according to a June 2015 report by the Crisis Group. The report argued that: Too often, the Afghan Local Police (ALP) has preyed on those it is meant to guard. Some members are outright bandits, exacerbating conflict. Rogue units should be disbanded, and better ones integrated into the armed forces. This must be done carefully and slowly, or else insurgents will win a new military edge.

Such behavior, according to Crisis Group, often provokes violence: in 2014, an ALP officer was three to six times more likely to be killed on duty than his ANSF counterpart.

At times, the report argued, this reflected the way ALP units have become a central part of the war, singled out by Taliban as important targets. In other places, the high rate resulted from abuses extortion, kidnapping, extrajudicial killings that instigated armed responses.

The local police are being used a lot as security guards for the local warlords," said John F. Sopko, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, in an October 2015 report. We dont know how bad it is because we and I mean the U.S. government really dont have a presence out in many of the areas where the Afghan Local Police are operating.

The Afghan government has made progress on the issue, of child soldiers, said Leila Zerrougui, the U.N. representative for children and armed conflict, the Associated Press reported in February 2016. But she said the Afghan Local Police government-allied groups that often operate as independent militias and are widely seen as unprofessional and corrupt are major perpetrators.

While the ALP "have gained some local support as a result of recent reforms, in many localities these forces have been responsible for numerous abuses against civilians, as well as summary executions of captured combatants and other violations of international humanitarian law, according to a 2017 Human Rights Watch report.

The proposed Afghan Territorial Army would ultimately replace the Afghan Local Police as a defense force at the local level, according to that report. There is concern that existing Afghan Local Police units could remain armed as militia forces.

The U.S. government initiated three specialized police programs after 2005: the Afghan National Auxiliary Police, the Afghan Public Protection Program, and the Afghan Local Police, SIGAR reported in 2017.

With limited oversight from and accountability to the Afghan government and the United States, these police forces were reported to have engaged in human rights abuses, drug trafficking, and other corrupt activities, ultimately serving as a net detractor from security, the report stated.

Yet, while the United States stopped supporting two of the programs due to these issues, the Afghan Local Police continue to operate today, according to the report.

Bolduc acknowledged there were problems.

Yes, it is not a perfect program, but it did what is was intended to do, he said. There were administrative issues, there were abuses by district and provincial governors and chiefs of police. Some ALP abused their power. We acted on these issues and did see our best to mitigate these issues.

Bottom line, the cost of this program was one-sixth the cost a soldier and one-eighth the cost of a policeman, said Bolduc. The return on investment was significant. This was a program the Afghan government could afford."

The program, he said, accomplished what the police and military could not:

1. Neutralized the Taliban

2. Established security in the rural areas

3. Allowed development and good services to be delivered to the populace.

4. Legitimized the Afghan government.

5. Allowed justice to be enforced by village elders and not the Taliban. Allowed farmers to farm. Allowed business to open and run.

Most of the issues with the ALP have been due to a lack of supervision, said retired Green Beret Lt. Col. Scott Mann, another key architect of the VSO/ALP program.

You can walk back the instances of abuse of power and there was usually a violation of VSO tenant, he said in a text message. In other words, ALP were brought in from outside areas, ALP were pushed beyond their community zone, or again lack of supervision. This is very typical when local, bottom-up programs like VSO become conventionalized into programs like ALP. The two are far from synonymous.

Better to end it

Mann is not mourning the death of the ALP program. Given the current status of U.S. troops in Afghanistan fewer than 10,000 now drawing down to 8,600 by July as halting peace negotiations with the Taliban fumble along Mann told Military Times that the program wouldnt work without the requisite oversight of teams like the one I was with out there visiting the ALP

I am OK with it being over and let me tell you why, said Mann, now an author and playwright who writes and speaks extensively about stability operations. I am a purist on the whole advisory piece. I believe, if you are going to advise irregular forces, you have an inherent responsibility to be in close proximity to them.

Programs like the VSO/ALP are a long-term endeavor, not a flash in the pan advance to cover a withdrawal, he said.

Now the hard work begins

As the program ends, the Afghans are going to have to round up the ALPs weapons and help integrate the ALP into other Afghan security agencies.

In the inspector generals report to Congress, NSOCC-A said that to mitigate potential security risks, the Afghan government has tentatively scheduled a plan for post-dissolution employment options for ALP members and for recovering ALP weapons and equipment.

The command reported that in order to prevent the creation of future insurgents, it is working with the Afghan Ministry of Interior Affairs, the Ministry of Defense, and the Office of the National Security Council to identify and encourage recruiting of ALP members into the Afghan National Army (ANA) and ANA-Territorial Force (ANA-TF), and the Afghan National Police.

All that may be easier said than done, according to Bolduc and Mann.

The integration will be a disaster and so will the weapons round-up, said Bolduc. I doubt very much the villagers want to be in the army or police. They would have already joined. They are mostly farmers and shop owners and need to be home.

Disarming them now will leave them vulnerable to attack by the Taliban, he said. ISAF tried this in earlier years along with a buy-back program and it was a disaster. It could also result in violence due to resistance and the Afghan government and international forces will be conducting operations against the populace. Now you got the Taliban, AQ, ISIS, and the populace against you.

Mann agreed.

Oh man, he said. Demobilization is always, in my opinion, the trickiest part of standing up an irregular force. My initial inclination is that this is very, very challenging. The military is not in the position to have any responsible oversight. We can say all day long that we are going to demobilize, but if you are not in a position to be in the rural areas, how can you do that?

Taking their guns away is also going to be a tremendous challenge, Mann said.

This is a heavily armed population, he said. Lets assume there is positive intent. These are still decent folks who do not intend to do harm. Well, they are going to face retribution for their activities in those rural areas by bad actors. To willingly give up their weapons is probably a hard sell.

The recent IG report seems to back up this gloomy assessment. The concerns also echo warnings issued by the programs critics that ending it could prove difficult, even dangerous.

DoS officials reported that implementing this strategy will be challenging, as ALP leadership has stated that they have limited ability to carry out the strategy and there is a lack of coordination with civilian public and private sector organizations that could help to find employment opportunities for former members of the ALP.

Previous Lead IG reporting" raised questions about whether well-armed but newly unemployed ALP members would join the ranks of violent extremist groups or local power brokers, who have previously used ALP units as their own private militias," the report states.

Left on their own

Seven years ago, the ODA commander and some of his men sat cross-legged underneath shade trees blocking out the hot sun. They sipped tea and talked with the ALP commander about his wants and needs.

The ALP commander, wanting to let bad guys in the area know he was protected, asked for a show of force. The TACP traveling with us made a call and a short while later, a Navy F-18 roared over the valley, putting a big smile on the ALP commanders face.

But now the ODA is gone and with it, such shows of force, leaving the ALP commander, who risked everything to stand up against the Taliban, all alone. There are thousands like him across Afghanistan.

And that troubles the men who helped create the VSO/ALP program.

Yes, I do worry about the ALP, said Bolduc. Especially since we will leave them vulnerable.

Mann said that to some degree...yes, he is worried about the ALP, too. But Ive been worried about those ALP since we pulled Special Forces and other operators out of the villages back in 2012 and 2013.

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In another time, not long ago, an elevator was a conveyance to reach a higher floor, an open office was a spot to clock eight hours while hoping your boss didnt catch you checking Facebook and a doorknob was one of those banalities of architecture that seemed to warrant attention only when it needed replacing.

What a difference a virus makes.

To live through the COVID-19 pandemic is to see the surfaces of our cities rewritten by invisible narratives of contagion. Elevators now seem like intolerably small spaces to share with a stranger. The open-plan office, with its recirculated air and countless shared surfaces, feels like a flu buffet. And that humble doorknob? It could play a starring role as a protagonist named Critical Vector in an over-the-top summer movie about an outbreak.

The pandemic has changed everything about the way we live. It is bound to change architecture too.

If you take the great architectural inventions of the 20th century: the airport, the high-rise, the freeway those are the things that are challenged the most right now, says Brett Steele, dean of UCLAs School of the Arts and Architecture. They have great density or they promise movement at high speeds. Those are exactly the things that sit at the crux of the crisis we are going through.

Architects say new ways of traveling through airports will be part of the coronavirus reset. Above, a masked traveler at Tom Bradley International Terminal at LAX.

(Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

Its a reset button for the entire world, says Mark Lee, co-founder of the Los Angeles firm Johnston Marklee and chair of the architecture department at Harvards Graduate School of Design. Do we need so many new buildings? Do we need such specific programs? It raises questions that are really helpful.

Already the pandemic has had architects and architecture schools (which spent their spring semester improvising classes and project reviews over the internet) considering the nature of buildings at a time in which one of architectures core purposes creating containers that bring people together seems almost inconceivable.

Im working on a synagogue, and that is a crazy problem, says Barbara Bestor, founder of Bestor Architecture, a 25-person firm based in Silver Lake. How do you do High Holidays after COVID with 2,000 or 3,000 people?

The solution may involve segmenting larger spaces and segregating the most vulnerable in a separately ventilated environment the virus version of the glassed-in cry rooms contained within some churches and movie theaters. Or it may involve designing a physical space that, Bestor says, features a robust video component so that people can watch remotely.

The virus version of old-fashioned cry rooms coming to your neighborhood cineplex?

(Jiaqi Wang / For The Times)

Mark Lee, co-founder of Johnston Marklee, chair of the architecture department at Harvards Graduate School of Design

Gatherings via videoconference could become a way of life. Architects could find themselves designing spaces just for that purpose.

In the early 20th century, concerns about tuberculosis and sanitation helped shape Modernism consider Richard Neutras influential design for the Lovell Health House, filled with windows and sleeping porches tailored to promote air circulation in Californias dry, sunny climate. Similarly, COVID-19 is likely to reshape the ways in which todays architects design houses and offices, transit hubs and medical facilities. It will have architects reaching for new technologies and reintroducing old ones say, a little less air conditioning and a lot more cross ventilation.

Barbara Bestor in May at her Bestor Architecture office in Silver Lake. She says smart density is more than just designing a single building.

(Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

Barbara Bestor, founder Bestor Architecture

But first, architecture firms, like all other businesses, must weather the pandemic. Design studios have atomized, with staffs working remotely from home. And though construction on existing projects remains underway in many locations, including California, where it has been deemed essential, the design of new buildings has largely halted, threatening the economic stability of many firms.

A rendering of the Sixth Street Bridge by Michael Maltzan Architecture. Construction on the bridge, which connects downtown L.A. with Boyle Heights, has continued through the pandemic.

(Bureau of Engineering, City of L.A. / Michael Maltzan Architecture / HNTB Corporation)

Every month, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) reports on architectural billings for an estimated 700 U.S. firms an index that can generally be used to project construction spending over the following nine to 12 months. From February to March, billings tumbled dramatically according to the April report. (An embedded graph looks like a literal cliff.) The most recent index, published in May, showed a continued plunge the steepest decline on record.

Of the 12 Los Angeles firms contacted for this story including a small seven-person shop, studios that employ dozens and the L.A. outpost of a global design office with more than 1,200 employees 11 reported having projects suspended. For now, they are holding onto most of their employees. Only two studios reported laying off employees and two reported furloughs.

The majority of architects interviewed, however, expressed anxiety about what is to come. We might not, said one architect, have any new starts in the fall.

An interior rendering of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, designed by wHY. Founder Kulapat Yantrasast is looking into how museums might safely reopen when the lockdown orders lift.

(wHY / Academy Museum Foundation)

Kermit Baker, who serves as the AIAs chief economist and helps produce the organizations various economic reports, says he has seen a couple of major downturns in his 25 years at the AIA but never anything like the pandemic. The first was the 9/11-dot-com bubble, and the other was the recession of 2008 and 2009, he says. There is little meaningful comparison.

The economics are dire. And yet there is a determination to not waste the moment.

Every crisis is an opportunity, says Hernn Daz Alonso, director of the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc). The optimist in me believes that this will force us to reevaluate everything that we do.

This is a time, he says, to ask the big metaphysical questions about architecture and its purpose. Its also about considering the nuts and bolts. If we dont get a vaccine, what does that mean? What does that mean in terms of physical space? What do you do with a doorknob?

Fewer people, more lounge space? Architects say office layouts need to adjust for the coronavirus era of design.

(Jiaqi Wang / For The Times)

Paul Danna, design partner for Skidmore Owings & Merrill

Some of those immediate questions revolve around the office.

In 2015, almost a quarter of the U.S. workforce was already doing some or all of its work from home, according to data published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

In early May, Twitter announced it would make remote working a permanent option for its employees. Later in the month, Facebook announced a similar move. If others start doing the same, it will have a tectonic effect on commercial real estate markets. It also means that the office as we know it is about to be transformed.

Bob Hale is partner and creative director at L.A.-based RCH Studios, a 160-person architectural firm that has worked on office projects around the U.S. He says that some of his recent office designs called for densities that were twice what it was 20 years ago. COVID-19 is likely to put the brakes on that trend. Densities of offices will change, he says.

Densities of offices will change, says Bob Hale of RCH Studios, seen here at the Music Center in 2019.

(Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

This raises questions about one of the most popular and widely reviled workplace designs: the open-plan office, in which rows of workers are jammed around long bench desks.

These are settings that have a poor track record when it comes to producing actual work. They also, according to a Danish study from 2011, account for significantly higher rates of sick leave a phenomenon that played out in a study published by the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in April, which showed the ways coronavirus hopscotched around an open-plan call center in Seoul. (Also, is it too much to want to sit at your desk and eat a sandwich without feeling like youre on display?)

For years, design writers have penned obituaries for the open office. And some are certain coronavirus will put another nail in the open-plan coffin. But Lawrence Scarpa, a founder of Brooks + Scarpa, a 22-person firm with offices in L.A. and Fort Lauderdale, says the open office is not going away.

Headquarters for a 60,000-square-foot tech company designed by RADAR, an architectural office founded by Rachel Allen. The office was completed just weeks before the governors safer-at-home order shut down most offices.

(Jim Simmons Photography)

For one, real estate in cities like L.A. is too valuable. Moreover, office culture is increasingly casual, and therefore architecture is unlikely to go back to the formal, private dens of Mad Men.

It satisfies a younger generation who wants a spatial equality in the office space, says Bestor. People do not want the executive holed up in the corner office.

That said, Bestor does not see a triumphant return for the cubicle, which at least gave the illusion of privacy. Cubicles are nasty, she declares.

Instead, many of the architects I spoke with visualize once-cavernous spaces segmented into more intimately scaled settings with small clusters of desks. We work in teams, so its easy to think of people in groups, says Paul Danna, a design partner in the L.A. office of Skidmore Owings & Merrill, a global firm at work on an office development in Pasadena. Its a matter of putting barriers between groups as opposed to every individual.

A rendering of the Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine at USC, with interior design by RCH Studios.

(Kilograph)

Ultimately, most architects said the office of the future will likely be less focused on desks and more on meeting and gathering spaces.

Its a future that some designers are already envisioning for their own firms. Im meeting with my associates and we are planning a radical shift in how we work, says Thom Mayne, the Pritzker Prize-winning architect who founded Morphosis, the 90-person studio that designed the CalTrans District 7 headquarters in downtown L.A.

He says the pandemic has been a great test of remote working for his office, one that has offered a bevy upsides: more flexible work schedules, hours gained by not sitting in soul-crushing traffic and the improved air quality that comes with less car commuting.

I am moving two-thirds of the desks out of the office and it will be more of a meeting place, he says of his Culver City office. We need couches and tables and comfortable chairs instead of just desks. It redefines the idea of everybody has a desk.

Architect Thom Mayne at a panel discussion at MOCA in 2013.

(John Sciulli / WireImage)

Thom Mayne, architect

In fact, the office of the future may look like the office of the 1990s: Scarpa says that once fears of transmission have passed, we may see a return to hot desking a flexible, more space-efficient environment in which people no longer have their own desks but a shared rotating desk and plenty of sanitized wipes, we assume.

Access to fresh air is no longer a luxury in a time of coronavirus quarantines.

(Jiaqi Wang / For The Times)

Barbara Bestor, founder Bestor Architecture

Change is also coming to the home. Certainly, the coronavirus has made glaringly evident L.A.'s shortcomings in the areas of housing construction and design. Single families in single-family homes have been waiting out the governors safer-at-home orders in relative comfort; others, not so much. The pandemic, says Mayne, makes extremely clear the importance of urban housing at multiple economic types. That is the biggest urban problem in Los Angeles.

Nearly 60,000 people in L.A. County are without permanent shelter a figure that is unconscionable on an ordinary day but at the moment represents a public health tinder box. Countless other Angelenos have been crowded into small apartments with little access to fresh air.

I have one employee who lives in an apartment without any outdoor space, says Rachel Allen, founder of RADAR, a 10-person firm with offices in Chinatown. Shes the one going the most crazy. She hangs out in her parking lot.

Architect Rachel Allen, outside her Chinatown office in May, says the design of housing is likely to evolve as a result of the pandemic.

(Gabriella Angotti-Jones / Los Angeles Times)

Rachel Allen, founder RADAR

For starters, L.A. needs to build more housing, faster and more efficiently. The design solutions for that may already be at hand.

Prefab construction, in which a buildings key components are manufactured in a factory and then assembled on site, is already going mainstream in places like Japan, Germany and Sweden. In Los Angeles, Michael Maltzan Architecture used prefab techniques in its design of the Star Apartments for the Skid Row Housing Trust in 2014. Now Lorcan OHerlihy Architects (LOHA), is doing the same for a 54-unit project for Clifford Beers Housing that is under construction in South L.A.

Isla Intersections, designed to serve formerly homeless individuals and families, is being crafted from custom-built shipping containers. If it had been constructed as a regular apartment complex, the development would have taken four years to complete. By employing prefab, it will take two. Says the firms founder, Lorcan OHerlihy: Speed is the essential issue.

Its a method that can be applied to other housing types as well. LOHA is also at work on a pair of modular homes crafted from wood. We think, he says, this will really be of interest.

But to use these time-saving methods with more regularity, the citys Department of Building and Safety will need to be more open-minded about permitting prefab designs.

Its still challenging, says OHerlihy, of contending with the red-tape. The city is better at it now, but they are still apprehensive about it.

A photographic illustration shows Isla Intersections highlighted to the right of the freeway. The prefab housing complex for formerly homeless people was designed by Lorcan OHerlihy Architects.

(LOHA)

The pandemic, likewise, has put a spotlight on the need for residential design that is more humane especially when it comes to multifamily units and apartment buildings. Balconies should be a human right, says Bestor. Shade and balconies.

Cross-ventilation, roof decks, balconies, courtyards, gardens and other outdoor spaces have been considered luxury amenities. OHerlihy, who has long applied these principles to his work, even in his affordable housing designs, says the pandemic could make them essentials.

There is an opportunity to give more gravitas to our clients about passive design, about greening up buildings, he says. One can imagine that all of those aspects will now be taken far more seriously.

With all of this, the shape of the home as we know it is also liable to change.

Lorcan OHerlihy, in 2018, at an L.A. housing complex designed by his firm. The architect is a big proponent of passive design techniques that bring air and light into buildings.

(Maria Alejandra Cardona / Los Angeles Times)

Lorcan OHerlihy, founder Lorcan OHerlihy Architects

For one, the average middle-class home will likely include a home office as a standard feature. It will mean adjusting homes in other ways too.

Already, over the last decade, the so-called Boomerang Generation adults in their late 20s and early 30s have increasingly returned home to live with their parents. For architects, this has meant thinking about designing multigenerational homes that serve children when they are small but also as adults. Now the pandemic has added work-from-home to the mix, creating a scenario in which multiple adults may be working in a home at one time.

Home design may, as a result, shift to incorporate larger bedroom spaces that children can inhabit over time and also use as a remote workspace. Something like a loft within a family home, says Allen.

And every home may need a corner or two that functions as a ready-made Zoom backdrop (or risk having your decor deconstructed on Twitter). There is this intersection with built and virtual space, says Daz Alonso. That will be a factor moving forward.

In late April, urbanist Joel Kotkin wrote an op-ed for The Times in which he noted that L.A.'s dispersed urban pattern has proven a major asset in the midst of the pandemic, noting that infection rates were below that of denser cities like New York. Its probably wildly premature to be doing any end-zone dances in favor of sprawl, given that the pandemic has yet to fully play out. And, as Scarpa notes, sprawl, with its traffic and attendant accidents and pollution, is killing us slowly.

In fact, almost every architect I interviewed for this story says that it remains essential for L.A. to move forward on increasing density. But, says Milton Curry, dean of the school of architecture at USC. We need to do it smartly.

Currently, the model for density in L.A. consists of podium apartments: two stories of concrete parking structure, topped by several stories of apartments. Or as Bestor likes to describe it: Parking, followed by three stories of crap. Outdoor space may consist of a few decorative hedges at the perimeters. Only the most high-end ones feature courtyards or roof decks.

Bestor says the pandemic has revealed the urgency for better models.

Barbara Bestors firm has undertaken a research project that looks at how L.A. might bring density, outdoor spaces and walkability to a neighborhood near San Fernando Road along the L.A. River.

(Bestor Architecture)

In a development that occupies a whole block, for example, parking could be relegated to one corner, apart from the residential structures, she says. You put the parking in one corner and then you walk to your apartment through an open space. From there, you have groupings of three- and five-story buildings with their own entrances. Thats a good form of density for L.A. she says, and its easier to manage COVID situations because its not one lobby for a million people.

Ideally, urban planners would then find ways to incentivize the connection of green spaces so that these outdoor areas arent happy accidents but a continuous green lung.

This is the moment to push for pocket parks and other things that allow us to exist together in a dense environment, says Sharon Johnston, cofounder of Johnston Marklee. (Its a strategy her firm deployed in its renovation and expansion of UCLAs graduate art studios, which has a courtyard and open-air work areas.)

Is there anyone out there who does not like fresh air and cross-ventilation or views? asks Lawrence Scarpa. A housing development for disabled vets by Brooks + Scarpa maximizes light and air.

(Tara Wujcik)

In the interim, the efficient use and reuse of our existing infrastructure will be critical. If fewer buildings are used as commercial office space (which looks highly likely), that could make way for those buildings to be turned into housing. We are already seeing some office-to-housing conversions in Koreatown, says Allen.

And in January, California relaxed rules for constructing ADUs accessory dwelling units, or granny flats which continue to bring smart density to the city. Nursing homes are going to be very unpopular for a long time, adds Allen, whose firm has worked on many of these. More folks than ever are going to want Grandma in the backyard where they can keep eye on her.

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1+1>2 architects, led by hoang thuc hao, approached the project as a potential model for contemporary rural housing in vietnam. sloping down towards the lake, the terrain on which the house sits undulates with the ground floor responding to the changes in elevation. the adobe bricks used for the walls were sourced from the land itself, while the thatched U-shaped roof canopy protects a secluded interior courtyard. here, a foot path provides access to the propertys interior.

internally, each area of the house has been designed to offer a range of different spatial experiences. protected from the sun, a curved corridor connects all areas of the home, with rooms facing the lake receiving fresh air and ventilation. meanwhile, outdoor terraces allow occupants to spend as much time outdoors as possible. the residence has two bedrooms, with all areas designed to convey a welcoming and comfortable atmosphere where humans can coexist with nature.

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When a couple in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom, tapped Will Gamble Architects to design an extension for their Victorian home, they expected the adjacent stone wall ruin would have to go. But the firm came back with an entirely different idea: instead of demolishing the centuries-old remnants, the architects proposed celebrating the crumbling structure with a reinforcing steel, brick, and glass volume.

Locatedabout an hour northwest of London in Northamptonshire, a Grade II listed Victorian home was extended to encompass an adjacent cattle barn and historic ruin.

"Despite falling into disrepair, the ruin was very important within the community and further afield," says director Will Gamble. "It once produced parchment paper and was rumored to have made paper for members of the royal family. The ruin was also very much part of the character of the building as a whole, and we felt strongly that it needed to be preserved."

The disorderly nature of the ruin is juxtaposed against the modern extension and Victorian-era residence. The facade brickwork was largely completed using reclaimed materials, allowing the new section to sensitively blend into its surroundings.

Nestled between the existing Victorian home and the crumbling masonry section sat an unused cattle shed. To connect all three sections, Gamble proposed a "building within a building" using materials reclaimed from the site. "[The ruin] ended up being the driving force behind the entire scheme, and the change in approach was eventually well received by the client, the planners, and Historic England," Gamble says.

A new brick staircase leads up to a rooftop terrace above the new section. A portion of the Victorian home was also remodeled to tie the old and new spaces together.

New retaining walls and landscaping help to further harmonize the stepped areas.

One half of the ruin footprint is now an enclosed living room and kitchen for the homeowners. Cor-Ten steel beams reinforce the formerly crumbling sections while reclaimed brick and floor-to-ceiling glass fill in the rest. The new volume was limited to one story to allow remaining remnants of the ruin to dominate the overall visual appearance.

One half of the ruin was enclosed and is now part of the kitchen and dining area. The other half of the ruin encloses a new patio, which is accessible from the former factory entrance.

Internally, timber joists inside the old cattle shed were left exposed and stone walls were washed in lime to create a mottled effect. Painted steelwork distinguishes the new section while white-washed oak floors help to connect the entire space. Contrasting with it all is a strikingly contemporary kitchen, which plays on the theme of a modern intervention set within a historic context.

The firm also designed the new kitchen space, opting for a contrasting darker palette.

An original timber post stands beside the new sleek cabinetry and stainless-steel countertops.

"The concept behind the interiors was to go for an honest palette of materials that celebrated the architecture of the cattle shed and the ruin," explains Gamble. "We tried to preserve the character of the ruin and the cattle shed as much as possible by leaving most of what was already there uncovered."

Painted wood and steel beams subtly mark a separation between the former cattle shed and ruin footprint. The two areas now seamlessly flow together as a kitchen, dining, and living area.

The new dining area looks out onto the front garden. Will Gamble Architects designed a concrete plinth to run along the base of the stone walls as a monolithic 'skirting' design.

Opposite the dining room and around the corner from the kitchen, a small living room looks out directly onto the ruins. Sliding glass doors provide access to the new enclosed patio.

Yet another discovery during the restoration was the original parchment factorys location on top of a natural spring. According to Gambles research, hides used to make the parchment were cleaned by lowering them into a series of spring-fed baths located underneath the building. The firm reopened one of these underground baths as part of the project, creating a new water feature and dry well for water runoff.

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1 Introduction of Countertops Market

1.1 Overview of the Market1.2 Scope of Report1.3 Assumptions

2 Executive Summary

3 Research Methodology of Verified Market Research

3.1 Data Mining3.2 Validation3.3 Primary Interviews3.4 List of Data Sources

4 Countertops Market Outlook

4.1 Overview4.2 Market Dynamics4.2.1 Drivers4.2.2 Restraints4.2.3 Opportunities4.3 Porters Five Force Model4.4 Value Chain Analysis

5 Countertops Market, By Deployment Model

5.1 Overview

6 Countertops Market, By Solution

6.1 Overview

7 Countertops Market, By Vertical

7.1 Overview

8 Countertops Market, By Geography

8.1 Overview8.2 North America8.2.1 U.S.8.2.2 Canada8.2.3 Mexico8.3 Europe8.3.1 Germany8.3.2 U.K.8.3.3 France8.3.4 Rest of Europe8.4 Asia Pacific8.4.1 China8.4.2 Japan8.4.3 India8.4.4 Rest of Asia Pacific8.5 Rest of the World8.5.1 Latin America8.5.2 Middle East

9 Countertops Market Competitive Landscape

9.1 Overview9.2 Company Market Ranking9.3 Key Development Strategies

10 Company Profiles

10.1.1 Overview10.1.2 Financial Performance10.1.3 Product Outlook10.1.4 Key Developments

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1.1 Overview of the Market1.2 Scope of Report1.3 Assumptions

2 Executive Summary

3 Research Methodology of Verified Market Research

3.1 Data Mining3.2 Validation3.3 Primary Interviews3.4 List of Data Sources

4 Laminate Countertops Market Outlook

4.1 Overview4.2 Market Dynamics4.2.1 Drivers4.2.2 Restraints4.2.3 Opportunities4.3 Porters Five Force Model4.4 Value Chain Analysis

5 Laminate Countertops Market, By Deployment Model

5.1 Overview

6 Laminate Countertops Market, By Solution

6.1 Overview

7 Laminate Countertops Market, By Vertical

7.1 Overview

8 Laminate Countertops Market, By Geography

8.1 Overview8.2 North America8.2.1 U.S.8.2.2 Canada8.2.3 Mexico8.3 Europe8.3.1 Germany8.3.2 U.K.8.3.3 France8.3.4 Rest of Europe8.4 Asia Pacific8.4.1 China8.4.2 Japan8.4.3 India8.4.4 Rest of Asia Pacific8.5 Rest of the World8.5.1 Latin America8.5.2 Middle East

9 Laminate Countertops Market Competitive Landscape

9.1 Overview9.2 Company Market Ranking9.3 Key Development Strategies

10 Company Profiles

10.1.1 Overview10.1.2 Financial Performance10.1.3 Product Outlook10.1.4 Key Developments

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