Ace Hotel

April 9th, 2013

Fractal Projections is a play on the idea of the cube broken in space to create an interlocking grid system that follows a linear deformation, allowing them to break from the normal grid behavior into a family of fractal surfaces. Ace Hotel Downtown Los Angeles hangs its shingle later this year, and we couldn’t be happier to share a neighborhood with one of our almae matres, SCI-Arc. This Thursday, we’re looking forward to circling like sharks around Evelina Sausina and Eugene Kosgoron’s installation — the winner of SCI-Arc’s 40/40 competition — at the Farmer’s and Merchant’s Bank building for the Downtown LA Artwalk. 40/40 pays homage to architecture and how SCI-Arc alumni have transformed the school over the preceding four decades. Hats off, neighbors.

Fractal Projections is a play on the idea of the cube broken in space to create an interlocking grid system that follows a linear deformation, allowing them to break from the normal grid behavior into a family of fractal surfaces.


Ace Hotel Downtown Los Angeles hangs its shingle later this year, and we couldn’t be happier to share a neighborhood with one of our almae matres, SCI-Arc. This Thursday, we’re looking forward to circling like sharks around Evelina Sausina and Eugene Kosgoron’s installation — the winner of SCI-Arc’s 40/40 competition — at the Farmer’s and Merchant’s Bank building for the Downtown LA Artwalk. 40/40 pays homage to architecture and how SCI-Arc alumni have transformed the school over the preceding four decades. Hats off, neighbors.


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March 2nd, 2013

The original indies sign the birth certificate for one of their earliest ventures as United Artists, their newly founded breakaway republic from the Hollywood studio system, which was starting to cramp their styles. Now all they need is a headquarters, preferably something with a flagship theater for premieres and an office tower for reading scripts and rehearsing bowler-and-cane routines. We’re thrilled to be inheriting their castle in Downtown LA this year…


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February 21st, 2013

LA INTERVIEW : ARI TAYMOR OF ALMA

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Chef Ari Taymor at Alma, a soon-to-be next-door neighbor to Ace Hotel Downtown LA, is a kindred spirit who understands that a dish holds every bit as much power to take you back in time or across the big ponds as the most haunting note struck on a Mellotron M400. We stopped in recently and broke bread with him and the Alma family and asked him if he could ruminate on some formative dishes for us.

Most of my memories of food and the compositions that take place from these memories center around other senses than taste.

Celery root soup, smoked lardo, apple and pine: This is a winter dish that for me evokes a summer day. A drive through the Santa Cruz Mountains on a first date. The cool, misty fog that covers the central coast each morning in the summertime is starting to burn off. The late morning turns to early afternoon and the lazy sun makes the resin of the pine trees fragrant, mixing with the smell of campfire. The blue of the ocean is visible in the distance. This dish that conjures for me a very clear moment in time and the flavors for me compartmentalize those emotions. Sweetness, smoke, bitter and salt.

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February 8th, 2013

Painter Miguel Osuna opens his studio — down the street from the future Ace LA — to Downtown wanderers during this Valentine’s Day’s Art Walk for SPIN — an open house of in-progress works with oil on canvas depicting the well-loved highways and arteries of California and beyond. Maybe we’ll see you on the beat.

Painter Miguel Osuna opens his studio — down the street from the future Ace LA — to Downtown wanderers during this Valentine’s Day’s Art Walk for SPIN — an open house of in-progress works with oil on canvas depicting the well-loved highways and arteries of California and beyond. Maybe we’ll see you on the beat.


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