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Gensler's new Farmers Field design.

Our friends at Anschutz Entertainment Group have probably been agonizing over how to use design to make the best use of a small space, attract football's core, male demographic and, at the same time, really broaden the reach of NFL fandom.

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Don't let the bed bugs bite.

Much of that coverage focused on San Julian Street, just a block from the LAPD's downtown station, which had become an open-air drug market. The city quickly cleaned up the street and cracked down on drug use and sales, so much so that some alleged that L.A. was steamrolling the homeless to make way for gentrification and loft dwellers.

Things on the row appear to have made a u-turn:

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Poor library. If only Fickett could see you now.

You'd think, in a town of gays, you could find someone with a little taste (and we mean that in the best way possible). But no: In this rapidly expanding Boystown, tucked between pleasant Beverly Hills and ghetto-ass Hollywood, the bigger and shinier -- and more lucrative -- the better.

So when it came time to design their own digs, councilmembers went a little nuts. So in lust are they with the $64 million library complex that they've commissioned to house council chambers...

A building at Sunset Junction that some local preservationists hoped they could, well, save, went under the bulldozer over the weekend. The Eastsider LA reports that the demo'd building once housed a beloved bookstore, A Different Light, that seemed to kick off Silver Lake's renaissance in 1979.

According to the blog, the building at Santa Monica and Sunset boulevards was being targeted for at least partial preservation, including submission as a cultural-historical landmark, but ...

The L.A. County Sheriff's Department, which will occupy the 1925 Beaux Arts building that was the backdrop for TV's Dragnet and Get Smart, is champing at the bit. But it'll have to wait until late 2014, when renovation is completed, to move in alongside some District Attorney's officials.

Last month the county Board of Supervisors gave the key green light to bring the 14-story hall back to life:

Hummer vs. girl.

Well, time heals (unless you're dealing with global warming, in which case it makes things worse).

An L.A. architecture firm is flipping the script on the Hummer:

Murry Burns and Planaria Price were the subject of a People Issue

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Murray Burns and Planaria Price, urban pioneers

A formerly rundown and crime-ridden knoll near Echo Park lake, not far from Sunset Boulevard and Dodger Stadium, Angelino Heights is now one of the hottest places for urban pioneers with enough moola to buy a spectacular home. It's mini-San Francisco, and it's just off the 101:

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Richard Neutra.

But apparently the Viennese architect's work rates only as a "tear down" in tony Beverly Hills.

That's right, a recent, $14 million real estate listing for a Neutra home on Sunset Boulevard doesn't even mention that the late, great home designer even had a hand in creating the edifice. Nope:

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Oops.

In a typically L.A. move, the corporate folks at In-N-Out tore down what many believe is the oldest surviving burger stand in the chain (photo) in order to ... make way for a replica of that stand.

The San Gabriel Valley Tribune reports that top city officials in Baldwin Park, where the stand was considered "the city's most notable landmark," were "shocked." Councilwoman Monica Garcia: