Los Angeles is getting a number of 4-7 story woodframe apartment and condo complexes, primarily in Downtown, Hollywood/West Hollywood, Koreatown, Santa Monica/Venice, Glendale, and Culver City. The buildings can and do run the entire design spectrum, but a disporportionate amount tend to be of the bland, uninspired variety from this firm:
http://tca-arch.com/portfolio/. By contrast, LA's contemporary SFH architecture is among the most cutting edge and avant garde anywhere, which makes sense, given LA's history of progressive mid-century design.
Oslo is both large-scale redevelopment and traditional infill. On one hand, you have residential buildings go up on small lots in 1880s-1900s neighborhoods, but most of the new units added are redevelopments of train tracks, harbor frontage, auto-centric districts not far from downtown, etc. The most ambitious of these is
Barcode, essentially the construction of a La Defense-style CBD next to the main train station. In comparison to most cities elsewhere, contemporary architecture and design in Oslo is generally of a very high level and quality.
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KingoftheHill., on Flickr
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KingoftheHill., on Flickr
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KingoftheHill., on Flickr