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Specializing in what he terms “progressive, transformative experiences,” Los Angeles–based architect Michael Maltzan champions avant-garde strategies for planning and construction. Whether designing museums, schools, housing for the homeless, or manses for VIPs, he brings three-dimensional form to enlightened thinking. In downtown L.A., Maltzan is working on One Santa Fe, a sprawling development of residential and retail spaces interwoven with gardens and plazas that promises to make a vibrant urban center out of a former industrial tract. In Canada he is designing the new Inuit Art and Learning Centre at the Winnipeg Art Gallery. And in Beverly Hills he has conjured a glorious residence of laser-cut metal panels, dramatic angles, and shimmering reflecting pools to showcase longtime client Michael Ovitz’s astonishing collection of art and decorative treasures. mmaltzanom

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