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XTEN has begun design on a new residential project in the Bird Streets of Los Angeles.

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XTEN's Surfhouse featured in Hotdogger, a French design and surfing magazine.

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XTEN's Downtown LA Hotel and Guggenheim Helsinki received second place in their categories of Hospitality Concept and Cultural Concept from Architecture Podium's International Architecture Awards 2015.  Stadtarchiv Luzern also received an honorable mention in the Cultural Concept category.

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XTEN's Ford/Ching, as photographed by Art Gray, is featured in new book My Cool Kitchen: A Style Guide to Unique and Inspirational Kitchens.

Nakahouse has received the 2015 Residential Architect Award for Custom House Under 3000 Square Feet.  The project was also then featured in a spread in the AIA's Residential Architect magazine.

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"King’s photograph strikes me as the most affecting single composition in the show.  His view of the landscape outside, seen through complex windows in an empty white room, could easily be mistaken for a large-scale photograph of that landscape installed in an art gallery..."
-Colin Westerbeck, Artillery Magazine, http://artillerymag.com/now-z

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XTEN's current buildings in progress, comparison by footprint and parcel size

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XTEN's Nakahouse is the May 25th page in Archipendium's 2015 daily tear-off calendar.  The calendar includes 365 architecture projects from around the world with projects chosen for both their fascinating designs and elements of sustainability.

ArchDaily selected an article featuring XTEN's Guggenheim proposal as one of its favorite articles of the past year. The list recognizes pieces that covered crucial events at the heart of ArchDaily's editorial mission and included an article shortlisting XTEN's submission for the Guggenheim Helsinki as one of the most exciting proposals.  The full article may be found here: http://tinyurl.com/ArchDaily2014

XTEN's Alta Mura project starts construction in Los Angeles, California.

XTEN's proposal for the new Guggenheim Museum in Helsinki was featured in ArchDaily's "32 “Discarded” Helsinki Guggenheim Proposals You Should Know About".  The article chose to showcase just 32 of the record-breaking 1,715 submissions for the museum in a look at "great designs-that-could-have-been."  The full article may be found here: http://www.archdaily.com/579268/32-discarded-guggenheim-proposals-you-should-know-about/

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Openhouse is featured as the cover story in the South Korean magazine The Haus.

Downtown LA Hotel and Nakahouse are both featured in the exhibition “The City And The World” at UCTEA Chamber of Architects of Turkey in Istanbul.

Bel Air Residence is featured as the cover story in the Brazilian magazine Residenciais.

XTEN has been invited by Paperhouses, an open source platform that brings world-class residential architecture for free to the general public, to design a house. Principal Austin Kelly was interviewed by Paperhouses about the Boxhouse, the practice in US and Europe and other award-winning projects of XTEN.