It isn’t everyday that a distinct landmark arises; but this month a 5.6 million square foot L.A. LIVE sports and entertainment district was born. The project houses the Ritz Carlton Hotel & Residences as well as the JW Marriott. The mixed-use development will play host to the GRAMMYs, EMMYs, American Music Awards, ESPYs, and American Idol Finals. In addition to housing all the glamour of Hollywood, the project also boasts sustainable features, such water-efficient fixtures, landscaping, and solar-reflecting surfaces on roofs, paving and landscaping to reduce heat island effect.

A two week workshop in Madrid, Spain will start tomorrow. The focus of the training from Open Up is on the development of projects for the digital façade in Medialab-Prado's building. This is a collaborative effort is meant to explore the relationship between the urban screen and public space, to experiment with the screen’s communicative, narrative and visual capacities, and to investigate its potential to offer new forms of participation. Selected projects will even be developed further.