Daveed Kapoor @daveedkapoor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Noooooo! Such a cool restaurant. Hope the Irving Gill depot survives 020
Reposted by Daveed KapoorJoe Linton @lintonjoe.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Lastly I will complain about the vacant park-front site where the press conference took place. Why is there a 30+ foot vacant dirt area in front of LA State Historic Park? 142
Reposted by Daveed KapoorJoe Linton @lintonjoe.bsky.social · 10/09/2026At some point, perhaps the Mayor and the Councilmember can maybe cancel that hopefully-never-going-to-happen Spring Street widening… and figure how turn those ~3 acres into community-serving green spaces? I am not holding my breath. 152
Reposted by Daveed KapoorTyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026🚨COVER ANNOUNCEMENT!🚨 My new book, "Claiming Yosemite: The Civil War, the California Genocide, and the Invention of National Parks," will be published by @stanfordpress.bsky.social's Redwood Press on April 20! Available for pre-order now via the link in my bio. www.instagram.com/p/DdBrXYLkUJ... 35519
Daveed Kapoor @daveedkapoor.bsky.social · 04/09/2026when the super el niño hits expect these paved over creeks to rise again lacreekfreak.wordpress.com/las-historic... (LA Creek Freak my favorite of the many incredible projects of Joe Linton)lacreekfreak.wordpress.comWhere’s my creek?This page is a mess! But if you can wade through it, you may find some fun info about where a creek in your neighborhood is or used to be! I promise to make an earnest cleanup effort in the veryn… 100
Daveed Kapoor @daveedkapoor.bsky.social · 01/08/2026"seeing the ocean horizon for the first time is not something incidental but, rather, a change in consciousness whose consequences are unknown" paul virilio, bunker archaeology 020
Daveed Kapoor @daveedkapoor.bsky.social · 18/07/2026So much forest cleared for terrible sprawl. Replaced with oceans of asphalt. Raising the temperature & depleting groundwater. Causing the rest of the forest to burn 010
Daveed Kapoor @daveedkapoor.bsky.social · 07/07/2026planners should not be designing architecture 020
Reposted by Daveed KapoorAlissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Just going to keep reiterating this, but Bass saying "no, the air is not dangerous" is just an extremely inappropriate thing to say. Better answer: YES, INHALING SMOKE IS VERY BAD FOR YOU NO MATTER WHAT ELSE IS IN IT AND YOU SHOULD DO EVERYTHING YOU CAN TO AVOID IT IF YOU CANthelalocal.orgEastside residents say fire smoke is making them sickOfficials say the air is not dangerous, but residents living near the Lineage facility say they are feeling sick and questioning why evacuation orders have not been issued. 524163
Daveed Kapoor @daveedkapoor.bsky.social · 24/06/2026hopefully this is not replicated in the 2028 Olympic activations. we have so many dead zones that should be activated: roadways, parking lots, empty commercial spaces. Don't take existing good space and ruin it 000
Daveed Kapoor @daveedkapoor.bsky.social · 24/06/2026terrible that some temporary world cup activations are ruining already existing great LA places. This pop up World Cup store consumes all the dining space in front of Villa's Tacos in Grand Central Market - would be better placed in a nearby dead-zone like the street out front. 120
Daveed Kapoor @daveedkapoor.bsky.social · 23/06/2026smells like Ammonia, Hydrogen Fluoride, and toxic metals (e.g., lead, chromium, arsenic, etc.) 000
Daveed Kapoor @daveedkapoor.bsky.social · 23/06/2026air in elysian park stinging this morning, not showing up on the air monitors but smells like chemicals, and hurts the eyes. lafd.org/news/boyle-h... 100
Reposted by Daveed KapoorMark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 22/06/2026'A lost interview (1995) with award-winning writer #OctaviaButler and filmmaker @juliedash.bsky.social at her home in Los Angeles for Marc Boothe, Digital Diaspora, and "40 Acres & A Microchip" the first Black cyberspace conference in the UK for digerati of African descent.' vimeo.com/163190768vimeo.comJulie Dash interviews Octavia Butler (1995)A lost interview (1995) with award-winning Sy Fy writer Octavia Butler and filmmaker Julie Dash at her home in Los Angeles for Marc Boothe, Digital Diaspora, and "40 Acres & A Microchip" the first bla... 120299
Daveed Kapoor @daveedkapoor.bsky.social · 16/06/2026"a permission system engineered to maximize objections" is an exact description of our approvals process for new infrastructure www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...latimes.comContributor: The Wilshire subway took 46 years. Future projects should skip the decades of objectionsCalifornia can't afford to entertain lawsuits and stalling by local entities. Transit, like housing, is too important to let NIMBYs interfere. 010
Daveed Kapoor @daveedkapoor.bsky.social · 15/06/2026this is emblematic of why we don't call the cops when there is danger. i don't want myself or one of my neighbors (or one of my neighbors' pets) to die or get arrested. if there is real danger i trust my neighbors more than LAPD to help diffuse/pacify the situation 011
Daveed Kapoor @daveedkapoor.bsky.social · 15/06/2026been practicing architecture in city of LA since 2000. it was difficult then. insane that it is even harder now. every 'make it easier' reform has made it harder to build. the planning department keeps complexifying the code in their effort to make it simpler. &bldg code keeps getting harder 020
Daveed Kapoor @daveedkapoor.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Nooooooo! Just learned that Lorcan died. Hopefully his firm can live on. Some of the best multi family architecture in Los Angeles. RIP 000
Daveed Kapoor @daveedkapoor.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Some plan checkers have started using AI to generate their plan review comments, generating the most infinite/cumbersome list of plan check comments, most completely irrelevant and non-standard. But we as architects still have to respond to all this nonsense. This is out of control, and dumb 020
Daveed Kapoor @daveedkapoor.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Apparently my tap card expired yesterday, I learned as I boarded the 45 bus on broadway just now. Lost $10. Never buying a tap card again, good riddance @metrolosangeles.bsky.social 000
Daveed Kapoor @daveedkapoor.bsky.social · 09/06/2026none of this extra bureaucratic complexity makes better los angeles a better place. it makes building a house or operating a business impossible to afford. 010
Daveed Kapoor @daveedkapoor.bsky.social · 09/06/2026la city planning department keeps making all of their processes more difficult and more expensive. they continually add more layers of interfaces, extra paperwork, extra processes, more complexity. it is out of control. 101
Daveed Kapoor @daveedkapoor.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Thanks! Yeah I registered the cards and still couldn’t get the value back.was a while back have not had any problems withmost recent card. They are definitely not getting rid of TAP and I’ll run my cards down to zero. Maybe will keep using tap if metro gets more $ + I do like the collectible cards 110
Daveed Kapoor @daveedkapoor.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Good point, but wonder if it’s true when you consider how expensive tap card infrastructure including 3rd party contractor that manages it - I would have to ask someone who knows more about this, curious to learn. I have been burned by tap cards failing and losing my stored value, so won’t miss them 100
Daveed Kapoor @daveedkapoor.bsky.social · 22/05/2026cool, didnt know you were working down there. lots of good sinaloan food in Paramount as well. the taproom is not my aesthetic creation, but we love these guys, handled their architectural plans and helped navigate all the bureaucratic hurdles. been trying to get Ray a taproom for years 100
Daveed Kapoor @daveedkapoor.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Finally can tap a credit card to pay for @metrolosangeles.bsky.social !! No more tap cards! Now I can actually take visitors on the metro or bus without the horror/waste of getting everyone a separate tap card or trying pay cash. This is so excellent 2172
Daveed Kapoor @daveedkapoor.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Excited to have helped Ray Ricky Rivera finally open a taproom for his Norwalk Brewing Co., & this is even better because it a joint venture woth the delicious Horchateria Rio Luna laist.com/news/food/pa...laist.comParamount finally has a craft beer taproom. It's Latino-owned and built for the communityMexican Monk Brewhouse opens in a city that's over 80% Latino and has never had a space like it. 110
Daveed Kapoor @daveedkapoor.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Daveed Kapoor on "Concrete Utopia", cars as suits, and the Federal Highway Administration. franknewsus.substack.com/p/the-rubric...franknewsus.substack.comThe Rubric Already ExistsDaveed Kapoor on "Concrete Utopia", cars as suits, and the Federal Highway Administration. 010
Daveed Kapoor @daveedkapoor.bsky.social · 03/02/2026the death of “the street” as social space why so many conduct their social lives online 021
Daveed Kapoor @daveedkapoor.bsky.social · 18/11/2025i think i just got suspended from instagram for declaring a war on cars 59911
Daveed Kapoor @daveedkapoor.bsky.social · 23/10/2025open season at Echo Park lake? Californians can now shoot swans year-round without a license www.dailybreeze.com/2025/10/22/c...dailybreeze.comCalifornians can now shoot swans year-round without a licenseThe mute swan is a large, voracious and territorial bird that competes for resources with native waterfowl. 030
Daveed Kapoor @daveedkapoor.bsky.social · 18/09/2025'Mast' about many things we can #shadeLA spanning shade cloth between existing utility poles this was a operable shade cloth sail on ropes could deploy all over LA shade overhead horizontally, or vertically to block low sun blaze 050
Daveed Kapoor @daveedkapoor.bsky.social · 12/09/2025“That tree is east los to me” Blood In, Blood Out El Pino 030
Daveed Kapoor @daveedkapoor.bsky.social · 29/08/2025no more horrible hallways! my rallying cry for single stair. double loaded placeless internal hallways are what make U$ apartment buildings crappy. & unsafe as all doors look the same and it's hard to easily discern where the exit doors are. + these hallways do no foster community amongst residents 110
Daveed Kapoor @daveedkapoor.bsky.social · 28/08/2025The carved a hundred feet elevation out of Mt Lookout for Dodger stadium, so we must enjoy it. Like the amphitheater carved into the side of Athens acropolis 150
Daveed Kapoor @daveedkapoor.bsky.social · 28/08/2025@dodgersbot.bsky.social @dodgers-team.bsky.social giveaways should be handed out as guests leave so they don’t have to carry around all this mass during the game 030
Daveed Kapoor @daveedkapoor.bsky.social · 22/08/2025holy smokes i want to go to this spot karachibbqtonight.com via @lataco.bsky.social lataco.com/weekend-eats... 020
Daveed Kapoor @daveedkapoor.bsky.social · 20/08/2025We need international armed struggle in order to end the genocide in Palestine 110
Daveed Kapoor @daveedkapoor.bsky.social · 19/08/2025We need a museum of Los Angeles History @lahistory.bsky.social Housed in the Pico House Or otherwise 000
Daveed Kapoor @daveedkapoor.bsky.social · 06/08/2025RIP Carl Anderson. Thank you for the singing lessons - favorite voice of all time www.latimes.com/archives/la-...latimes.comCarl Anderson, 58; Actor Played Judas in 'Jesus Christ Superstar'Carl Anderson, a balladeer and actor known for his rich, expressive voice, whose greatest success during a three-decade career was playing Judas in the landmark musical "Jesus Christ Superstar," died ... 000
