Curved glass blocks, white stuccoed volumes and courtyards are strung together to form this new community facility for Los Angeles' LGBTQ community, designed by architecture firms Leong Leong and KFA.
The Anita May Rosenstein Campus marks a major expansion for the centre, which offers programmes and services to 42,000 lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (or queer) youth and seniors.

The New York- and LA-based studio, founded by brothers Dominic and Christopher Leong, and Killefer Flammang Architects won a competitions to design the 183,700-square-foot (17,066-square-metre) campus.
Located on Hollywood's Santa Monica Boulevard and North McCadden Place, the new complex faces the LGBT Centre's The Village at Ed Gould Plaza, which comprises movie theatres, art galleries, offices and meeting spaces. The new complex provides a youth centre, a drop-in centre, a youth academy, career services, a senior centre, and a dormitory to sleep up to 100 homeless people, all housed within a series of white stucco and glass volumes.

"It's a sanctuary space but also an institutional interface to the city of Los Angeles," Dominic Leong told Dezeen. "The design is really trying to negotiate those two types of presence within the city, and we really thought of the project as a kind of mosaic of a multiplicity of identities."
"There's this horizontal plinth that's very porous and on top of that are these floating, more sculptural volumes that give a s...