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The scale of this architectural boom is hard to fathom in LA’s sprawl, but a sense of its impact can already be gathered from recently completed and just-about-to-open projects including Maltzan’s One Santa Fe, a combination of residential architecture and urbanism in the Arts District, KPF’s re-skinning of the Petersen Automotive Museum, and SOM’s Federal Courthouse, a glass cube that recently topped out in Downtown LA’s Civic Center. And, of course, The Broad.