El Centro del Pueblo in the Echo Park district of Los Angeles is the kind of building block that every inner-city community needs: a nonprofit institution, run by dedicated professionals and volunteers, which weans youths away from drugs and gangs by infusing them with a sense of hope and self-esteem. Thanks to generous grants from the S. Mark Taper Foundation and other donors, it has recently acquired a new home, a 1000sqm warehouse inventively remodelled by Fernando Vazquez, a Uruguayan-born architect who is constantly bringing high drama to simple projects in his adopted city.
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