Winners of the 38th Annual Los Angeles Architectural Awards

Today, the Los Angeles Business Council (LABC) honored the region’s finest architecture design projects, including the new Los Angeles Green Building Award, at the 38th Annual Los Angeles Architectural Awards. The Awards Program, which recognizes entire project teams (architects, developers and contractors), spotlighted the abundance of world-class architecture and sustainable development being built in Los Angeles today. Co-chairs Andy Cohen, FAIA, Executive Director, Gensler and Brooke Lauter, First Vice President - Corporate Communications, Arden Realty and key leadership from sponsoring companies presented the awards to more than 30 project teams across 17 architectural and building categories.

In a new award category this year, the LABC and Mayor Villaraigosa presented the first Los Angeles Green Building Award. This new category was created in order to properly acknowledge deserving projects that advance sustainable development in the city. Reinforcing Los Angeles’ growing prominence in the world of contemporary architecture, 2008 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate Jean Nouvel of France was the event keynote speaker.

“For all of us that believe that growth and business and sustainability and the environment can go hand in hand, our time is now,” said Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. “The demand in Los Angeles for building greener, more efficiently and earth-friendly has never been greater.”

10000 Santa Monica Boulevard, Ateliers Jean Nouvel

In addition, the LABC presented a special Community Impact Award to the City of Los Angeles along with the exceptional architects and contractors who together comprise the City of Los Angeles Green Building Program. This award recognizes the 56 active sustainable municipal building projects, one of the largest municipal building programs in the nation. The LABC especially commended the Bureau of Engineering as a green building leader in the City, for their management of 49 active LEED projects.

“It’s an honor for the city to be recognized for its environmental leadership,” said Los Angeles City Council President Eric Garcetti, who helped write the legislation that created the Green Building Program. “With the most expansive green building ordinance in the country, we are reducing our carbon footprint and acknowledging the advances of the green building industry.”

Hotel Ray, Belzberg Architects

The LABC Architectural Awards honor project teams whose developments improve the quality of architecture and enhance the urban fabric of Los Angeles. Awards were presented in 17 categories: Civic, Design Concept, Education, Green Building, Healthcare, Housing, Interiors, L.A. Pride, Landscape Architecture, Mixed-Use, New Buildings, Preservation, Renovated Buildings, Retail, Sustainability, Unbuilt and Grand Prize.

“For over a year, the LABC has worked with the City to develop a private sector green building program and today we congratulate those design teams who have voluntarily complied and are building sustainable in Los Angeles,” said Mary Leslie, President of the Los Angeles Business Council.

Edmunds.com, STUDIOS architecture

Also for the first time, the LABC sent a Call for Entries to local high schools and universities and awarded the Rising Star Award to a student team from UCLA. Famed architectural photographer Julius Shulman, a legend himself, honored the next generation and presented the award.

All awardees were selected by a thirteen-member jury of distinguished peers including architects, developers and contractors. To receive an award, projects must be located within Los Angeles County and completed during 2006 or 2007 (“design concept” and “unbuilt” categories exempt). The Broad Contemporary Art Museum at LACMA received the grand prize for developing and supporting the vision for a new LACMA campus. The team designed a series of buildings, connective walkways, grand stairways, open plazas, sculpture gardens, and public art, all in an effort to connect the campus and establish an environment that would unify the new exhibition of contemporary art, with the balance of their current collection.

Winners of the 38th Annual Los Angeles Architectural Awards:

ALLEN MATKINS
GREEN BUILDING AWARD

Built

Project: Luma
Architect: Ankrom Moisan Associated Architects
Contractor: Howard S. Wright Construction
Owner: The South Group

Unbuilt

Project: W Hollywood
Architect: HKS Architects, Inc.
Contractor: Webcor Builders
Owner: Gatehouse Capital

Design Concept

Project: Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust
Architect: Belzberg Architects
Owner: Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust

MACERICH
GRAND PRIZE

Project: Broad Contemporary Art Museum at LACMA
Design Architect: Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Executive Architect: Gensler
Contractor: MATT Construction Corp.
Owner: Los Angeles County Museum of Art

AEG
CIVIC AWARD

Project: Broad Contemporary Art Museum at LACMA
Design Architect: Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Executive Architect: Gensler
Contractor: MATT Construction Corp.
Owner: Los Angeles County Museum of Art

CRESA PARTNERS
DESIGN CONCEPT AWARD

Affordable Low-Rise

Project: Sierra Bonita Housing
Architect: Tighe Architecture
Owner: West Hollywood Community Housing Corporation

Residential High-Rise

Project: 10000 Santa Monica Boulevard
Design Architect: Ateliers Jean Nouvel
Executive Architect: House & Robertson Architects, Inc.
Owner: SunCal Companies

Commercial

Project: Hotel Ray
Architect: Belzberg Architects
Owner: The Ambrose Group

PERKINS + WILL
EDUCATION AWARD

Project: LAUSD Miguel Contreras Learning Complex
Architect: Johnson Fain
Owner: Los Angeles Unified School District
Contractor: Clark Construction

L.A. PRIDE AWARD

Project: Los Angeles Dodgers Stadium
Architect: HKS Architects, Inc.
Contractor: DPR Construction
Owner: The Los Angeles Dodgers

ARDEN REALTY
SUSTAINABILITY AWARD

Commercial

Project: Symantec - Culver City
Architect: HOK
Contractor: Webcor Builders
Owner: Symantec Corporation

Civic

Project: Santa Clarita Transit Maintenance Facility
Architect: HOK
Contractor: Intertex General Contractors, Inc.
Owner: City of Santa Clarita

Housing

Project: LivingHome
Architect: Ray Kappe Architects and Planners with LivingHomes
Contractor: Profile Structures INC - modular
Owner: LivingHomes

HOK/FIVEKILLER CONSULTING
HEALTHCARE AWARD

Project: Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
Design Architect: Pei Partnership Architects
Executive Architect: Perkins + Will
Consulting Architect: RBB Architects Inc.
Contractor: Tutor Saliba
Owner: UCLA Capital Programs

WATT COMPANIES
HOUSING AWARD

Single Family

Project: Altamira Residence
Architect: Marmol Radziner and Associates
Contractor: Jerico Development Inc.
Owner: Eric and Susanne Johnson

Project: House in West Los Angeles
Architect: Barton Myers Associates, Inc.
Contractor: Peck Homes

Project: Skyline
Architect: Belzberg Architects
Owner: Skyline LLC

Multi Family High-Rise

Project: Luma
Architect: Ankrom Moisan Associated Architects
Contractor: Howard S. Wright Construction
Owner: The South Group

Multi Family Low-Rise

Project: Habitat 825
Architect: Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects
Contractor: Archetype, Inc.
Owner: Habitat Group Los Angeles

HAWORTH
INTERIORS AWARD

Commercial

Project: Edmunds.com
Architect: STUDIOS architecture
Contractor: Warner Constructors Inc.
Owner: Edmunds.com

Civic

Project: Ahmanson Founders Room
Architect: Belzberg Architects
Contractor: SAS Construction
Owner: Music Center

Retail

Project: Paperfish Restaurant
Architect: Clive Wilkinson Architects
Contractor: Corporate Contractors
Owner: Patina Restaurant Group

SUNCAL COMPANIES
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AWARD

Civic

Project: Santa Monica Airport Park
Architect: ah’be landscape architects
Contractor: L.A. Engineering
Owner: City of Santa Monica

Residential

Project: South Park Streetscape
Architect: ah’be landscape architects
Contractor: Kato Landscape
Developer: The South Group Partnership
Owner: City of Los Angeles

G&C EQUIPMENT CORPORATION
MIXED-USE AWARD

Design Concept

Project: Hotel and Residences at LA Live
Architect: Gensler
Contractor: Webcor Builders
Owner: AEG

2000 AVENUE OF THE STARS/CENTURY PLAZA TOWERS
NEW BUILDINGS AWARD

Commercial

Project: Wallis Annenberg Research Center at the House Ear Institute
Architect: Perkins+Will
Contractor: Rudolph & Sletten
Owner: House Ear Institute

Civic

Project: Santa Monica College - Theatre Arts Building
Architect: Leo A Daly
Contractor: Turner Construction
Owner: Santa Monica College

MARSH
PRESERVATION AWARD

Project: Ennis House Rehabilitation
Architect: Eric Lloyd Wright & Wiehle-Carr, Associated Architects
Owner: Ennis House Foundation
Contractor: MATT Construction Corp.

CHICAGO TITLE
RENOVATED BUILDINGS AWARD

Residential

Project: The Biscuit Company Lofts
Architect: Aleks Istanbullu Architects
Owner: Linear City, LLC
Contractor: Linear City, LLC

Civic

Project: Cloverfield Services Center
Architect: Killefer Flammang Architects
Owner: OPCC
Contractor: Mackone Development, Inc.

GENSLER
RETAIL AWARD

Design Concept

Project: Santa Monica Place
Design Architect: Jerde Partnership
Executive Architect: Omniplan
Owner: Macerich
Contractor: Whiting Turner

UNISOURCE SOLUTIONS
UNBUILT AWARD

Civic

Project: Hollenbeck Replacement Police Station
Architect: AC Martin Partners
Owner: City of Los Angeles
Contractor: FTR International, Inc.

Commercial

Project: Red Building
Design Architect: Peli Clarke Pelli
Executive Architect: Gruen Associates
Owner: Pacific Red, LLC
Contractor: Jones & Jones