AIA|LA honors winners for 2017 Design Awards, Next LA, and COTE competitions

The AIA Los Angeles' yearly Design Awards honor architectural excellence, locally based architects and designers, and their contributions to the L.A. region. The 2017 cycle was no less competitive, attracting top-notch talent from the local architecture and design community. Competing projects (built anywhere in the world) are designed by AIA members from L.A.-area architecture firms, or are built in Los Angeles by any AIA member based anywhere in the world.

Last week at The Broad Stage in Santa Monica, AIA|LA honored the winners of the 2017 Design Awards, as well as winners for the 2017 Next LA Awards competition (unbuilt and to-be-constructed commissions) and AIA|LA COTE Awards (sustainability). Projects were awarded in three rankings: Honor, Merit and Citation. The 2017 AIA|LA Presidential Honorees were also announced.

Check out the list of this year's winners below.

AIA|LA DESIGN AWARDS 

HONOR

(cover image) New United States Courthouse (Los Angeles, CA)
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP

DESIGN AWARDS - MERIT

DESIGN AWARD - CITATION:

Helmut Lang Flagship Store (Los Angeles, CA)
Standard

Southern Utah Museum of Art (Cedar City, Utah)
Brooks + Scarpa 

South Los Angeles Pool Renovation (South Los Angeles, CA)
Lehrer Architects LA 

Sunset La Cienega Residences (West Hollywood, CA)
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP + Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects

Prototype | A True Starter Home (South Los Angeles, CA)
Lehrer Architects LA

The Salkin House (Los Angeles, CA)
Bestor Architecture 

Corner Pocket House (Manhattan Beach, CA)
Edward Ogosta Architecture 

Ayzenberg Group (Pasadena, CA)
Corsini Stark Architects

Platform (Culver City, CA)
Abramson Teiger Architects

Desert Palisades Guardhouse (Palm Springs, CA)
Studio AR&D Architects 

The Evelyn and Mo Ostin Music Center at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music (Los Angeles, CA)
Kevin Daly Architects

Rice University Moody Center for the Arts (Houston, TX)
Michael Maltzan Architecture, Inc. 

Saddle Peak Residence (Topanga, CA)
Sant Architects 

Mar Vista House Addition and Renovation (Los Angeles, CA)
Sharif, Lynch: Architecture

Next LA Awards

HONOR

Next LA - MERIT:

Next LA - CITATION:

St. Georges Church (Beirut, Lebanon)
PARALX 

A4H Office Building (Glendale, CA)
P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S 

Varna Library (Varna, Bulgaria)
XTEN Architecture 

Sberbank Technopark Moscow, Russia
Eric Owen Moss Architects 

Silver Lake Duplex (Los Angeles, CA)
Warren Techentin Architecture 

Twin Villa (Beijing, China)
Patrick TIGHE Architecture & John V Mutlow Architects 

Second House (Los Angeles, CA)
Freeland Buck

AIA|LA COTE

HONOR

AIA|LA COTE - CITATION:

UCLA Hitch Suites & Commons Building (Los Angeles, CA)
Steinberg 

Kaiser Permanente, Kraemer Radiation Oncology Center (Anaheim, CA)
Yazdani Studio of Cannon Design

2017 AIA|LA Presidential Honorees:

Gold Medal: Lawrence Scarpa, FAIA - Design Principal, Brooks + Scarpa
Emerging Practice: Design, Bitches - Catherine Johnson, AIA; Rebecca Rudolph, AIA
25-Year Award: Grand Central Market 1984 Restoration
Building Team: The Building team responsible for Wilshire Grand Center
Community Contribution: Southern California Chapter, National Organization of Minority Architects (SoCalNOMA)
Design Advocate, Builder: Steve Matt, Affiliate AIA|LA, Co-Founder, MATT Construction; and the late Paul Matt, Co-Founder, MATT Construction
Design Advocate, Developer: Mike Alvidrez, Chief Executive Officer, Skid Row Housing Trust
Educator Award: Dr. Douglas E. Noble, FAIA, Ph.D; Discipline Head, Building Science, Director of the Master of Building Science, University of Southern California, School of Architecture
Honorary AIA|LA: Tibby Rothman, Marketing Strategist, AIA|LA | journalist, writer, creative