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AIA|LA Announces 2016 Design Award Winners!

Los Angeles, CA – October 25, 2016 – The American Institute of Architects Los Angeles (AIA|LA) announced the winners of its prestigious 2016 Design Awards program Monday night, October 24, 2016, at an evening celebrating the achievements of recipients.

Selected by a jury of distinguished architects based across the United States and conversant in the field’s potential at national and international levels, the AIA|LA Design Awards honor design excellence in some of the most significant completed projects in the country at this time. The caliber of work submitted and volume of submissions make the program amongst the most competitive AIA chapters host.

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Winners of the competition’s counterpart, the AIA|LA Next LA awards, bestowed on as yet unbuilt commissions, were also announced. These dynamic solutions for our future were selected by an esteemed multi-disciplinary jury which included prestigious architects, a noted academic, and the Los Angeles Times architecture critic.

This year saw the AIA|LA launch its first COTE LA awards, given to projects that further and/or demonstrate achievement in the implementation of sustainability features. These winning projects were selected by experts and innovators in the field, who noted performance, systems integration and other key elements in addition to design.

2016 AIA|LA Presidential Honorees, recognizing individuals who have re-defined the possibilities of design, produced meaningful bodies-of-work in an overall context, or contributed significantly to the profession and its practitioners, were bestowed by AIA|LA President Debra Gerod, FAIA, Partner, Gruen Associates.

Over five hundred attendees took in the proceedings at the historic Palace Theatre on Broadway in Los Angeles. The stunning and storied venue, the first Los Angeles building to install fire sprinklers, served as reminder of historic contributions to the field over time and Los Angeles' re-burgeoning Historic Core. Tom Gilmore, the developer at the center of this resurgence, welcomed guests from the stage to begin the evening. While Award winners, Presidential Honorees, and Design Award attendees, mingled throughout the venue during the après-party and dinner.

Design Award and Next LA awards are given in three classifications: Honor, Merit and Citation, with Honor being the highest category.

Completed projects, located anywhere, that are designed by AIA members from firms based in the LA area, and architecture constructed in Los Angeles by any AIA member, no matter their base of operations, are eligible for submission for Design Awards.

For high quality images of winners and for more information about the event, please call, 213-639-0763 or email tibby@aialosangeles.org


2016 AIA|LA DESIGN AWARD WINNERS

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HONOR AWARDS

Shanghai Tower
(Shanghai, China)
Gensler

Broad Museum
(Los Angeles, CA)
Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with Gensler

The Six - Affordable Housing for formerly Homeless and Disabled Veterans
(Los Angeles, CA)
Brooks + Scarpa

MERIT AWARDS

Samsung American Headquarters
(San Jose, CA)
NBBJ

Rajeunir Black Caviar Palm Desert
(Palm Desert, CA)
Studio Jantzen / O-S-A

Embassy of the US Helsinki, Finland
(Helsinki, Finland)
Moore Ruble Yudell Architects and Planners

IVRV House
(Los Angeles, CA)
SCI-Arc

The Barbarian Group
(New York, NY)
Clive Wilkinson Architects

MirrorHouse
(Los Angeles, CA)
XTEN Architecture

Affordable Infill in the Inner City
(South Los Angeles, CA)
Lehrer Architects LA

Montee Karp
(Malibu, CA)
Patrick Tighe Architecture

CITATION AWARDS

Bi(H)OME
(Los Angeles, CA)
Kevin Daly Architects

LAX CTA Entrance Phase 1
(Los Angeles, CA)
AECOM, Los Angeles Design Studio

Pure Tension Pavilion
(Milan, Bologna, Venice and Rimini (Italy), Moscow (Russia), Palm Springs (US))
SDA | Synthesis Design + Architecture

The Bram Goldsmith Theatre at the Wallis
(Beverly Hills, CA)
Studio Pali Fekete Architects [SPF:a]

The Gores Group Headquarters
(Beverly Hills, CA)
Belzberg Architects

CJ Corporation Blossom Park
(Gwanggyo, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea)
Yazdani Studio of CannonDesign

MU77
(Los Angeles, CA)
Arshia Architects

Loyola Marymount University Life Science Building
(Los Angeles, CA)
CO Architects

Pomona, Studio Art Hall
(Claremont, CA)
wHY Architecture

Roberts Pavilion, Claremont McKenna College
(Claremont, CA)
John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects

CJ Corporation Blossom Park (Interiors)
(Gwanggyo, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea)
CannonDesign


2016 AIA|LA NEXT LA AWARDS

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MERIT

1st & Broadway Civic Center Park
(Los Angeles, CA)
Eric Owen Moss Architects

CITATION

WATERshed
(Los Angeles, CA)
Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects

Victory Healthcare
(Los Angeles, CA)
P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S

City on a City
(Los Angeles, CA)
Zellner Naecker Architects

The Mountains
(Dubai United Arab Emirates)
AECOM


2016 AIA|LA COTE LA AWARDS

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MERIT

LAPD Metropolitan Division Facility
(Los Angeles, CA)
Perkins+Will

Pico Branch Library
(Santa Monica, CA)
Koning Eizenberg Architecture

The Courtyard at La Brea
(Los Angeles, CA)
John V. Mutlow Architects & Patrick Tighe Architecture

CITATION

La Kretz Innovation Campus
(Los Angeles, CA)
John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects

The Resort at Playa Vista
(Playa Vista, CA)
Rios Clementi Hale Studios


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