Restaurant Design Award Winners 2010 announced at Dwell On Design - AIA/Los Angeles

Congratulations to all the winners!

RESTAURANT CATEGORY
Jury Award Winner
South Beverly Grill
Beverly Hills, CA
Assembledge+ & Brad Dunning
Images: Michael Weschler

People's Choice Award Winner
Choice Market
Brooklyn, NY
Evan Douglis Studio
Images: Michael Moran

CAFE CATEGORY
Jury Award Winner 1
Intelligentsia Venice
Venice, CA
MASS Architecture + Design
Images: Edward Duarte

Jury Award Winner 2
People's Choice Award Winner
Modmarket
Boulder, CO
Roth + Sheppard Architects
Images: Raul J. Garcia

BAR/LOUNGE CATEGORY
Jury Award Winner
Press Club
San Francisco, CA
Baldauf Catton von Eckartsberg Architects
Images: Rien van Rijthoven

People's Choice Award Winner
The Varnish
Los Angeles, CA
Kelly Architects & Ricki Kline
Images: Francisco Arcaute

See all the nominees here
FORM gallery here

Mobius LA 2010 On-Site Guide, June 24-26th, Digital Version

AIA/Los Angeles' Design Education Conference at Dwell On Design This Week

Click on the digital pub for FULL screen view. Guides will be available on-site at Mobius LA 2010.
Click on the links and learn more about the sponsors and supporters of Mobius LA 2010.
 

VERGE: The AIA|LA 2010 2x8 Student Exhibit

The American Institute of Architects Los Angeles is pleased to announce the opening of the 2010 2x8 Student Exhibition on Saturday June 26, 2010 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. This year’s exhibition will be held in conjunction with Dwell on Design, the west coast’s largest modern design event, and Mobius LA.

2x8 is an annual exhibition sponsored by the AIA|LA, showcasing exemplary student work from architecture and design institutions throughout California. Each of the participating academic programs selects two projects that exemplify its core vision. The students’ design work will be judged by a noteworthy panel of architects and designers, who will then announce the winners at the exhibition opening and convene in a forum to discuss the successful work.

AIA/LA and APA form railLA to promote the California High-Speed Rail Project

The Los Angeles chapters of the American Institute of Architects (AIA|LA) and the American Planning Association (APA), along with community members, business leaders, local governments and universities formed railLA to promote the California High-Speed Rail project and help advance a change in Los Angeles’ car-centric lifestyle.

Long considered the capital of American car culture and suburban sprawl, Los Angeles is the ideal location to illustrate the positive impacts of high-speed rail on the environment, traffic congestion, and sustainable urban design and planning. By creating a realistic vision of the opportunities that high-speed rail will bring, railLA will leverage private sector and grassroots support to ensure timely and efficient implementation of this statewide project with Los Angeles’ Union Station as its hub.

Launching June 1: Call for Ideas and Venues
The Call for Ideas, commencing June 1, 2010, will be an open, international call to all interested parties to “think big” on the broad topics of high-speed rail and its implementation in Southern California. The Call is intended to create a wealth of information about high-speed rail from around the world to be exhibited at selected venues through a separate Call for Venues. Entrants are encouraged to submit new and existing ideas, concepts, designs, plans, papers, videos, models, and other studies.

A select group of submissions will be showcased at an opening exhibit in Downtown Los Angeles later this summer, on the railLA website, and in various publications. A $2500 prize purse for the top five submissions will be announced at an opening exhibit on July 29, 2010. The deadline for submissions is July 13, 2010.

AIA/LA Announces the 2010 Restaurant Design Awards Nominees

The AIA|LA’s Restaurant Design Awards (RDA) honor excellence in restaurant design. The competition is open to all individuals and practices for both restaurant owners and architects/designers.

Restaurant Category Finalists

• Char No. 4 (Brooklyn, NY)
• Choice Restaurant (Brooklyn, NY)
• Gjelina Restaurant (Venice, CA)
• South Beverly Grill (Beverly Hills, CA)

Café Category Finalists

• Café de Leche (Los Angeles, CA)
• Intelligentsia Venice (Venice, CA)
• Mod Market (Boulder, CO)
• Sandwiched (New York, NY)
• URBNMRKT (Los Angeles, CA)

Bar/Lounge Category Finalists

• Las Perlas (Los Angeles, CA)
• Press Club (San Francisco, CA)
• The Varnish (Los Angeles, CA)

The People's Choice Award is back this year by popular demand. AIA|LA invites fans of haute design and good cuisine to vote for your favorite finalist in each of the three categories. VOTING IS NOW OPEN and closes on Monday June 21st at 12 noon (PST).

Winners of the Jury and People's Choice Awards will be announced at the RDA Ceremony on Friday June 25th in conjunction with Mobius LA on the Dwell on Design expo floor at the LA Convention Center, so be sure to register today for Mobius LA.