EVENT: Central City Association LA's Architects Panel: Looking Up, Moving Forward - Thursday, Nov 18

Central City Association of Los Angeles presents:
CCA’s Architects Panel: Looking Up, Moving Forward

Thursday, November 18, 2010
11:00 a.m. Registration & Architectural Showcase
12:00 p.m. Luncheon & Panel Discussion
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Gabrielle Bullock, AIA, NOMA, LEED AP - Perkins + Will
Nathan B. Cherry, AIA, AICP, LEED AP - RTKL Associates Inc.
Robert Hale, FAIA - Rios Clementi Hale Studios
Alice Kimm, FAIA - John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects, Inc.
Mia Lehrer, FASLA - Mia Lehrer + Associates
Michael Maltzan, FAIA - Michael Maltzan Architecture
MODERATOR: Scott Johnson, FAIA - Johnson Fain
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Millennium Biltmore Hotel (Gold Room)
506 South Grand Avenue, Downtown Los Angeles

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NEXT LA Design Awards 2010 - Unbuilt Designs - Gallery

Los Angeles Awards Celebration - AIA/LA Design Awards, NEXT LA, AFLA's Design Green

FORM attended the annual AIA|LA Design Awards and Party last night at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The Design Awards party offered time for sharing architectural musings, as well as time to view the new Lynda and Stewart Resnick Exhibition Pavilion. Honoring excellence in work by Los Angeles Architects, this years award recipients were not revealed until the ceremony, which allowed for candid reactions from award winners.

In the NEXT LA category, which featured yet unbuilt designs, 20 jury awards were given in three classifications: Citation, Merit, and Honor. The Honor Awards were given to Michael W Folonis Architects for their UCLA 16th Street Outpatient Surgery and Oncology Center, as well as Your Building Here, for their Embassy of the Czech Republic in Washington DC. The same design from Your Building Here also received the Best in Show for the NEXT LA category.

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Maltzan and Burnett's Central Park at Playa Vista

The recently opened 7.9-acre Central Park at Playa Vista, a park that was designed by Michael Maltzan, Architecture in collaboration with the Office of James Burnett, features a fun-looking meringue-like event shell. The Argonaut has more on the park's opening, while Burnett's web site has a tidy description of the berm garden, the function lawn, the performance pavilion, the sports courts, and the children’s garden.

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Is Good Architecture a Luxury? - Lecture

A Zócalo/City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Event

Interviewed by Frances Anderton, Host of KCRW's DnA: Design and Architecture, Tuesday, July 6.

After launching his architecture career in Los Angeles over 20 years ago, Michael Maltzan quickly distinguished himself with socially conscious buildings that depart from the hulking luxury structures of celebrity architects. Maltzan visits Zócalo to talk about his work, whether good design can be affordable, and how architecture shapes our lives. For more information, or to make a reservation, click here.