"Good Design is Good Business"
Wednesday, May 17, 2006, by Marissa Gluck

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Recognizing that masturbatory awards ceremonies generate attention, the Los Angeles Business Council honored 19 local architecture projects and design teams today, across 11 categories. Thus we're happy to oblige with the requisite media attention they're so eager for. The Palme d'Or Grand Prize was (deservedly) won by Machado and Silvetti Associates for their renovation of the Getty Villa. The awards aim to recognize projects that "improve the quality of architecture and enhance the urban fabric of Los Angeles." We'll leave aside the irony for a moment that a group of businessmen are bestowing awards for architectural merit, and simply marvel at the implicit suggestion that these businessmen actually understand the economic impact of "destination" architecture. Bilbao effect, anyone?

After the jump, the winners.

Winners of the 36th Annual Los Angeles Architectural Awards are:

  • 9900 Wilshire Boulevard: New Pacific Realty: Richard Meier & Partners Architects LLP (Category: Un-built)
  • Ashes and Snow, LLC: Shigeru Ban: Gensler: The RMS Group (Category: Public Use: Civic, Community Impact)
  • The Dimensional Forum: Dimensional Fund Advisors Inc.: Barton Pehlps & Associates,
  • Architects and Planners: Interscape Construction, Inc. (Category: Interiors)
  • The Geffen Playhouse: Ronald Frink Architects: Morley Construction (Category: Preservation)
  • The Getty Villa: J. Paul Getty Trust: Machado and Silvetti Associates: Studio Pali Fekete architects: Morley Construction Company (Category: Public Use: Civic, Grand Prize)
  • Haworth -- LA Showroom: Perkins + Will: Taslimi Corporation (Category: Interiors)
  • Herb Alpert Educational Village: New Visions Foundation: Koning Eizenberg Architecture: Morley Builders (Category: Un-built)
  • House on Blue Jay Way: Jeff and Randy Beuth: Studio Pali Fekete Architects: William Kent Development (Category: Housing Award: Single Family)
  • Jai House: Jai Interiors: Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects: Ocean Development (Category: Housing Award: Single Family)
  • Johnson Fain: Minardos Construction and Associates (Category: Renovated Buildings)
  • LA Live: AEG: RTKL Associates, Inc.: Clark Construction (Category: Unbuilt)
  • Lehrer Architects Studio: Lehrer Architects (Category: Renovated Buildings)
  • Los Angeles Public Library, Hyde Park -- Miriam Matthews Branch: Los Angeles Public Library: Hodgetts + Fung Design and Architecture: Royal Construction Corporation (Category: Public Use: Civic)
  • RAND Corporation Headquarters: RAND Corporation: DMJM Design: Turner Construction Company (Category: New Buildings)
  • Santa Monica Public Library: City of Santa Monica: Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planners: Morley Construction Company (Category: Sustainability)
  • Sunset + Vine: Bond Companies: Nakada & Associates, Inc.: Charles Pankow Builders, LTD. (Categories: Mixed-Use, Landscaping)
  • TreePeople Center for Community Forestry Conference Center: TreePeople: Marmol Radziner + Associates: PCL Construction Services, Inc. (Category: Sustainability)
  • Vertical House: Lorcan O'Herlihy and Cornelia O'Herlihy: Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects: Above Board Construction (Category: Housing Award: Single Family)
  • Views at 270: Views at 270, LP: M2A Milofsky Michali & Cox Architects: Benchmark Contractors, Inc. (Category: Housing Award: Single Family)


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    Comments (4 extant)

    1.

    To give any award to that Bond Co. monstrosity at Sunset & Vine invalidates the entire list as I see it, yet then also give an award to LA Live, a project just barely under construction - will somebody please share what they are smokin?!

    By carter at May 17, 2006 5:48 PM

    2.

    I am in complete agreement! I dread ever having to go sunset and vine and don't understand it. I don't think the tourist do either. You see them in front of it but if you go in it's empty.

    By dog named tonka at May 18, 2006 8:02 AM

    3.

    What's to understand? Sunset & Vine is merely retail on the ground level with apartments above it. Perhaps it's not perfect in design and layout, but considering all the dreck that has otherwise dominated Hollywood for decades, including its vast array of ratty stores, ugly parking lots and schizoid derelicts, I'll take it.

    By Melody at May 18, 2006 10:34 AM

    4.

    I agree Melody. Let's all remember the NIGHTMARE of a strip mall that was on that corner before Sunset + Vine was built. This complex is a huge improvement. It's far far far from perfrect, but really, anything that's not a discount t-shirt shop in Hollywood is an improvement.

    By Gary at May 18, 2006 11:36 AM




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