L.A. Architects Receive 16 Awards for Design

A wide range of projects, from a modernistic home in Brentwood to a major convention center in Nara, Japan, won top honors at the 1992 design awards program of the Los Angeles chapter of the American Institute of Architects.

Sixteen honor awards, merit awards and citations were given to Los Angeles area architects in the categories of architecture, interior architecture and unbuilt works selected from more than 230 entries completed within the last two years.

Venice-based architect Steven Ehrlich won two honor awards for architecture, one for the Shatto Recreation Center for the City of Los Angeles and the other for his residential entry in a modernistic style that according to jurors represents “an amalgam of Schindler and Neutra nudging Los Angeles Modernism into the 21st Century.”

Kanner Architects of Los Angeles won for its multi-unit Harvard Apartments, seen by the jury as “Swiss cheese and bologna on white, sandwiching L.A.’s streetside experiences of modernism and funk.”

Other honor award winners in the architecture category included Ellerbe Becket of Santa Monica for the Department of Water & Power’s central distribution headquarters, and Frank O. Gehry & Associates of Santa Monica for EuroDisney’s Festival Disney in Marne-La-Valee, France.

Honor awards for interior architecture were won by Studio Bauton of Los Angeles for the Bad Animal Recording Studio in Seattle, and Keating Mann Jernigan Rottet for the Brayton Temporary Showroom in the Pacific Design Center.

Unbuilt projects selected for honor awards went to Harry C. Wolf of Los Angeles for his 747 S. Flower St. Tower project and Morphosis Architects of Santa Monica for its design of West Hollywood’s Yuzen Vintage Car Museum.

The jury included Rob Willington Quigley of San Diego, the only West Coast architect on the panel, Merrill Elam of Atlanta, Harvey B. Gantt of Charlotte, N.C., Margaret McCurry of Chicago and James Stewart Polshek of New York.

The judges were unanimous in their praise of the quality of public buildings in Los Angeles, such as those commissioned by the departments of Parks and Recreation and of Water and Power and the Cultural Affairs Commission.

1992 AIA/LA DESIGN AWARDS PROGRAM HONOR AWARDS

Project Category: Architecture Location: Department of Water and Power central distribution headquarters, administration and warehouse building, Los Angeles

Industrial Architect: Ellerbe Becket Inc., Santa Monica

Contractor: Moran Construction

Owner/client: Department of Water and Power

*Project Category:

Architecture

Location: Los Angeles Recreation and Community Center

Architect: Steven Ehrlich AIA architect, Venice

Contractor: Mallcraft Inc.

Owner/client: Department of Recreation and Parks, City of Los Angeles

*Project Category:

Architecture

Location: Canyon (Schulman) Residence, Brentwood, single family residence

Architect: Steve Ehrlich, AIA architect, Venice

Contractor: Winter-Schram Associates

Owner/client: anonymous

*Project Category: Architecture Location: Harvard Apartments Los Angeles, multi-unit housing

Architect: Kanner Architects, Los Angeles

Contractor: Jordan Ostrow

Owner/client: Jordan Ostrow

*Project Category:

Architecture

Location: Festival Disney Marne-La-Vallee, France, recreational

Architect: Frank O. Gehrey and Associates, Inc., Santa Monica

Contractor: Bovis-Copra S.A.

Owner/client: EuroDisney/Disney Development Co.

*Project Category: Interior Architecture Project Location: Bad Animal Recording Studio Seattle, Wash., commercial.

Architect: Studio Bauton, Los Angeles.

Contractor: Ron J. Dedinas Inc.

Owner/client: Steve Lawson Productions/Heart

*Project Category: Interior Architecture Location: Brayton Temporary Showroom Pacific Design Center

Architect: Keating Mann Jernigan Rottet, Los Angeles

Owner/client: Brayton International

*Project Category: Unbuilt Project Location: 747 S. Flower St. Tower, Los Angeles, commercial office

Architect: Harry C. Wolf, FAIA Wolf, architects, Los Angeles

Owner/client: Ahmanson Commercial Development Co.

*Project Category: Unbuilt Project Project/location: Yuzen Vintage Car Museum, West Hollywood, mixed use

Architect: Morphosis Architects, Santa Monica

Owner/client: Yuzen & Hill Co. Ltd.

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Merit Award

* Project Category:

Architecture Project

Location: Tarzana House, Tarzana, single family dwelling

Architect: Konig Eizenberg Architecture Inc., Santa Monica

Contractor: Roman Janczek

Owner/client: Bruce Shragg

*Project Category:

Architecture Project

Location: Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, North Hollywood pump station, industrial

Architect: Delon Hampton Associates, chartered architects Barton Phelps & Associates, associated architects for design, Los Angeles

Contractor: Dillingham Construction Co.

Owner/client: Los Angeles Department of Water and Power

*Project Category: Architecture Project Location: Family Service of Santa Monica

Architect: William Adams and Mary Sager, Santa Monica

Contractor: Ed Curnel

Owner/client: Family Service of Santa Monica

*Project Category:

Architecture Project

Location: Warner Brothers Children’s Center, Burbank, child care

Architect: Pios Pearson, Inc., Los Angeles

Contractor: Pacific Southwest Development Inc.

Owner/client: Warner Brothers Inc.

*Project Category: Architecture Project Location: the Montana Collection, Santa Monica, commercial/retail

Architect: Kanner Architects, Los Angeles

Contractor: Artner Construction

Owner/client: 14th partners/Lawrence Taylor

*Project Category:

Unbuilt Project

Location: Nara Convention Center, Nara, Japan, competition entry

Architect: Eric Owen Moss architects, Culver City

Owner/client: Fred Sands

*Project Category: Unbuilt Project Location: Urban Restructuring: the Greenway Concept for Metropolitan Los Angeles, a new social undertaking proposal

Architect: Johnson Fain and Pereira Associates, Los Angeles