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Architects: Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects
Location: Brentwood, California, USA
Project Team: Lorcan O’Herlihy (Principal), Pierre De Angelis (PM), Banu Ataman
Client: Dr. Sascha Jovanovic
Project Area: 3,700 sq ft
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Courtesy of LOHA

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Formosa 1140

We are thrilled to announce that Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects (LOHA) will be receiving the American Institute of Architects Los Angeles Chapter’s (AIA|LA), Firm of the Year Award for 2010. The formal announcement is expected to be released in July. The AIA|LA Firm of the Year Award is given annually and recognizes a practice that consistently has produced distinguished architecture.

Over the years, LOHA projects have won a combined 18 national and local AIA awards, including the most recent AIA National Housing Award for Formosa 1140. You can see all the projects we’ve featured by LOHA here, including our interview with Lorcan O’Herlihy.

© Frank Oudeman

Architects: Kanner Architects & Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects
Location: Bay Area, California, USA
Kanner Architects Team: Stephen Kanner (FAIA, Principal), Damian LeMons (Project Director), Mel de Leon, John Hixson, Adriana Molina
Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects Team: Lorcan O’Herlihy (FAIA, Principal), Donnie Schmidt (Project Director), Sabrina Schmidt-Wetekam, Alex Morassut, Claudia Lugo, Monica Ream
Project Area: 120,000 sq ft
Project Year: 2008
Photographs: Frank Oudeman, Nicolas O.S. Marques, Donnie Schmidt

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Back in June, we told you about Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects and Bruce Mau Design being awarded the Big Blue Bus Architectural and Branding Package by the city of Santa Monica.

Today, we have news they are ready to begin the next phase of the bus stop redevelopment project. The Santa Monica-inspired conceptual design, called “The Blue Spots,” is clean and unobtrusive, and was designed to enhance the city’s ambiance, which will eventually replace or enhance all 360 bus stops around the city. The structures will be flexible and able to adapt to various orientations and site specific conditions around the city. The goal is to have the first new stops in place by December 2010.

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The Los Angeles based Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects (LOHA) and Bruce Mau Design (BMD) have just been awarded the Big Blue Bus Architectural and Branding Package by the city of Santa Monica.  For over the past eighty years, the agency has provided organized and helpful services to all in the city.  The new project will provide the two internationally recognized firms with the opportunity to redevelop the agency by exploring how public transportation has the potential to cultivate, enrich and connect the community.

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Architects: LOHA Architects
Location: West Hollywood, California, USA
Principal in Charge: Lorcan O’Herlihy
Project Team: Pierre De Angelis (PD), Sabrina Schmidt-Wetekam, Alex Morassut
Client: Whitecap Development, LLC
Project year: 2008
Constructed Area: 2,230 sqm
Program: 8 apartments
Photographs: Tate Lown

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Architects: LOHA Architects
Location: West Hollywood, California, USA
Principal in Charge: Lorcan O’Herlihy
Project Team: Kevin Southerland, Tracy Smith, Franka Diehnelt
Contractor: Archetype, Inc.
Client: Habitat Group Los Angeles, LLC
Project year: 2006
Photographs: Lawrence Anderson

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Architects: LOHA Architects
Location: Mill Valley, California, USA
Principal in Charge: Lorcan O’Herlihy
Project Manager: Kuo-Huei Tsai
Project Team: Michael Poirier, Juan Diego Gerscovich, Su Yingzi
Structural Engineer: Paul Francheschi
Client: Tony and Rachel Sherman
Project year: 2005
Constructed Area: 386 sqm
Photographs: © Tim Griffith

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Architects: LOHA Architects
Location: Burbank, California, USA
Principal in Charge: Lorcan O’Herlihy
Project Team: Pierre de Angelis (PM), Mark Mendez
Client: Authentic Entertainment, Inc.
Project year: 2008
Constructed Area: 1,393 sqm
Photographs: Douglas Hill

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Architects: LOHA Architects
Location: Venice, California, USA
Principal in Charge: Lorcan O’Herlihy
Project Team: David Thompson, Kevin Tsai
Client: Lorcan O’Herlihy & Cornelia Hayes O’Herlihy
Project year: 2004
Constructed Area: 223 sqm
Photographs: LOHA

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A few weeks ago we had the chance to visit L.O.H.A. and interview Lorcan O’Herlihy in Los Angeles.

We visited Lorcan because we were very interested on his recent housing projects, which offer rich public spaces bringing back the “neighborhood” to central areas of Los Angeles, away from the suburbs.

It was interesting to hear his answer on the role of architects on contemporary society, and see a new contemporary lifestyle is materialized, addressing location, densities, materials, green strategies and community concepts, an architects response to current society issues.

You can see more on this on the residential projects by LOHA we featured earlier: Formosa 1140 and Habitat 825.

Architects: LOHA Architects
Location: West Hollywood, California, USA
Principal in Charge: Lorcan O’Herlihy
Project Team: Pierre De Angelis (PM), David Thompson, Franka Diehnelt
Client: Habitat Group Los Angeles, LLC
Contractor: Archetype, Inc.
Structure Engineer: Brian L. Cochran and Associate
Landscape: Katie Spitz & Associates
Program: 19 apartments
Project year: 2007
Constructed Area: 4,924 sqm
Photographs: LOHA

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Architects: LOHA Architects
Location: West Hollywood, California, USA
Principal in Charge: Lorcan O’Herlihy
Project Team: Katherine Williams (PM), Kevin Tsai, Evan Brinkman, Kevin Southerland
Client: Habitat Group Los Angeles, LLC
Project year: 2008
Constructed Area: 1,486 sqm
Area per unit: 140 sqm aprox.
Photographs: Lawrence Anderson

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