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OMA's Santa Monica Scheme Re-evaluated

September 08, 2013

In July the Office for Metropolitan Architecture's (OMA) competition proposal for a mixed-use development in the heart of downtown Santa Monica was recommended by City Council members after they "seemed genuinely wowed by OMA's theatrically-terraced design." City officials have since voted to re-evaluate the recommendation over concerns of a lack of affordable housing in the development, as well as issues "related to design [and] economics." They have also invited Related California, a team comprising of BIG, Koning Eizenberg Architecture, and Rios Clementi Hale Studios, to revise its original proposal that was shortlisted in March of this year.

OMA's Competition Proposal Selected in Santa Monica

July 23, 2013

Santa Monica’s City Staff has recommended OMA’s competition proposal for a mixed-use development in the heart of downtown Santa Monica. The building and surrounding plaza incorporates a civic plaza, cultural venue, retail, residences, offices and a boutique hotel. The City Staff selection panel praised OMA’s project for its iconic architecture and flexibility, saying it would “easily accommodate potential design modifications and adjust to market demand changes in the future.” Santa Monica’s City Council will review the recommendation on August 27th before the project formally proceeds in 2014.

The proposal’s plazas and terraces will add over 55,000 square feet of programmable open space. A cultural venue will sit inside of the building, anchored by office spaces for Santa Monica and greater Los Angeles’ growing tech industry. The project will be led by OMA’s New York office, headed by Shohei Shigematsu. He explained, “Our design provides residents, tourists, and entrepreneurs a dynamic new public realm – a stepped building that achieves a strong interaction between interior program and exterior environments.”

More images and information after the break…

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UCLA Outpatient Surgery and Oncology Center / Michael W. Folonis Architects

June 18, 2013

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Architects: Michael W. Folonis Architects
Area: 50000 ft²
Professionals: Vision Mechanical, Pamela Burton & Company, Levine Seegel Associates, Kaplan Gehring McCarroll Architectural Lighting, Arup, +1

Santa Monica Animation Studio / Gwynne Pugh Urban Studio

April 02, 2013

Architects: Gwynne Pugh Urban Studio
Area: 17000 ft²

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Gehry Designs Mixed-Use Tower for Downtown Santa Monica

March 04, 2013

Developers M. David Paul Associates and the Worthe Real Estate Group have commissioned Frank Gehry to design a mixed-use hotel and residential tower in his hometown of Santa Monica, California. The 22-story “Ocean Avenue Project” aims to stimulate the coastal city’s economy with street-level restaurant and retail space below a 125-room hotel and 22-unit condominium tower topped with a rooftop observation deck. As for accommodating the car-centric lifestyle of the West Coast, resident and visitor parking will be available in a three-story subterranean garage beneath the tower. In addition, the developers plan to integrate a 36,000 square foot museum campus that will add a cultural perk to the development just North of its two-acre site.

Although this project looks promising, the 244-foot, Gehry-esque tower is currently pending approval from the City. A vote by the end of March will decide its fate.

More images of the “Ocean Avenue Project” after the break...

Santa Monica Residence / Jendretzki

November 07, 2012

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Architects
Jendretzki
Location
Santa Monica, California, United States
Client
Withheld
Area
12000.0 ft2
Project Year
2013
Photographs
Alejandro Wirth
Location
Santa Monica, California, USA
Project Year
2013
Photographs
Alejandro Wirth, #
Area
12000.0 ft2

Video: Gehry Residence, 2012 AIA Twenty-five Year Award Recipient

Subscriber Access | May 25, 2012

The AIA sat down with famed architect Frank Gehry - recipient of the 2012 Twenty-five Year Award - to discuss his eccentric Santa Monica home that has enormously influenced both theory and practice over the last 25 to 35 years. In the late 1970s, Frank Gehry transformed an existing Dutch colonial home in a quiet Southern California neighborhood into a controversial symbol of deconstructivism by surrounding it with an unconventional new addition. As the AIA describes, “The exposed structure, chaotic fusion of disparate materials, and aggressive juxtaposition of old and new communicate a sense of real-time formal evolution and conflict, as if the building were dynamically, violently creating itself with found objects.”

Reactor Films / Brooks + Scarpa Architects

May 11, 2012

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Architects: Brooks + Scarpa Architects
Area: 7000 ft²

Rainbow Living / Minarc

March 13, 2012

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Architects: Minarc
Area: 4200 ft²

Santa Monica Parking Garages / Brooks + Scarpa

January 23, 2012

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Architects: Brooks & Scarpa
Year: 2011
Manufacturers: Dunn Edwards, Frazee Paint, James Hardie, Josta, Precision Coatings, +2Precision Coatings, INC., SOLYX-2

A+D Museum's ARkidECTURE + Design Workshop at The Eames Office

Subscriber Access | January 13, 2012

Now’s your chance to learn all about the wonderful world of Charles and Ray Eames at A+D Museum‘s ARkidECTURE + design workshop at The Eames Office Saturday, January 14th from 10AM – 1PM.