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

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Santa Monica Animation Studio / Gwynne Pugh Urban Studio

Santa Monica Animation Studio  / Gwynne Pugh Urban Studio - Office Buildings, Beam, Handrail, Stairs, Door, Chair
Courtesy of Gwynne Pugh Urban Studio

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Gehry Designs Mixed-Use Tower for Downtown Santa Monica

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

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  • Architects

  • Location

    Santa Monica, California, United States
  • Client

    Withheld
  • Area

    12000.0 ft2
  • Project Year

    2013
  • Photographs

  • Location

    Santa Monica, California, USA
  • Project Year

    2013
  • Photographs

  • Area

    12000.0 ft2

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

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

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Rainbow Living / Minarc

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Santa Monica, United States
  • Architects: Minarc
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  4200 ft²

Santa Monica Parking Garages / Brooks + Scarpa

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Santa Monica, United States
  • Architects: Brooks & Scarpa
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2011
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Dunn Edwards, Frazee Paint, James Hardie, Josta, Precision Coatings, +2

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

A+D Museum's ARkidECTURE + Design Workshop at The Eames Office - Featured Image
Courtesy of A+D

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.

Luminous Passage / Predock Frane Architects

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Santa Monica, United States

20th St. Offices / Belzberg Architects

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Santa Monica, United States
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  5000 ft²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2009

Step Up on Fifth / Brooks + Scarpa

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  • Architects: Brooks + Scarpa
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  31600
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2009

Colorado Court / Brooks + Scarpa

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  • Architects: Brooks + Scarpa: Dry Design, Inc
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  30150
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2002

Gehry Residence / Gehry Partners

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Santa Monica, United States

Ocean Breeze Apartments / atelier V

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Santa Monica, United States
  • Architects: atelier V
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2009

Diamond House / XTEN Architecture

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Santa Monica, United States
  • Architects: XTEN Architecture
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  820
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2009
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Swisspearl

King Residence / John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects

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Santa Monica, United States