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Architects: Michael W. Folonis Architects
- Area: 50000 ft²
Santa Monica: The Latest Architecture and News
UCLA Outpatient Surgery and Oncology Center / Michael W. Folonis Architects
Santa Monica Animation Studio / Gwynne Pugh Urban Studio
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Architects: Gwynne Pugh Urban Studio
- Area: 17000 ft²
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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Santa Monica, California, United StatesClient
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12000.0 ft2Project Year
2013Photographs
Location
Santa Monica, California, USAProject Year
2013Photographs
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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Architects: Brooks + Scarpa Architects
- Area: 7000 ft²
Santa Monica Parking Garages / Brooks + Scarpa
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Architects: Brooks & Scarpa
- Year: 2011
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Manufacturers: Dunn Edwards, Frazee Paint, James Hardie, Josta, Precision Coatings, +2
A+D Museum's ARkidECTURE + Design Workshop at The Eames Office
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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Architects: Predock Frane Architects
- Year: 2010
20th St. Offices / Belzberg Architects
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Architects: Belzberg Architects
- Area: 5000 ft²
- Year: 2009
Step Up on Fifth / Brooks + Scarpa
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Architects: Brooks + Scarpa
- Area: 31600 m²
- Year: 2009
Colorado Court / Brooks + Scarpa
Gehry Residence / Gehry Partners
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Architects: Gehry Partners
- Year: 1978
Ocean Breeze Apartments / atelier V
Diamond House / XTEN Architecture
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Architects: XTEN Architecture
- Area: 820 m²
- Year: 2009
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Manufacturers: Swisspearl
King Residence / John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects
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Architects: John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects
- Area: 316 m²