On a beautiful Los Angeles afternoon, the SMIBE (Society for Moving Images about the Built Environment) jury met at the Neutra VDL House to deliberate the finalists of the short film competition “Story about a Place”. The jurors were Christopher…

Via Metropolitan Home: Top honors go to Karman Ng for a refreshingly modern design of his Berkeley, CA home that speaks to mid-century sensibilities, cutting-edge trends, artistic expression and most of all the needs of his young family. Living…

Organized by the San Francisco Museum of Art (SFMOMA) and Henry Urbach, SFMOMA’s Helen Hilton Raiser Curator of Architecture and Design, the exhibition is unorthodox in that it combines two approaches to showing architecture in a gallery: video documentation of the studio’s built work and an environment,…

Gensler announced the winner of the Gensler Brinkmann Scholarship competition at Contract magazine’s 30th Annual Interiors Awards Breakfast in New York City. Danae Marie Ledgerwood, a senior at Woodbury University in Whittier, California, received the $7,500 academic scholarship and a post-graduation internship with Gensler. …

The Board of Trustees of The Speed Art Museum announced today the appointment of wHY Architecture led by principal Kulapat Yantrasast, working with his partners Yo Hakomori and Richard Stoner, to revitalize and expand its historic museum complex in Louisville, Kentucky. Charles L. Venable, Director of The Speed Art Museum,…

TEN Arquitectos’ design for Irvine, California’s Orange County Great Park was one of six projects selected to receive the AIA’s 2009 Institute Honor Award for Regional and Urban Design. The 2009 Institute Honor Awards for Regional and Urban Design Jury included: Jury Chair Jonathan J. Marvel, AIA, Rogers Marvel Architects…

California State University Channel Islands in Camarillo, California announces that the John Spoor Broome Library has been named a winner in the California Construction magazine Best of 2008 awards program. The Library won the Award of Merit in the Outstanding Architectural Design category. An independent jury of industry experts in…

(Los Angeles, California - November 24, 2008) - The AIA’s California Council presented an Honor Award for Urban Design to Culver-City, California-based ah’bé landscape architects for its streetscape for “South,” the first new high-rise residential development in downtown Los Angeles in 23 years and a key part of its revitalization.…

Internationally Acclaimed Architect and Chair of the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design, Hitoshi Abe, wins the SIA-Getz Architecture Prize for Emergent Architecture in Asia Hitoshi AbeHitoshi Abe, Chair of the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban…

The AIA/Los Angeles announced winners of the judges’ choice, as well as the people’s choice, in the 2008 Restaurant Design Awards, marking the fourth year of the AIA/LA’s much-anticipated awards program that recognizes the very best in restaurant, café, and lounge design. AIA/LA received over forty submissions in the…