(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…

The 2008 recipients of the San Diego Architectural Foundation’s Steven C. Ladislaus Memorial Scholarship have been selected. A $4,000 scholarship has been awarded to Tri (Tim) Quang Do of the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) in Los Angeles, California. An additional $1,000 was awarded to Chelsea Chan Hei, also…

RTKL, the international architecture, planning, engineering and creative services firm, is being honored for its work on two developments: Dream Mall in Kaohsiung, Taiwan; and Market Lofts in Los Angeles, California. Having earned 2008 Gold Nugget Merit Awards, each of these impressive projects possesses qualities unparalleled among peers. At 2.5…

Today, the Los Angeles Business Council (LABC) honored the region’s finest architecture design projects, including the new Los Angeles Green Building Award, at the 38th Annual Los Angeles Architectural Awards. The Awards Program, which recognizes entire project teams (architects, developers and contractors), spotlighted the abundance of world-class architecture and sustainable…

The LA Forum is very pleased to announce the winner of the LINER competition, Oyler Wu Collaborative. The winning team was selected from a shortlist of three teams that included F-Lab and Kuth Ranieri Architects. Oyler Wu Collaborative’s winning entry “Pendulum Plane”:

On Friday June 6th, Dwell hosted 2008 Dwell Wacom Live Ecodesign Challenge at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) in downtown Los Angeles.  This “video-game-tournament-meets Iron-Chef-style” competition matched 8 rendering artists to create the best 2D renderings of sustainable and modular homes…

The USC School Of Architecture is pleased to announce the winners of the first 2008 Youtube Video Competition! Thank you to all who participated, as all of the entries were of great quality! From clever dance sequences to candid student interviews, all entries were…

The competition organizers thanked each of the design teams who participated in the First Round of L.A. Forum’s Liner Competition. As Juror Quinyun Ma commented, the ideas presented open the way to a wide-ranging, free-wheeling discussion about small urban spaces on the boulevard and in the city. The first round…