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Los Angeles AIA Awards 2008 Artful Campus Art Center College of Design used to be confined mostly to a hillside campus in Pasadena, anchored by an iconic 1976 building, designed by Craig Ellwood's firm, that bridges a road and arroyo overlooking the city. The school has since expanded into downtown Pasadena, paralleling the overall rise in the city's pedestrian-friendly urban core. Daly Genik renovated a postwar aircraft facility into the college's South Campus, which opened in 2004. The LEED-certified campus houses the graduate art program, with studios, a print shop, and a letterpress studio, in addition to a 16,000 square feet (1,500 square meters) for exhibitions in a space that formerly housed a supersonic wind tunnel. Daly Genik renovated a postwar aircraft facility into the college's South Campus, which opened in 2004. The LEED-certified campus houses the graduate art program, with studios, a print shop, and a letterpress studio, in addition to a 16,000 square feet (1,500 square meters) for exhibitions in a space that formerly housed a supersonic wind tunnel. Daly Genik renovated a postwar aircraft facility into the college's South Campus, which opened in 2004. The LEED-certified campus houses the graduate art program, with studios, a print shop, and a letterpress studio, in addition to a 16,000 square feet (1,500 square meters) for exhibitions in a space that formerly housed a supersonic wind tunnel. "To do adaptive reuse with this much artistry is remarkable," the AIA/LA jury commented. "The quality of light used is spectacular." Challenged to create openings for light to enter the deepest parts of the building, the architects created a series of large skylights on the roof and through selective cuts on the pedestrian side of the building. The skylights are made from films of ETFE (ethylene tetrafluoroethylene) formed into air cushions, which can be inflated or deflated to adjust the transmission of daylight and heat. Cutting away portions of the roof necessitated the addition of a surrounding cast-concrete curb to distribute the structural load. Icon for Science The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Satellite Operations Facility by Morphosis is an iconic, futuristic-looking building with a skyward-reaching form to express the work of the institution. "The building integrates science and mythology in the architectural expression," the jury commented, "giving a sense that there is important work about the planet going on here." The $81 million, 208,000-square-foot (19,300-square-meter) facility provides space for collection of weather and climate data from a series of satellites mounted on the building. Many of the building's primary features are located underground for optimum energy efficiency, and the roof supports 146,000 square feet (13,600 square meters) of vegetation in addition to the satellites. The LEED Gold-certified facility has engineering systems designed by Einhorn Yaffee Prescott Architecture & Engineering in a joint venture with Morphosis. Morphosis leader Thom Mayne was once dubbed the bad boy of L.A. architecture, but in recent years he has become more a part of the architectural establishment. He won a Gold Medal from AIA/LA in 2000, and Morphosis has increasingly made its name designing U.S. government facilities. The NOAA project comes on the heels of the San Francisco Federal Building (2007) and the Wayne L. Morse United States Courthouse (2006) in Eugene, Oregon. Projects of Merit Ten projects received merit awards from AIA/LA. Among them was the 26th Street Low-Income Housing in Santa Monica, by Kanner Architects, which also received a national AIA Honor Award for 2008. Another project by Morphosis received one of the merit awards: the Hypo-Alpe-Adria Bank Headquarters in Udine, Italy, which further develops the conceptualization of landscape and building as one. Frank Lloyd Wright's Ennis House, built in 1924 and damaged by the 1994 Northridge earthquake, received a merit for its rehabilitation by Eric Lloyd Wright and Wiehle Carr Associated Architects. Eric Lloyd Wright is the grandson of Frank Lloyd Wright and the son of prominent Los Angeles architect Lloyd Wright. >>> Discuss this article in the Architecture Forum...
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