Interior Design featured JFAK’s Roberts Pavilion at Claremont McKenna College today as one of these recent projects worth cheering for. Check out the other 11 projects at interiordesign.net
JFAK was named one of the top 50 firms shaping the Los Angeles skyline by Interior Design Magazine in this year’s PowerGridLA ranking. The overall ranking, based on all applicable information available at the time, as interpreted by Interior Design, is an evaluation of the top 50 firms based on their total square footage of development projects completed in the past 18 months combined with ones the firms are currently working on. The survey requested information on firms’ development projects completed in the past 18 months and current on-the-boards development projects within downtown L.A., Arts District, Culver City, Santa Monica, Venice Beach, Long Beach, and Pasadena. The data was compiled and analyzed by the Interior Design market research staff in New York, led by Wing Leung, research director. Read more at interiordesign.com
Alice Kimm spoke on Identity, Innovation, and Placemaking at a UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design as part of a lecture series co-sponsored by AIA East Bay.
Alice Kimm will be participating in UC Berkeley’s Spring 2019 Lecture Series, created in partnership with AIA East Bay.
The lecture will take place February 13th at UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design. It will begin at 7:30PM in 112 Wurster Hall and is open to the public.
California State University Long Beach awarded a new 7,000 SF alumni center to John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects. The structure will be designed to meet LEED Silver and Net-Zero Energy standards, and project process is expected to start in January 2019.
The lecture will begin at 7:00 pm in the Forum, Academic Wing, Elaine and Bram Goldsmith Campus, Otis College of Art and Design, 9045 Lincoln Boulevard, Los Angeles, 90045.
The lecture and parking are free and open to the public.
A trio of small multifamily residential buildings in West Hollywood is set to make way for a condo development of a four-story building that would feature 22 condominiums above 48 parking spaces on two basement levels.
JFAK Architects is designing the proposed low-rise development, wrapping around an interior courtyard.
The Spaulding Condos call for a mix of one- and two-bedroom floor plans, with a total of four units to be set aside as affordable housing at the very-low-, low-, and moderate income levels.
ULI Los Angeles – in coordination with the office of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti – recently tapped a trio of architecture firms to create conceptual designs for emergency shelter facility’s under the “A Bridge Home” program, which is intended to help homeless Angelenos transition into long-term housing.
The three architecture firms – DLR Group, Studio One Eleven, and JFAK Architects – worked with three landscape architecture firms – EPT Design, RELM Studio, and SWA Group – on three different site challenges: a 50-bed site, a 100-bed site, and a 150-bed site.
According to a press release, ULI Los Angeles is currently working with CBRE and Gensler to identify suitable sites in each of the 15 Los Angeles City Council Districts that are owned by government agencies to facilitate the development of these temporary shelter facilities.
Read more at urbanize.LA
The designs — depicting shelters of 50, 100 and 150 beds — produced by a group of architects working pro bono in support of Mayor Eric Garcetti’s $20-million initiative to build shelters in all 15 of Los Angeles’ City Council districts.
The goal is to come up with standard designs that could be placed on a lot anywhere in the city, and are pleasing enough to help the shelter plan overcome its two biggest obstacles: First is the reputed aversion homeless people have for the dreary conditions in shelters. Then there’s the almost inevitable community opposition that shelter proposals encounter.
The architects were recruited by the nonprofit Urban Land Institute. Working independently, all three teams came up with similar ideas for easing the isolation and regimentation of traditional shelters, where cots are lined end to end in a large building with limited access to the street.