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DCTWRP Maintenance Facility
  • 8
  • 2024
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  • 4
  • 6
  • 2024
    Lucia Park
  • 7
  • 2023
    City of Anaheim Crew Quarters Building (CQB) and Sustainability Education Center (SEC)
  • 4
  • 6
  • 8
  • 2023
    Crossroads School, Performing Arts Classroom and Theater Building
  • 4
  • 2023
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  • 7
  • 2022
    CSU Long Beach Anna W Ngai Alumni Center
  • 4
  • 6
  • 2022
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  • 7
  • 2022
    Pio Pico Pocket Park and Parking Structure
  • 5
  • 6
  • 2022
    UC Santa Barbara Associated Students Bike Shop
  • 4
  • 5
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  • 8
  • 2022
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  • 7
  • 2021
    Chapman University Rinker Campus Master Plan
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  • 2021
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  • 2020
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  • 8
  • 2020
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  • 8
  • 2020
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  • 2020
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  • 4
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  • 2019
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    Caltech Watson Lab Feasibility Study
  • 4
  • 2018
    City of Fremont Warm Springs Innovation District Concept Study
  • 6
  • 8
  • 2018
    Netflix Animation Hub
  • 8
  • 2018
    UC Berkeley Olympic Rowing Facility Feasibility Study
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 2017
    CSULA Makerspace Feasibility Study
  • 4
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  • 2017
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  • 7
  • 2016
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  • 7
  • 2016
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  • 7
  • 2015
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  • 8
  • 2014
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  • 8
  • 2014
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  • 4
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  • 2014
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  • 7
  • 2013
    Bordeaux Sister Cities Pavilion
  • 6
  • 2013
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  • 7
  • 2012
    Tom Bradley Mini Mobile Museum
  • 4
  • 6
  • 2012
    UCLA Ackerman Student Union
  • 4
  • 6
  • 8
  • 2011
    Brown Jordan Showroom at Pacific Design Center
  • 8
  • 2011
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  • 7
  • 2010
    LACCD Harbor College Job Placement and Data Center
  • 4
  • 6
  • 2010
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  • 7
  • 2008
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  • 8
  • 2008
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  • 393
  • 2008
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  • 6
  • 2008
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  • 4
  • 6
  • 2007
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  • 7
  • 2005
    New Antioch Church of God in Christ Sunday School Addition
  • 394
  • 2000
    K-Residence 87-Lex
  • 7
  • 1999
    Bundang Townhouses
  • 7
  • 1998
    Ayres Residence Renovation
  • 7
  • 1998
    Pinedo Residence, Fallbrook
  • 7
  • 1997
    Noodle Stories
  • 8
  • 2002
    Shinsadong Building
  • 8
  • 1996
    Parashu
  • 8
  • 1993
    Sun Gallery
  • 7
  • LA Design Center

    Los Angeles, CA
    2004

    Located in the heart of South Los Angeles, an economically disadvantaged neighborhood at the center of the city’s 2001 civil disturbances, this project was conceived by furnituremaker Cisco Pinedo as a commercial center to highlight the area’s multi-talented young furniture design and fabrication companies and bring much-needed support and attention to this part of town.

    How does/should one design for South Central Los Angeles? That was the question we asked ourselves, not even a decade after riots had broken out following the acquittal of the LAPD officers who had beaten Rodney King senseless for nothing more than speeding in his Hyundai.

    As a start, we hypothesized that by reusing the existing buildings, by treating them with respect and affection, we would, in a sense, be communicating respect for the neighborhood as a whole.  We then took that idea further, layering the structures with a set of light, heterogeneous materials and screens that would seem both permanent and impermanent at the same time – a set of new clothes that would provide a strong identity for the spaces and buildings, but also seem flexible, open-ended, and inclusive.  We placed long, lightweight sheets of iridescent polycarbonate on existing heavy steel columns, over walls of warm brick; a “woven” stainless steel door in an existing window opening we extended to reach the floor; a porous fabric canopy over the existing parking lot; and a gate and fence at the entrance that didn’t pretend to be for any purpose other than security but was unique, nonetheless. Inside the buildings, we created an environment to showcase our client’s furniture, which was fabricated onsite using the same materials and strategies that we used outside. Our client opened his property to community usage. People came. No one defaced or graffiti-ed a single square inch, in a neighborhood that is regularly vandalized.

    Client

    • Francisco and Alba Pinedo, Cisco Brothers

    General Contractor

    • Brunswick Builders

    Project Team

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