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			KEA Latest News Awards In the Office Press Presentations Exhibitions & Tours >Awards: 2007 Forumfest V, Los Angeles Forum fo Architecture & Urban Design Hank Koning & Julie Eizenberg Honorees 2006 Sustainable Quality Award Koning Eizenberg was awarded a Sustainable Quality Award by the City of Santa Monica in recognition of our commitment and leadership in sustainable practices in the natural and built environments, social responsibility and economic development. The award is given to firms and organizations who voluntarily engage in activities that result in cleaner air and water, less waste, traffic and polution, the conservation of energy and natural resources, improved quality of life for residents and workers, and a strong and viable local economy. For more information, visit www.smsqa.com. Virginia Avenue Park Expansion 2007 LA Business Council Architectural Award, Landscape Architecture 2007 Westside Prize Urban Solutions/Built - Westside Urban Forum Children's Museum of Pittsburgh 2007 Rudy Bruner Gold Medal Award 2006 National AIA Honor Award for Architecture 2006 AIA\California Council Honor Award 2006 AIA\Los Angeles Chapter Honor Award 2006 AIA\Pittsburgh Chapter Honor Award and Green Design Citation 2006 ID Design Distinction Award, Environments 2005 MBA Building Excellence Award for Best Project Over $5-Million presented by the Master Builders' Associates of Western Pennsylvania. 2005 American Architecture Award presented by the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design. 2005 AISC IDEAS Merit Award Merit Award, 2005 Innovative Design & Excellence in Architecture Using Structural Steel (I.D.E.A.S.) from the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC). 2005 Cool Space Awards Winner The museum recently was awarded a Cool Space award to "celebrate and highlight the cool spaces in our midst and to create excitement about cool spaces that will encourage adaptive reuse of urban locations." Herb Alpert Educational Village 2006 LA Business Counci Architectural Award, Unbuilt 2004 Westside Prize, Educational - Westside Urban Forum Waterloo Heights Apartments, Los Angeles 2006 Alan J. Rothman Award, AIA/HUD Secretary's Award for Housing Accessibility. Green Meadows Recreation Center Gymnasium 2006 Concrete Masonry Assoc. of California & Nevada Merit Award, Sustainability The Standard, Downtown Los Angeles 2005 AIA/LA Merit Award, Adaptive Reuse Hancock Mixed-Use 2005 Westside Prize, Westside Urban Forum Honor Award Mixed-Use In-Process Residential Architect Leadership Awards Koning Eizenberg was awarded the Top Firm Award in the 2004 Residential Architect Leadership Awards. (see full article) back to top
			>In the Office: Promotions & Appointments Koning Eizenberg Architecture is known for inventive architecture for housing, schools, museums, retail centers and community and institutional buildings. Over the last two years we have significantly contributed to sustainable practices with two breakthrough environmentally responsible projects: the largest LEED-Silver museum in the U.S. and the first LEED-certified park in the country. The practice has expanded its focus on strategic thinking and research to approach larger and more complex contexts. As always, we look to understand cultural connections and imbedded commonsense opportunities and translate them into quality experiences. Success requires the collaborative effort of all our staff. 2007 We have a great team, and are pleased to announce the latest promotion within our office. Associate – Nathan Bishop Nathan joined Koning Eizenberg full-time last year after working with us for on and off for several years while teaching at Rhode Island School of Design. Nathan also brings more than 10 years of East Coast experience in community and high-profile institutional projects and contributes to research and design leadership. His work will continue to focus on the optimization of design and development potential for complex projects, exemplified by the King's Road Mixed-Use Project in West Hollywood, for which he is Project Manager. Concurrently, he maintains a commitment to teaching and research, with his recent appointment as Associate Professor at Rhode Island School of Design. Nathan holds a Master in Architecture from Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture, Northeastern University. 2006 We are pleased to announce five new promotions that acknowledge emerging leadership within the practice and dedication to client service and architectural quality … Senior Associate – Oonagh Ryan As an associate, Oonagh's design and management skills brought clarity and beauty to the design of Virginia Avenue Park which fused city, community and sustainability objectives to develop the first LEED-certified park in the nation. Oonagh has worked with Koning Eizenberg for eight years on a myriad of award-winning housing and community projects. As senior associate, Oonagh Ryan will continue to implement improved management systems officewide that enhance design, efficiency and client responsiveness. Associate – Robert Fabijaniak Robert Fabijaniak has contributed his design sensibility and construction intelligence to many award-winning projects. At Koning Eizenberg since 2001, Robert has shown an ability to elucidate and implement design ideas for complex buildings like the Herb Alpert Educational Village and challenging municipal projects including work for the Los Angeles Recreation and Parks Department. At the same time he has mentored junior staff and improved consultant co-ordination. Robert Fabijaniak will focus on streamlining the design and design documentation process. Associate – James Kelly, AIA James Kelly has nine years of international experience on high-profile commercial, residential and institutional projects. Over five years at Koning Eizenberg, he has demonstrated strong design and project management skills working on the award-winning Herb Alpert Educational Village among other projects. Particularly interested in the refinement, development and realization of design, James Kelly will lead research in innovation and the implementation of new materials and systems in future projects. Associate – Mohamed Sharif With 11 years of experience including teaching and running his own design practice, Mohamed Sharif joined Koning Eizenberg in 2005. Mohamed led the design and visualization effort for the firm's high-profile Pittsburgh Cultural District Riverfront design competition submission. He is also a contributing editor for arq, an architecture research quarterly published by Cambridge University Press. Mohamed Sharif will expand the practice's design and planning potential by pursuing research and documentation on strategic issues affecting contemporary design and implementation. Associate – Roderick Villafranca Roderick Villafranca joined Koning Eizenberg in 1999 and contributed to the design and representation of significant projects including the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, the Masonry Variations Exhibit, and the Community/Senior Center for the New York Times' re-visioning of Lower Manhattan. His strong graphic and visualization skills have advanced the firm's ability to innovate. As we move forward, Roderick Villafranca will continue to provide leadership for graphic representation and guide implementation of Building Information Modeling methodologies. back to top
			>Press: August/September 2006 The new monograph, Architecture Isn't Just for Special Occasions, written by Julie Eizenberg is out. See www.monacellipress.com This inventive and in-depth monograph presents fourteen projects with familiar uses -- museums, schools, houses and housing, community centers, and hotels. The design solutions draw on qualities of popular culture and vernacular design, as well as on three principles the firm brings to each commission: trust, ease, and fit. With these projects, Koning Eizenberg proposes a new expectation for the contemporary age: extraordinary experiences on a daily basis. July/August 2006 Met Home, Hope for Housing? Page 46, Raul Barreneche interviews Julie Eizenberg on the new book, and our obsession with parking and the future of housing. July/August 2006 I.D. 52nd Annual Design Review The Children's Museum of Pittsburgh is given a Design Distinction Award in the Environments category, see page 158. July 7, 2006 AIArchitect This Week Santa Monica Park First to Receive LEED Silver Rating by Russell Boniface featuring Virginia Avenue Park ... go to: www.aia.org/ararchitect/thisweek06/0707/0707leed.cfm June 2006 Architectural Record See the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh in the AIA Honor Awards issue, pages 152-155. The Plummer Park Community Center in West Hollywood, is one of the featured projects in *LA2000+ New Architecture in Los Angeles* by John Chase, Monacelli Press, 2006. May 2006 Press Release We are pleased to report that two recent projects have achieved Silver LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) ratings from the US Green Building Council - Virginia Avenue Park is the first park in the nation to achieve LEED certification, and the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh is the largest museum to receive a Silver LEED certification. May 4, 2006 Los Angeles Times, Home Section F First Sprouts of a Vertical CityScape by Janet Eastman - L.A.'s top architects turn their eye to three- and four-story complexes that could provide a creative answer to the mayor's call for more housing... includes Koning Eizenberg's Harold Way affordable housing project. April 2006 Interior Design Heavens Above by Edie Cohen featuring Suzanne Felsen's new jewelry boutique on Melrose Avenue. April 2006 Architecture Architecture Isn't Just for Special Occasions - Julie Eizenberg discusses the upcoming book which makes a case for infusing the design of everyday spaces with the needs and desires of urban dwellers... February 2006 Press Release Koning Eizenberg is included as lead designer on one of the development teams short-listed to design a riverfront neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. The two-block six-acre site known as the 'Eighth Street Block' will feature a mix of residential uses with riverfront views and retail and community spaces. Read more at: Post-Gazette.com and PittsburghLIVE.com ... January 2006 AIArchitect The Children's Museum of Pittsburgh wins National AIA Honor Award. Click here for the PDF of the article. January 2006 LA Architect The Standard Downtown LA wins Merit Award in the 2005 AIA/Los Angeles Design Awards. Click here for the PDF of the article. November 2005 Domes (Provoli, Greece) International architectural review featuring the Standard Downtown LA in Concept Hotel issue. Click here for the PDF of the article. November 2005 Il Giornale Dell' Architettura Italian publication featuring the Museo per Bambini Pittsburgh (Children's Museum of Pittsburgh). Click here for the PDF of the article. October 2005 Architecture On the Boards by Tracey Hummer, annoucing the Herb Alpert Educational Village for the New Visions Foundation. Click here for the PDF of the article. Summer 2005 h Magazine (The Heinz Endowment magazine) "Growing Up: The Children's Museum of Pittsburgh Comes of Age" by Michelle Pilecki, describes the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh as a great big place to play and a model for other institutions around the country. Click here for the PDF of the article. May 2005 Metropolitan Home "Design 100," the annual roundup of singular, leading-edge design, features the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh in the number-one position on the list: "Go into Delight... the centerpiece of this expansion and renovation project by architects Hank Koning and Julie Eizenberg ... is a blithely transparent building that reduces waste in every way, ...filtering sunlight into the new exhibition halls, adding joy to energy-saving innovation." April 2005 Metropolis "Project Play," by Andrew Blum, describes the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh as an "armature for discovery... providing opportunities for the widest range of experiences." April 8, 2005 Los Angeles Times "A Good Fit for Museum's Chief, Its Two Styles and its Kids," by Christopher Hawthorne, who writes that Koning Eizenberg have brought "a sense of accessibility and a relaxed kind of architectural sophistication" to new Children's Museum of Pittsburgh where the new building makes "no overt gestures toward contextualism but still manages to operate as both a bridge and beacon." back to top
			>Presentations: June 28, 2007, 7:30 pm Julie Eizenberg Toyota Lecture SUPERordinary: Constructive meddling, or plucking invention from convention. Art Center College of Design, South Campus February 7, 2007 Recent Work Julie Eizenberg is the Judith Greenberg Seinfeld Visiting Critic at Syracuse University Archittecture Department and will be presenting a lecture on recent work of the firm. For further information, go to: http://soa.syr.edu/index.php September 15, 2006 Dwell on Design Conference + Exhibition, "Affordability/The City" 1:30-4:30pm Brian Lane will be a panelist at the Dwell on Design conference, discussing the topic of Affordability/The City. For more information, go to: http://www.dwell.com/connect/dwellconferences/3417376.html July 30, 2006 Smart Gals Speakeasy, 7:00-9:00pm An intimate and engaging conversation with Julie Eizenberg who will present the work of the firm and introduce the new book, Architecture Isn't Just for Special Occasions. For more information, go to: www.smartgals.org/speakeasy June 20, 2006 ULI/PCBC 2006 Multifamily Trends Conference "Design Trends: Multifamily Housing from the Very Large to the Very Small" Julie Eizenberg to be on panel discussing the latest design trends in urban condos and apartments. For registration information, go to www.pcbc.com/multifamily November 2005 Cityworks Los Angeles "Subdivide + Multiply " Brian Lane was a panelist discussing the new Townhouse Ordinance in Los Angeles which proposes a new model for development and a unique model for home ownership in Los Angeles. The ordinance essentially permits existing residentially zoned lots to be subdivided into distinctly owned, fee-sample lots enabling the development of townhomes. www.cityworkslosangeles.org November 2005 ULI Fall Meeting "Design Trends on Affordable Housing" Julie Eizenberg was a panelist for the Urban Land Institute's Fall Meeting speaking about affordable housing with Don Carter, Dan Solomon, Larry Scarpa and Stacy Stewart of the Fannie Mae Foundation, in conjunction with the Affordable Housing Exhibit of the National Building Museum. January 2005 LA Townhouse Ordinance Study - Brian Lane, Principal During the past year KEA's Brian Lane has contributed to a task force of architects and developers examining prototype townhouse designs. A variety of plans examined minimum size/dimensions, parking, open space fire and street access and density that allowed the greatest amount of creativity and flexibility. Brian, along with principal Hank Koning and staff Robert Fabijaniak, Shawn Bleet and Roderick Villafranca, developed a 3 "row home" prototype which is part of LA City Planner Jane Blumenfeld's staff report circulating to city agencies and officials. The Planning Commission hearing held on July 22, 2004 at City Hall was favorable and the ordinance was approved in January 2005. Listen to Julie Eizenberg... KCRW - Design and Architecture - Radio Broadcast January 21, 2003 Do architects design mostly for the rich or are they working to improve the urban fabric for everybody? Mark Robbins of Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute, architects Julie Eizenberg and John Friedman urban designer John Chase, and photographer-writer-filmmaker Lady Lucinda Lambton join host Frances Anderton for a discussion on building for the public realm. stream (KCRW Broadcast) download RealPlayer (1.4mB) download mp3 (3.8mB) back to top
			>Exhibitions & Tours: February 7 - March 2, 2007 Living Arrangements Exhibit of recent work at Syracuse Architecture, Syracuse University, with accompanying lecture by Julie Eizenberg on February 7th. For further information, go to: http://soa.syr.edu/index.php Currently on Tour Affordable Housing: Designing an American Asset Koning Eizenberg's award-winning project, Waterloo Heights Apartments, is one of the featured projects in this traveling exhibition organized by the National Building Museum in cooperation with the Urban Land Institute. A comprehensive catalogue is available through bookstores at the National Building Museum, www.nbm.org, or the ULI, at www.uli.org. July 29 - September 11, 2005 SCI-Arc Gallery Whatever Happened to LA? Architectural and Urban Experiments 1970-1990 Curated by Jeffrey Inada and Peter Zellner Whatever Happened to LA? showcases the distinctive sensibilities of Southern California architects whose early works defined Los Angeles as a contemporary city during the last quarter of the 20th century. �Featured works by Koning Eizenberg, Fred Fisher, Hodgets+Fung, Coy Howard, Anthony Lumsden, Moore Rubell Yudell, Morphosis, Eric Owen Moss, Cesar Pelli, and others... For further information, visit www.sciarc.edu. August 22- September 7, 2005 Record Houses 50th Anniversary Exhibit Pratt Institute, Manhattan NY Part of the Residential Design 2005 Convention being held at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston April 6th and 7th. See our Hollywood Duplex project that was a 1988 Record House. Click here for more info, go to www.buildbostonresidential.com. Sunday, May 15, 2005, 11am - 4 pm AIA LA 2005 Home Tour: Venice Includes Koning Eizenberg's Ozone House, a "beach cottage with a contemporary twist," completed in 1998 and featured in Metropolitan Home. For tour information and reservations, contact AIA/LA at tours@aialosangeles.org, visit the website at http://aialosangeles.org/hometours.html, or download the AIA/LA order form. back to top