For over 50 years, the Los Angeles Business Council has hosted its annual Architectural Awards to celebrate projects that embrace innovative design standards to enhance the way we live in Los Angeles. This year, for the 53rd annual awards, the jury received over 100 project submissions, making four award-winning project recognitions all the more rewarding. This year’s MATT project winners are the Herald Examiner Building Restoration, Landmark Los Angeles, the Rose Garden Tea Room Renovation at the Huntington, and the Terasaki Institute.
Originally designed by Julia Morgan, architect to William Randolph Hearst, this historic building has stood in downtown LA since 1914 as the headquarters for the Herald Examiner newspaper and became a cultural monument in 1977. MATT’s team undertook the restoration, renovation, modernization and seismic strengthening to upgrade and adapt the structure for Arizona State University’s School of Journalism, which leased 80% of the usable space for its global “ASU Local” initiative.
The Landmark Apartments is the first residential high-rise built west of the 405 Freeway in more than 40 years. The modern 34-story tower features 376 studio, one- and two-bedroom apartments–including 16 affordable units–as well as a 40,000 sf landscaped park at the corner of Wilshire and Stoner Avenue. The new shimmering glass-and-steel structure rises 349 feet in height with floor-to-ceiling windows; horizontal balcony planes and glass guardrails are intersected by vertical elements to a rooftop cornice.
Amenities include a Jr. Olympic size pool, a 2,500 sf state-of-the-art fitness center with an outdoor yoga deck, a lobby, and an alfresco lounge with fire pits and an on-site café.
