A campus aimed at enriching high school students’ lives through art and music received one of its finishing touches from a specialty contracting team that wanted its work to mirror the creativity of the students. Related Links: Best of California 2009 Los Angeles Unified School District’s Central Los Angeles High School #9 is expected to be a showcase campus for the district and features a number of performance and art activities designed for the school’s nearly 2,000 students. Enclos worked on installing the curtain wall for the entrance to the 40,000-sq-ft theater wall lobby. The Enclos design team worked closely
The builders of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles would be happy to know that a quality project has risen from the rubble of the hotel. The Central Los Angeles Learning Center #1 is the first phase of a K-12 learning center that is being built at the site of the former historic hotel along Wilshire Boulevard. Related Links: Best of California 2009 The school was completed in time for students to attend in September and features its own entrance, administration and academic program. The school features enough classroom space for 840 students, a parking garage, central plant and athletic
The project team behind the Mariners Church Youth Building was tasked with creating a fun space for children and teenagers while not disturbing the ongoing operations of a church campus. Related Links: Best of California 2009 The building is a two-story steel structure that contains two large multi-purpose auditoriums. The downstairs auditorium features a large roll-up door that opens to the outside youth plaza. There is a lounge downstairs for high schoolers that has couches, a pool table and televisions. There is also a loft for junior high school children that includes games, including a foosball table, a ping-pong table
A historic Orange County auditorium and bell tower has been restored and renovated to become once again a prominent place for high school musicals. Related Links: Best of California 2009 The Huntington Beach Union High School District Auditorium and Bell Tower Renovation project team renovated the 27,000-sq-ft, 600-seat performing arts auditorium and 125-ft-tall bell tower. The team also built a new 9,200-sq-ft performing arts classroom and courtyard, and renovated outdoor walkways and an outdoor amphitheater on the auditorium’s south side. An important part of the restoration was to restore the auditorium’s and bell tower’s concrete and plaster exterior skin. In
The Edward R. Roybal Learning Center took a long and difficult path to completion but once finished the Los Angeles Unified School District could call the school a success, rather than a disaster. Related Links: Best of California 2009 Construction at the school site began in the late 1990s but was shut down two separate times after seismic and environmental conditions were discovered. The project site sat dormant for three years. The school, then called the Belmont Learning Complex, was viewed as the most expensive high school never built. But in 2005, the Los Angeles Unified School District awarded new
This $10-million City Hall project culminates a six-year process that spanned visioning, programming, site selection, master planning and design. The new building combines bold, civic-scaled spaces with warm, informal materials, and facilitates the public’s easy access to the city staff that was the norm at the old facility. The two-story, glass-walled building along Manila Avenue has been submitted for LEED silver certification. Related Links: Best of California 2009 Teamwork and a project management focus combined for a successful project, according to the building team. The architect says it has long been an advocate of an integrated approach to design with
Needing to build a fire station for the city of Encinitas while an existing fire station remained in operation was one of the most significant challenges for the project team behind Encinitas Fire Station #3. Related Links: Best of California 2009 The existing fire station was outdated and did not meet the requirements for new stations. However, the old station needed to remain in service in order to provide emergency and fire help for the surrounding area. HAR Construction built the two-story, 7,256-sq-ft fire station working with city officials and architect Dominy + Associates Architects @ domusstudio. To build the
The project team behind the Fox Theatre Renovation and Addition was tasked with preserving the historical ambiance of a 1929 vaudeville theater, but also converting it into a 1,600-seat performing arts center. Related Links: Best of California 2009 The $30-million project, which took less than two years to build, also needed to retain the Spanish revival architecture and detailing both inside and out. The city of Riverside funded the construction of the theater and asked the project team to restore it to its former glory. The project is part of the city’s billion-dollar plan to invest into Riverside’s art and
This $12.6-million project features the complete renovation of 18,300 sq ft of existing medical/surgery space on the fourth floor of an existing 10-story hospital building into a new 65-bed Neo-Natal Intensive Care Unit. The new unit features auxiliary functions including nurse stations, public waiting areas, offices, pharmacy, infant isolation rooms, employee break and locker rooms, restrooms, utility and storage rooms. The project was completed while maintaining all building services and systems for surgical floors below and acute care patient beds above. Related Links: Best of California 2009 The facility is now the largest neo-natal intensive care unit in a 25-mi
The $38-million Globe Mills project in Sacramento transformed a long abandoned historic industrial site into a thriving residential community with 112 affordable senior apartments, 31 contemporary lofts and neighborhood-oriented commercial spaces. The transit-oriented, green and sustainable infill project succeeds through historic adaptive reuse and new construction in a public/private partnership. Related Links: Best of California 2009 The project consists of three multi-story buildings on a one-acre site and 24 six-story historic concrete silos. Two buildings are new construction and contain senior units, while the Mill Building was adapted from the former Flour/Cereal/Cleaning Mills to accommodate the loft-style apartment units. The
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