Institutional / Educational

Jury Comments:
This is a big building added into a large complicated complex on a hill. With a simple bold stroke, its sensually brings order and form to the urban, hillside landscape that it dominates; an important and all-too-rare gift of the hospital typology.

Urban Design / Planning

Jury Comments:
What an enlightened City and capable architect. There is a lightness of touch and a wonderful believability about this project. It honors the genius loci with fresh eyes and fresh ideas. We can't wait to see it implemented.

Unbuilt

Jury Comments:
Strong, evocative, cheeky, funny and poetic. This practical FOLLY has a rare sense of joy, humor and craft... "a glorified campsite that's pretty frikken elegant. Minimalist shelter for naked people... .have to beat rattle snakes before taking clothes off."

Multi Family Residential

Jury Comments:
This is an important project, a teaching project done with a deft and learned hand. As an exemplar of a significant school of thought, it makes a convincing case that drawing typological threads from the urban fabric can create exquisite, lovable, smart communities.

Unbuilt

Jury Comments:
One of the jewels in the crown of the extraordinary building program of the LAUSD, this school honors its missions, its pivotal location at the peak of the Grand Avenue culture corridor. Its presence on the 101, vis a vis the Cathedral, creates an extraordinary freeway threshold for the City. It is particularly memorable for its mixture of delight, muscularity, severity and audacious whim. The mixture of gravitas and joy is exemplified by the Campanile which announces the central place of art and education in good and fine City. It really must be built.

Single Family Residential

Jury Comments:
Elegant, smart PLAN, light and delightful. This rebuilding, over the remaining slab of 2 burnt down houses on a Pasadena Glen, is really fresh and open, evoking, in a new way, the simple, connected attitude of the Case Study Houses.

Renovation

Jury Comments:
The beautiful and loving restoration - and the tenacity of the architect and community to see it through - is the embodiment of what makes great communities, and the central role of architects and architecture in that making.

Unbuilt

Jury Comments:
This addition revisits a classical courtyard typology with freshness, and elegance. Its apsidal courtyard building is uplifting, transformative and memorable, a gift to the City.

Institutional / Educational

Jury Comments:
The building honors its campus as it reinforces its major axis with a strong, light-filled atrium typology. Its simple dignity is poignant and appropriate for its essential civic purpose.

Unbuilt

Jury Comments:
Innovative, serious and practical. This project explores a current language with flair, creating a placemaking object of desire.

Renovation

Jury Comments:
This project takes an everyday 29,000 s. f. tilt-up and transforms it into an energy efficient, LEED-Gold bound, light filled atrium-surrounding office building.

Commercial / Industrial / Recreational

Jury Comments:
Adding onto the renovated Mercantile Building of 1892 on Main Street, which is transformed into a lobby, gallery, and intimate theater, this new "Old" Town Community Theatre delightfully delights in the language and tectonics of the Old West, albeit circa 2006. It creates an important civic place of culture for its city.

Various & Sundry

Jury Comments:
The Modular components for high density urban living are assembled with a sense of delight and spirit, using color, form and simple urban geometry.