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COMPLETED PROJECT / HAMMER MUSEUM
The final phase of the Hammer Museum's expansion and renovation premiered on March 25 and 26. New spaces include a new main entrance and lobby on Wilshire and Westwood Boulevards, new gallery space, offices, and an outdoor sculpture terrace. Over the past two decades, MMA has worked with the Museum to develop a strategic approach to update the existing facilities, add necessary program areas, and provide a new visibility and vitality for the Museum as a whole. New and updated spaces include the Billy Wilder Theater (2006), courtyard renovation and Education Lab (2012), John V. Tunney Bridge (2015), galleries (2017), Nimoy Studio (2018), cafe (2018), bookstore (2022), new entry and lobby galleries (2023), and 40,000 square feet of renovation to newly acquired space in the adjoining office tower (2023).
Michael Maltzan and Hammer Museum Director Ann Philbin spoke with Architectural Record Editor in Chief Josephine Minutillo about their decades-long collaboration and the evolution, during that time, not just of the building, but the city of Los Angeles as well.
photo by Iwan Baan
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BREAKING GROUND / SIXTH STREET VIADUCT PARC
Los Angeles city officials have commenced work on 12 acres of new park spaces at the foot of the Los Angeles Sixth Street Viaduct. A groundbreaking ceremony was held on August 5th for the Sixth Street Park, Arts, and River Connectivity project (PARC). Landscape architecture firm Hargreaves Jones is leading the design.
The park will include seven acres of open space on the east side of the Los Angeles River in Boyle Heights and five acres of space in the Arts District on the west side. The Boyle Heights section will feature grass fields, picnic areas, a splash pad, event space, and sports fields and courts. The Arts District section will include a new arts plaza and river gateway, which will host spaces for performances, a café, and restrooms. Construction on PARC is expected to last around two-and-a-half years.
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NEW PROJECT / HARTFORD FEDERAL COURTHOUSE
We’re thrilled to share that we’ll be designing a new 281,000-square-foot Federal Courthouse in Hartford, CT with our partner SLAM. In 2020, the Federal Judiciary identified a new courthouse in Hartford as a top priority across the country.
The program will include 11 courtrooms, 18 chambers and offices for court-related agencies along with 66 indoor parking spaces. Through planning and design, the teams will balance the safety and user needs of this unique building typology to achieve an optimal work environment that grows with their needs over time.
The project will meet the 10-year space needs of the courts and court-related agencies, and will accommodate expansion to meet the anticipated 30-year needs of the courts. In doing so, the building will also adapt easily to the broad range of Hartford’s seasonal temperatures, as well as any more extreme conditions resulting from climate change.
We’ll explore ways for this project to connect to its physical and historical context, while honoring the principles of democracy and the civic lifeblood it supports.
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UNDER CONSTRUCTION / 26 POINT 2 APARTMENTS
26 Point 2 Apartments, a 49,500 square-foot affordable permanent supportive housing project in Long Beach, California, is approaching completion. The scaffolding has been removed and the cascading house forms are now legible along the street front.
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UNDER CONSTRUCTION / LUXE LAKES HOTEL AND WELCOME CENTER
The new Luxe Lakes Hotel and Welcome Center form the core of an innovative cultural district within a new planned community in Chengdu, China. The two buildings are located side-by-side and are designed as unique architectural landmarks and signature destinations for visitors.
Hotel left / Welcome Center right
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BREAKING GROUND / RIT MUSIC PERFORMANCE THEATER
Phase 1 of the RIT Music performance Theater project is scheduled to break ground in September. This phase includes a 750 seat Musical Performance Theater and Phase 2, a 1500 seat Concert Hall. Once completed, each will provide space for University music, theater, dance, and technology programs as well as for the community, supplementing the current options in the greater Rochester area.
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NEW EXHIBITION / MOODY CENTER FOR THE ARTS
For the summer 2023 exhibition, the Moody Center for the Arts presents an immersive exhibition by Houston-based multimedia artist JooYoung Choi (b. 1982, Seoul, South Korea). Featuring video, sculpture, painting, and a site-specific installation engaging the building’s architecture, Love and Wondervision invites visitors to experience Choi’s original, multidisciplinary world.
On view through August 26, 2023
photo courtesy Moody Center for the Arts
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GOETHE-INSTITUT LOS ANGELES / NEW EXHIBITION
Join Goethe-Institut LA, curator and artivista Marlené Nansi Lopez, and select artists on Friday, September 1st at 6:00 PM for the opening of the interactive exhibition Unlocking Sacred Spaces - The Public Art Movement in MacArthur Park.
Featuring "The Grieving Sun Mural" Marlené Nansi Lopez's capstone for her year as Activist-in-residence at UCLA, Unlocking Sacred Spaces brings artists together with local organizations and community members to imagine and design powerful public art installations that promote healing, culture, and spatial justice for the future of MacArthur Park.
On view through October 6, 2023
image courtesy Goethe-Institut
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HAMMER MUSEUM / 2023 BIENNIAL
Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living is the sixth iteration of the Hammer’s biennial exhibition highlighting the practices of artists working throughout the greater Los Angeles area. These practices embrace the value of craft, materiality, performance, and collectivity. The biennial situates art as an expanded field of culture that is entangled with everyday life; community networks; queer affect; and indigenous and diasporic histories.
Organized by Diana Nawi and Pablo José Ramírez, with Ashton Cooper, Luce Curatorial Fellow.
On view through December 1, 2023
image courtesy Hammer Museum
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WAG-QAUMAJUQ / NEW EXHIBITION
Inuit Sanaugangit: Art Across Time , on view at Qaumajuq, is a celebration of Sanaugangit, “art by Inuit” and a survey of artistic expression from approximately 200 BCE until the present day. A selection of over 400 works are on view, produced by artists from Siberia, Alaska, Canada, and Greenland. Contemporary Canadian work shares creative highlights from Inuit communities across the Canadian arctic from Nunavut, Nunavik, Nunatsiavut, and the Inuvialuit Settlement Region.
Curated by Dr. Darlene Coward Wight and Jocelyn Piirainen
On view through January 7, 2024
photo by Makaela MacKenzie
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INNER-CITY ARTS / SHADOW DAY
Michael Maltzan Architecture is a proud participant in the Inner-City Arts Shadow Day. This is when professionals from the creative sector invite Work of Art interns to come to their workplace for an individual work experience. Interns will be paired with organizations based on their current career interests. This visit creates a mentor/mentee relationship for a day, with students gaining an up-close look at a specific job, and possibly even affording the interns a hands on work experience that contributes in a meaningful way to the
organization.
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MMA IN THE NEWS / RECENT PRESS | |
LECTURES / DELIVERED BY MICHAEL MALTZAN | |
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UPCOMING
Michael Maltzan, Tulane University School of Architecture, Digital / October 20
Michael Maltzan, UCLA Architecture and Urban Design, Westwood, California / Nov 11
Architectural Record Panel, Los Angeles, California / Nov 13
Michael Maltzan, Pratt Institute School of Architecture, Brooklyn, New York / Feb 22
Michael Maltzan, Wahington University, St. Louis / April 4
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PAST
Mapping Grand Avenue, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angels, California / Aug 6
'T' Space Architecture Residency Roundtable with Sanford Kwinter, Julia van den Hout, José Aragüez, online / June 24
Michael Maltzan: What Can Architecture Be? Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois / March 9
Michael Maltzan, Arizona State University,
Tempe, Arizona / April 5
Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum
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AWARDS / SIXTH STREET VIADUCT, QAUMAJUQ, AND MORE | |
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2023
Building Team of the Year
Sixth Street Viaduct
AIA Los Angeles
Second-Place winner in Infrastructure
Sixth Street Viaduct
ACI Excellence in Concrete Construction
Urban Infrastructure
Sixth Street Viaduct
AZ Awards
Project of the Year Award
Sixth Street Viaduct
California Transportation Foundation
Golden State Honor Award
Sixth Street Viaduct
ACEC California
2022
AN Best of Design, Cultural
Qaumajuq
Architect’s Newspaper
AN Best of Design, Editor’s Choice
Sixth Street Viaduct
Architect’s Newspaper
Grand Prize
Sixth Street Viaduct
LABC Awards
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Award of Merit + People’s Choice
Quamajuq, Inuit Art Centre
AZ Awards
Platinum Award in Sustainability
Sixth Street Viaduct
Envision Awards
Pankow Award
Sixth Street Viaduct
ACI SoCal Concrete Awards
Award of Excellence
Quamajuq, Inuit Art Centre
Prairie Design Awards
Honor Award in Residential Design
Crest Apartments
American Society of Landscape Architects
Honorable Mention
Quamajuq Inuit Art Centre
International Architecture Awards
Honorable Mention
Vassar Street Residence Hall
International Architecture Awards
Winner
Broad Beach Residence
The Plan Magazine Award
Honorable Mention
Quamajuq, Inuit Art Centre
The Plan Magazine Award
Sixth Street Viaduct photo by Iwan Baan
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OBJECTS / TOTE BAG
The newest MMA designed tote bag features an architectural drawing of the new Los Angeles Sixth Street Viaduct.
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