Zoltan Pali, one of the architects hired to work on the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences future museum, has left the project, the academy has confirmed.

Pali, of the Culver City firm SPF:a, had been working with Italian architect Renzo Piano, who remains on the job at the site of the former May Co. building on the Los Angeles County Museum of Art campus.

The academy is scheduled to break ground on the $300-million museum later this year, with a planned opening in 2017. The 290,000-square-foot space will include galleries and movie theaters devoted to the art of cinema.

In a statement, the academy couched the move as standard procedure on a large architectural project.

There is nothing unexpected or untoward about the transition currently taking place within the Academy Museums design team, the statement said. As is customary with projects of this nature as they move closer to a final design, we are engaging an executive architecture firm to realize the vision created by the primary architects, Renzo Piano and Zoltan Pali. This being the case, Pali will now be stepping back from the project. Pali has been an instrumental part of the design team from its inception and we thank him for his incredible creative ingenuity, hard work, and dedication. Moving forward, the executive architectural design firm will be responsible for creating the detailed construction drawings as the project prepares for groundbreaking.

The academy has not named the executive design firm it plans to hire.

Pali, who recently transformed the Beverly Hills Post Office into the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, was already working on a renovation of the 1939 May Co. building when the academy decided to place its long-discussed movie museum there in 2012, and brought on Piano, a Pritzker Prize winner.

Piano and Pali would seem to have been an ideal partnership -- Pali was such a fan of Pianos work, he named a son after him.

But last week the Architects Newspaper reported on rumors that Pali was being quietly removed from the project, and over the weekend, the Hollywood Reporter said the two architects had clashed.

Neither Pali nor Piano could be reached for comment.

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Patrick Clifford receives architectures Gold Medal

The New Zealand Institute of Architects has conferred its top honour, the Gold Medal for career achievement, on Patrick Clifford, a director of the Auckland firm Architectus.

Under the design leadership of Patrick Clifford, Architectus has established a reputation for outstanding performance, the Institute of Architects says. There is an understated confidence to Architectus work. The practices buildings take their place in the cityscape with urbane and assured authority, and they possess a rare architectural quality they make the buildings around them look better.

Ian Athfield, the doyen of New Zealand architects, says Clifford is hugely respected within his profession.

Patrick is the most consummate architect I know, Athfield says. He is extremely consistent. He conducts his office and he does it very, very well.

Clifford, together with his long-time colleagues Malcolm Bowes and Michael Thomson and more recently Carsten Auer, is responsible for a series of highly acclaimed buildings in most of the areas in which New Zealand architects practice.

The firms record includes civic buildings such as Waitakere Civic Centre and New Lynn Station in Auckland; university buildings such as the new Campus Hub at Victoria University of Wellington (with Athfield Architects); school buildings such as the St Peters College Middle School in Newmarket and St Cuthberts College Performing Arts Centre in Epsom; sports building such as the West Stand at Jade Stadium, Christchurch (with Athfield Architects), and gymnasiums at Auckland Grammar School and St Kentigern School; commercial buildings such as Aucklands Telecom Central; and residential buildings such as Trinity Apartments in Parnell and Te Puni Village at Victoria University.

Architectus has also been active in urban design and planning, having designed the framework for Wynyard Quarter on the Auckland waterfront and several streetscapes in the city.

In conjunction with the Australian practices with which it is aligned under the Architectus brand, it has latterly developed expertise in the specialist area of law court design. Architectus was a finalist in the competition for the International Criminal Courts in The Hague, and designed the new Queen Elizabeth II Courts of Law in Brisbane.

The record really does speak for itself, the Institute of Architects says. In the context of New Zealand architecture Cliffords batting average is Bradmanesque.

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DIXON The first plans for the downtown streetscape project were unveiled at City Hall in January, and work is expected to begin this month.

But two local architects still are critical of the project.

John McLane and Dean Sheaffer, who had submitted proposed designs for the streetscape and done work with KSB Hospital or downtown, say that because no landscape architect was the lead professional on the project, the city missed out on incorporating design elements, signage and greenspace into the $5.7 million project.

The city contracted Wendler Engineering Services Inc. and Willett, Hofmann & Associates, for a combined $320,930, to do engineering work and planning for the project.

The Dixon-based firms divided the project in half.

Wendler took the west side, which includes: Peoria Avenue from River Street to Third Street; First Street from Highland Avenue to Hennepin Avenue; and portions of Second Street between Highland Avenue and Hennepin Avenue.

Willett Hofmann took the west side, which includes First Street from Hennepin Avenue to Crawford Avenue, and Ottawa Avenue from River Street to Second Street.

In 2010, the city did a streetscape project on part of Hennepin Avenue.

The engineering firms were instructed to use general design guidelines from that earlier project as they worked on this years streetscape project, said Wendlers Scott Brown, who is leading the project for his firms portion.

Brown said that aesthetic elements and greenspace were incorporated into the design where available, but he added that they were very restricted in what they could do because of space available downtown.

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