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Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects will design the new Miramar Hotel, owner Ocean Avenue LLC announced Friday.

Ocean Avenue LLC spokesman Alan Epstein said the selection of the internationally renowned firm followed a thorough search process that included many of the worlds finest architects.

Pelli Clarke Pelli is a brilliant architectural firm," Epstein said. "Cesar and Rafael Pelli lived in Santa Monica for many years and have a deep understanding of the community. We look forward to working with them to create a new architectural landmark for the city.

Epstein said Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects would bring expertise to this project as it has hundreds of awards for design excellence.

He added that as a recipient of the Firm Award, the American Institute of Architects highest honor for an architectural practice, Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects was acknowledged as a master of its craft.

"We look forward to introducing Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects stunning design to the community in the months ahead," Epstein said. "Our goal has long been to return the Miramar to its rightful place as one of the greatest luxury hotels in Southern California, while increasing open space, protecting ocean views for the community and returning the Moreton Bay Fig tree to public view.

In 1991, Cesar Pelli was selected as one of the 10 most influential living American architects.

Four years later, the AIA awarded Cesar Pelli the Gold Medal, its highest honor for an individual. Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects has been a leader in environmentally sustainable design, having created one of the first 50 buildings in the world to achieve LEED certification.

Since then, nearly every project they designed has achieved LEED certification.

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How to Succeed in Architecture: Project Architects #39; Best Practices
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MONTPELIER -- The American Institute of Architects, Vermont Chapter (AIAVT) has announced the winners of its 2013 Annual Design Awards Program, awarding its Citation Award to Benningtons Centerline Architects & Planners.

Six projects -- including three "farmhouses" and a farm stand -- were recognized for design excellence by a jury of architects from the Boston Society of Architects that viewed 39 entries submitted by AIAVT member architects.

Centerline Architects & Planners, P.C., of Bennington received a Citation Award for "Down on the Farm," a collection of Salem, N.Y. structures dating back to 1840-1880 that now include a renovated farmhouse, dairy barn, and stable. Wherever possible, materials were salvaged and reused or repurposed -- including doors, floor planks, slate roof tiles, and marble. Jurors said, "There was a high level of creative thought about the existing buildings. Smart decisions were made, right down to the paint color. Structures were preserved and enhanced to remain sensitive to the farms history."

Middlebury-based McLeod Kredell Architects received two awards, including the Honor Award for a 1700-square-foot residence built for $283,000 on the recently subdivided Foote Farm, outside Middlebury. The jury, especially impressed with the outcome given the relatively modest budget, which included site work, said, "The building is quite beautiful and the relationship between inside and outside is very strong. It is beautifully sited and the materials have been combined to create a distinct sense of place. While there is a feel of traditional architecture, the work does not copy."

McLeod Kredell Architects also received a special category Collaborative Student Project Award for "Island Farm Stand," designed and built completely in the span of just one week with Marvel Architects, New York, N.Y., and eight architecture students from three colleges, including Middlebury College. The jury was impressed with the fact that participants came together on remote Bear Island in Penobscot Bay, ME, to construct a 160-square-foot structure on a materials budget of under $2,000. The farm stand will be used by a local school whose students will sell produce harvested from the school farm.

A Guilford "Sound Studio and Residence" project that included the restoration of an 1800s farmhouse was recognized with a Merit Award. The two-structure project was designed by Ryall Porter Sheridan Architects of New York, NY. "These two buildings walk the line of being simple, but beautifully done," said jurors. "There is a lot more work here than initially meets the eye. This is a simple yet elegant solution; even though it was fussed over, it doesnt feel that way." Brattleboro builder David Ross led construction of the Sound Studio and Guilford builder Shaun Murphy managed the restoration of the residence.

The Shelburne Museums Pizzigalli Center for Art and Education earned the Boston-based firm of Ann Beha Architects a Merit Award. About the project, by PC Construction of Williston, jurors said, "The center is modern and sensitive with a wonderful palette of materials that are harmonious with the site. The building responds well to Route 7 on one side and the other museum buildings on the other side. The building captures the spirit of Vermont without being too reverential."

The Welcome and Admissions Center at Roger H. Perry Hall at Champlain College garnered a Merit Award for Goody Clancy & Associates of Boston and contractor Engelberth Construction of Colchester. Champlain College Senior Vice President of Finance and Administration David Provost said, "In college admissions, first impressions are everything."

The college wanted a building that would immediately represent to a prospective student the progressive kind of educational opportunities the College provides, he explained. "Goody Clancy was up to challenge."

The jurors said, "The Welcome Center deals well with sustainability. The project respects the historic nature of the existing building and neighborhood and is very well integrated into the landscape.The project is also well refined and controlled while still taking some risks."

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A team of architects from the firm ACI Boland gave the Jefferson City Public Schools a C letter grade, in an appraisal they recently did for the districts Long Range Facilities Planning Committee which met Thursday night.

The districts elementary schools performed marginally better than its secondary schools, but both sets were rated satisfactory overall by the architects who used a rating system suggested by the Council of Educational Facility Planners International.

Michael Kautz, principal architect, said he and a colleague toured all the districts facilities, meeting mainly with principals, to gather their concerns. He said the appraisal tool essentially a scorecard is subjective, but used all over the country to evaluate school buildings.

Were comparing these facilities to new buildings that are being designed today, he noted.

Among the districts 11 elementary schools, only one Pioneer Trail was deemed excellent and eight were deemed satisfactory.

But West Elementary School and East Elementary School are teetering on the border between being acceptable and unacceptable, earning scores of 60.7 and 57.4 respectively.

(Interestingly, within Jefferson City, the two schools perform at opposite ends of the states accountability standards spectrum, with West Elementary earning 97 percent of the points the state awards for academic achievement and attendance and East Elementary earning 52.9 percent.)

The Southwest Early Childhood Center is considered a special building. It earned a 77 rating and was deemed satisfactory.

Among the citys six secondary institutions, the architects consider three of those buildings satisfactory and three of them borderline.

The older the buildings were, the worse they performed. The three borderline schools were Simonsen 9th Grade Center, the Jefferson City Academic Center (JCAC) Building and Jefferson City High School.

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How is this possible? The American Institute of Architects, the largest and most influential architecture organization in the country, had never, ever awarded a Gold Medalits highest honor, which it has been bestowing upon architects since 1907to a woman. Until now.

I only really have one question here.

The woman in question is no doubt worthy: Julia Morgan was the first female architect licensed in California and had a long and influential career, designing over 700 buildings. She is best known as the designer of Hearst Castle, collaborating for 28 years with the mercurial William Randolph Hearst.

Hearst with Morgan at the site of La Cuesta Encantada, better known as Hearst Castle, in 1926, photo by Irvin Willat

But she also designed dozens of YWCAs in California, including the the Asilomar conference center near Monterey; many private homes; and the gorgeous (and currently vacant) Los Angeles Examiner Building in downtown L.A. She majored in civil engineering at Berkeley and was an early expert in reinforced concrete construction methods, which came in especially handy after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

The Oakland YWCA, designed by Morgan in 1915, photo by Sanfranman59

It was a female AIA board member, Julia Dohono, who nominated Morgan after realizing the Gold Medal had never gone to a woman. She nominated Morgan because she felt that the organization needed to go back and recognize Gold Medal-quality women who were "overlooked," she tells Karrie Jacobs in Architect.

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