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KoningEizenberg

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KoningEizenberg

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KoningEizenberg

KoningEizenberg is known for its imaginative, site specific and people-oriented approach to the design of places of everyday living. Established in 1981 by Hank Koning FAIA, FRAIA, LEED AP, and Julie Eizenberg, AIA, with Brian Lane, AIA, LEED AP assuming a managing principal role in 2003, and Nathan Bishop LEED AP in 2011, the firm combines a discipline of tight budgets and a hands-on pragmatism with a commitment to sustainability and the value of informal social spaces. The firm’s fresh, contemporary aesthetic brings design excellence to a wide range of building types, from housing to community centers, schools to hotels, recreational facilities to retail, and work places to museums.

The firm appeals to clients and institutions interested in optimizing and rethinking oppor-tunities through a collaborative working-style rather than accepting the status quo. Today, Koning Eizenberg is well known, with over seventy design awards, extensive publication and individual recognition of the principals. The principals leverage this credibility to influence policy, as well as to craft buildings that, by example, raise expectations for design in the public realm.

We favor sustainable design strategies that highlight outside spaces and frame activities, people, and the landscape. In all projects we look for opportunities that informally encourage social interaction and support community—as is the case for our Children’s Institute International and Hancock Lofts housing project which transitions gracefully from boulevard to hillside neighborhood. As you will see from these projects, we gravitate to communities where there is opportunity to work with, or create, informal urban space. Working together we can craft buildings that highlight community, open space and sustainable values.

We offer extensive programming management and technical experience, which translates into an expeditious working style anchored in strong listening and communication skills and a belief in sharing rather than controlling knowledge. We have successfully developed programs and masterplans for private sector and city clients involving housing, retail, office, recreational, and learning environments. Technical ability in the housing sector is a core strength of our office as evidenced by the innovative and award winning residential projects featured over the following pages. We have designed and/or built over 2,500 units of housing and feel well qualif ied to assist our clients in the delivery of highly functional environments.

As longterm advocates of sustainability we continue to deliver groundbreaking LEED accredited projects like the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh (largest LEED Silver Museum in the US upon completion), Virginia Avenue Park (the first LEED Silver park to be completed in the US), and the award winning Century Building and Bike Center (expected LEED Gold in Pittsburgh). The Children’s Institute Westlake Campus in Los Angeles is projected to obtain LEED Silver certif ication in early 2011. We have six LEED certif ied architects on staff and while not all of our projects pursue LEED certification, we design with sustain-ability in mind.

Firm Profile

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Brian Lane, AIA, LEED® AP | Managing Principal Brian Lane is a Principal of Koning Eizenberg Architecture and has overseen many of the firm’s award-winning community buildings and housing projects. His experience spans a range of project types for governmental, commercial, non-profit and private clients. Mr. Lane has led much of Koning Eizenberg’s recent affordable housing work and contributes technical knowl-edge and design expertise in the production of multi-unit affordable and market-rate hous-ing–family, lofts, special needs and mixed-use. His visualization and graphics skills, combined with his planning knowledge, have enabled numerous cities and agencies to evaluate planning and urban design strategies. Recently, he has contributed to the dialogue on emerging ordi-nances that will aid housing production in Los Angeles.

Nathan Bishop, LEED® AP | Principal Nathan joined Koning Eizenberg Architecture full-time in 2006, and was promoted to Principal from Associate in 2011. His contributions include a focus on conceptual design and entitlement phases requir ing s ynthesis of develop er, c i t y, and communit y objec tives to optimize development potential. This work builds on his experience with prominent Massachusetts architectural/urban design firms and a broad range of high-profile projects and a variety of scales and building types. Running in parallel with his practice is an academic career, with a commitment to teaching design studios, courses in architectural history and theory, and seminars focusing on cultural studies and architectural representation.

Meet the Principals

Hank Koning, FAIA, FRAIA, LEED® AP | Principal in Charge of Technical, Regulation & AdministrationHank Koning is a founding Principal of Koning Eizenberg Architecture. His vision and creative thinking have driven the firm’s approach to both small and large-scale, as well as urban design, projects. He brings thorough material, sustainability, constructability, cost and code knowledge to building and site designs resulting in sensible and practical solutions. In 1992, Mr. Koning was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects and, in 1995, became a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. A member of the U.S. Green Building Council, he continues to lead the effort in integrating sustainable design ideas into quality design for healthy, environmentally-friendly buildings. His community involvement and planning exper-tise have been acknowledged in his appointment to the Santa Monica Planning Commission, charged with shaping the future development of the city.

Julie Eizenberg, AIA | Principal in Charge of Design & Master PlanningJulie Eizenberg is a founding Principal of Koning Eizenberg Architecture. She brings design vision and leadership to the f irm’s wide range of projects and is recognized for her expertise involv-ing cities, non-profit agencies, educational institutions and private developers. Ms. Eizenberg is an astute observer and institutional iconoclast leading investigations that reshape the way we think about the conventional buildings of everyday living. As a result of her design direc-tion, the f irm has won two national competitions—Chicago Public School Northside, and the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, which opened in November 2004 to widespread acclaim. Ms. Eizenberg teaches and lectures around the world and is a frequent advisor to the U.S. Mayor’s Institute on City Design.

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Selected ProjectsKoning Eizenberg Architecture is known for its imaginative, site-specific and people-oriented

approach to the design of buildings and places of everyday living. Informed by a long-

standing commitment to sustainable architecture and strategic innovation tweaking

populist conventions, we have set new benchmarks for a range of building types from

housing and community places, to schools and museums. The following pages feature

projects across a range of building types and scales.

Hancock Lofts

Abbot Kinney Mixed Use

Century Building & Bike Center

Hollywood Hills Hotel

AMP Lofts

The Village

Hollywood and Garfield Housing

Landmark at Santa Monica and La Brea

Harold Way Apartments

Waterloo Apartments

Birch Street Apartments

28th Street Apartments

Children’s Institute, Inc

The Standard Downtown LA

Mixed Income / Mixed Use

Entry Level Market Rate Housing / Mixed Use

Mixed Income / Mixed Use

Hotel

Market Rate Housing / Mixed Use

Affordable Family Housing / Artist’s Lofts

Mixed Use

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Mixed Use

Affordable Supportive Housing

Non-Profit Children’s Services Center

Hotel

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City

Program

Client

Completion

Awards

West Hollywood, CA

38 units , 31 condominiums, 7 af fordable studios , 11,600 sq. f t. of retail space, 156 public parking spaces and 61 residential parking spaces

CIM Group (with City of West Hollywood for public parking)

2009

2011 AIA Housing Award2010 Woodworks Award 2010 Residential Architect Merit Award 2010 AIACC Merit for Architecture2009 International Design Merit Award2005 Westside Prize Honor Award Mixed-Use

Hancock Lofts

A developer/architect team was selected by the City of West Hollywood

to develop a cityownedsite, address a shortage of parking, and flush

out a program for housing and retailspace through a community process.

The design’s non-conventional approach leveragesthe irregular,

sloping lot to reinforce street life as well as create an unexpected

rooftopopen space. Public parking is located underground while

residential parking loops upand over street level housing to place an

active use along the side street. Architectural expression is rooted in

sustainable strategies. All units are cross ventilated and slidingwood

screens are used to shade boulevard flats and moderate the level of

engagementwith the busy street below.

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City

Program

Client

Completion

Venice, CA

22 units, 58,036 sq. f t.

Tooley Interests LLC

2008

Abbot Kinney Mixed Use

Abbot Kinney Mixed-Use is designed to embrace the gateway nature

of this important site in Venice, CA. The ground level is programmed

with small spaces (approximately 1,000-1,500 sq. ft. each) that draw

retail interest to the southern portion of eclectic Abbot Kinney Bou-

levard and in so doing generate pedestrian activity along Venice Bou-

levard. The residential loft units, located on the project’s upper floors,

are separated from the retail space. Individual units are designed to

maximize flexible living by incorporating high ceilings, natural light

and a variety of unique interior spaces. A combination of private and

shared open space is provided for residents on the podium level. The

project provides two affordable units at the very low income level

and 20 market rate apartments.

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City

Program

Client

Completion

Awards

Pittsburgh, PA

61 units, 6,000 sq. f t. commercial space

TREK Development Group

2010

2010 AIA Pittsburgh Preservation Award2010 Pennsylvania Commonwealth Award2010 AIACC Award

Century Building& Bike Center

The historic 68,000 sq. ft. (12-story) Century Building in downtown

Pittsburgh was built in 1907. This expected LEED gold, adaptive reuse

project now houses 61 units of mixed income housing (40% afford-

able) offering raised platform studios to two bedroom loft units.

Amenities include a rooftop patio as well as a community room and

gym on the 3rd floor. The ground level restaurant remains and floors

2 and 3 were gutted and renovated for office use. A Commuter Bicycle

Center located on the North easement provides residents, and the

public, secure bicycle storage and animates the street.

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City

Program

Client

Completion

Awards

West Hollywood, CA

44,000 sq. f t., 86 room hotel and café (no new area added) on .92 acre site

Best Western Hollywood Hills Hotel

2011

2011 AIA Housing Award2010 Woodworks Award 2010 Residential Architect Merit Award 2010 AIACC Merit for Architecture2009 International Design Merit Award2005 Westside Prize Honor Award Mixed-Use

Best WesternHollywood Hills Hotel

This hotel remodel is not for purists but presents a strategy for

celebrating and intensifying the vitality of messy urbanism on a

budget. In this case, that means accepting a gritty location, two

imperfect, mismatched buildings and a glamorized context. The

design approach dissolves the line between graphics and architecture

to cost effectively create a fitting identity for its location below the

“Hollywood” sign and next to the freeway. Work included a number

of strategic components from mundane maintenance and paving, to

a Klieg light mural and coordinated awnings that provide shade and

also conceal window AC units. Exterior painting includes a striped

beach towel inspired pattern for the renewed pool court. Interior work

comprises new offices with lobby and reception spaces featuring the

owner’s Hollywood photo memorabilia. A new canopy along with

reconfigured parking, landscaping, lighting and signage reorients the

main entry away from a busy thoroughfare to a tree lined parking court

and guest drop off area.

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AMP Lofts

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City

Program

Client

Completion

Awards

Los Angeles, CA

180 units, 5,000 sq. f t. retail

American Moving Parts

Entitlement Design 2005

Merit Award AIA Los Angeles Chapter2000 Merit Award AIA California Chapter

This project for a 180-unit, live/work community at 7th and Santa

Fe, just south of downtown Los Angeles, is informed by it ’s “high

resolut ion – low intensit y ” conte x t . I t resp onds with a set of

straightforward organizational strategies that define edge/center

and establish a clear identity for progressive urban living that works

with the gritty informality and coherent urban gridiron of it’s light

industrial setting. Two-story live/work units are located at the the

street to establish strong edges. 5,000 sq. ft. of retail is located at the

Southwest corner to stimulate street activity. The green-screened

parking structure acts as a podium for loft units. On the podium,

the 3-bar organization allows for interal open-air streets, courts,

overhead walkways, daylight to below, and cross-ventilation for all

higher units.

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City

Program

Client

Completion

Awards

Santa Monica, CA

160 units, 189,000 sq. f t

The related Companies of CA, City of Santa Monica, Community Corporation of Santa Monica

Projected 2013

2008 Westside Urban Forum Award

The Village

Koning Eizenberg was one of three f irms collaborating on the

masterplan and design of The Village in Santa Monica’s Civic Center.

The project includes market rate and affordable housing, artists’

housing, retail, infrastructure, and public open space. Planning

strategies addressed traf f ic, density, height, and open space to

converge into an innovative solution revolving around a “living

street.” The linear conf iguration organizes housing types into

distinct neighborhoods, taking advantage of the irregular sloped

site. The Village transforms the original Civic Center concept into a

more neighborly and sustainably responsive masterplan, bridging

between the grain of the adjacent residential neighborhood and the

larger scale of the Civic Center buildings. The project is slated for a

LEED Silver rating.

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City

Program

Client

Los Angeles, CA


Bond Companies Comnstruction Documentation

Hollywood and Garfield Housing

Hollywood and Garfield is a mixed-use, transit oriented housing

project located near one of LA’s burgeoning subway lines in “East

Hollywood.” The project incorporates both market rate and afford-

able units. Along Hollywood Blvd., the façade makes subtle refer-

ences to the “art deco” character of early Hollywood with a striped

vertical composition of creamy smooth troweled stucco and dark

metal panels, windows and sunshades which contribute to the LEED

certif ication goals along with other features such as storm water

retention systems and green walls. Along the side street the project

transitions from a “boulevard building” to a residential complex in

both façade treatment and massing which steps down one story. The

project was fully developed using BIM (building information model-

ing) software to track program areas and facilitate coordination and

design refinements.

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City

Program

Client

Completion

West Hollywood, CA


Combined Properties, Inc.

Designed 2006

Landmark at Santa Monica and La Brea

The City of West Hollywood solicited proposals from developer/archi-

tect teams to create a signature mixed use residential development

at the Eastern gateway to the city. One of two finalists, this proposal

organized two residential towers over retail and green screened

public courtyards. Restaurants and community spaces anchor the

North end while the “gateway” corner supports major retail and is

highlighted by an array of glowing projecting frames. The frames

would be powered by photoluminescent material that absorbs light

during the day and converts to light energy at night.

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City

Program

Client

Completion

Awards

Hollywood, CA

52 units, 47,284 sq. f t.

Hollywood Community Housing Corp.

2003

2004 Residential Architect Merit Award 2004 LABC Architectural Award 2003 AIA Los Angeles Citation Award

Harold Way Apartments

Economy, safety, cleanliness, and community inform the design of

these affordable housing units. Trees anchor a large courtyard, a

social space that includes a laundry and barbeque pits. The zig-

zagging center building, clad in wood battens with vines defines

the cour t yard in a casual way. Cross-ventilation precludes air

conditioning, and recycled building materials include the composite

wood used to face balcony balustrades.

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City

Program

Client

Completion

Awards

Los Angeles, CA

18 units, studios and 1 bedrooms

Hollywood Community Housing Corporation

2002

2006 Alan J Rothman Award: AIA/ HUD Secretary’s Award for Housing Accessibility2003 Residential Architect Design Award: Grand Prize Affordable Housing2003 LA Business Council Architectural Award2002 Southern California Association of Non-Profit Housing: Special Needs Project of the Year

Waterloo Apartments

Working with a non-profit housing developer, the design for the

Waterloo Affordable Apartments navigates a multitude of funding

source requirements including HUD, the Los Angeles Community

Design Commission, and the Los Angeles Housing Department.

Simultaneously we negotiated a public review process that achieved

a 100% density bonus. Designed through a series of community

meetings with neighbors concerned about density and traffic, this

18-unit project focuses on a central courtyard/gathering spot for

residents, including disabled veterans, seniors, and individuals HIV.

The community preference for the craftsman style surmounted fear

about development and became an inspiration for design.

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City

Program

Client

Completion

Brea, CA

12,300 sq. f t. retail

CIM Group

1999

Birch Street Lofts

This mixed-use project provided the Birch Street Redevelopment Area

in Brea with affordable rental housing above community retail space.

The 24 loft style units (with parking in an adjacent public parking

structure) were fully leased over the opening weekend.

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City

Program

Client

Completion

Los Angeles, CA

49 units, 38,000 sq. ft. new construction and renovation

Clif ford Beers Housing, Inc.Expected 2013

28th Street Apartments

Designated as Los Angeles’ Cultural Monument #851, this YMCA building was originally designed by Architect Paul Williams in 1926. It was one of Williams’ f irst residential/community projects. The project will follow Secretary of Interiors Standards and Guidelines for Rehabilitation. Working with Historic Resources Group and Los Angeles Planning Department Office of Historic Resources, careful consideration is being given to the scale, materials, and features of the building renovation and addition to retain and enhance its historic character and relationship to the neighborhood. The program includes: 49 units (with kitchens and baths) of permanent, supportive housing for low-income individuals, a courtyard, and roof garden. The ground f loor has of f ice space for community groups and a restored gymnasium.

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City

Program

Client

Completion

Los Angeles, CA

47,000 sq. f t

Children’s Institute, Inc.

April 2011

Children’s Institute Inc.

This 47,000 sq. ft. project entails the adaptive reuse and creative

rehabilitation of three light-industrial buildings in a gritty inner-city

Los Angeles neighborhood. On a tight budget, the design deinstitu-

tionalizes the sensitive social functions of the organization, through

a combination of innovative planning and the limited insertion of

new architectural/graphic components. The program includes a

preschool, individual therapy rooms, administrative off ices, and

large multipurpose spaces for community programs. The completed

project will provide much needed community and family services to

this high-risk neighborhood and will serve as the regional operational

headquarters for this rapidly growing non-profit organization.

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City

Program

Client

Completion

Awards

Los Angeles, CA

203 guest rooms, 139,000 sq. f t., 12,700 sq. f t. park-ing

Children’s Institute, Inc.

April 2011

2005 AIA Los Angeles Merit Award; 2003 AIA California Council Merit Award2003 LA Conservancy Preservation Award2003 LA Business Council Architectural Award2003 Westside Urban Forum Prize

The StandardDowntown LA

The Standard Hotel used state preservation tax credits to convert the

original Superior Oil Co. Headquarters. Existing features—such as

the exterior, front doors, and lobby—anchor the design. To accom-

modate guest traff ic the renovation moved the primary entry to

the rear, adding an outdoor lounge and dining area. On the upper

floors, deep office floorplates necessitated extensive reworking and

special configuration of the guest rooms. Rooftop, a poolside bar has

popularized the concept of the stylish budget hotel and contributed

to the revitalization of downtown Los Angeles.

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Related ProjectsAdaptive Re-Use

Planning

Housing

Century Building Pittsburgh PA

The Village Santa Monica CA

Hancock Lofts West Hollywood CA

Children’s Institute Inc. Otis Booth Campus Los Angeles CA

Urban Intervention Competition Seattle WA

Takeout House Pasadena CA

The Standard Hotel Downtown Los Angeles CA

Historic Farmers Market Los Angeles CA

Duane Apartment New York, NY

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Education

Culture/Civic

Commercial

Wildwood Elementary Los Angeles CA

Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PA

Best Western Hollywood Hills Hotel Hollywood CA

Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PA

Children’s Institute Inc. Otis Booth Campus Los Angeles CA

Thornton Tomasetti Office Los Angeles CA

PS1 Elementary Santa Monica CA

Virginia Avenue Park Santa Monica CA

Gilmore Bank Los Angeles CA

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