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Koning Eizenberg returns to its roots with the new Student Pavilion for the University of Melbourne

2024-07-03T18:33:00-04:00

A new higher ed project in Australia from Koning Eizenberg for the University of Melbourne has opened, bringing together student input on diversity, inclusion, and gender equity with the need for communal space. The design reference points pay credence to the institution’s progressive culture both past and future.

Image: Peter Bennetts

The firm's 27,000-square-foot Student Pavilion was inaugurated this past academic year and is meant to serve as a hub for commuter students. It is set within a newly created student precinct whose aim is to reinstate a "pre-colonial landscape" with respect and reconciliation to the Indigenous culture of the land's traditional owners.

Image: Peter Bennetts

The building's main circulation route is placed prominently on the exterior, adding a sense of exuberance while allowing for better socializing use of its projecting balconies and a series of mixed-use "informal" interior spaces by students.

Image: Peter Bennetts

From the outside, an exposed concrete s...

KoningEizenberg shares photos of 249-unit The Park housing project in Santa Monica

2024-02-14T15:32:00-05:00

KoningEizenberg has shared images of a new multifamily project at 500 Broadway in Santa Monica called The Park following its completion in April of 2022.

The development was realized at 299,000 square feet and includes a total of 249 market-rate units.

Photo: Eric Staudenmaier

KoningEizenberg says its design broke with several norms endemic to the local typology by creating a series of open public spaces at the street level that work to activate a connection to public transit using cross-grained massing.

Photo: Eric Staudenmaier

A one-acre rooftop garden completes the program with additional space for tenants while reducing urban heat island effects on the development. Retail spaces are included at the street level as well.

Photo: Eric Staudenmaier

Sarah Sze, an artist whose work is heavily influenced by architecture, provided a fitting final touch to the project with the addition of her sculpture Split Stone from 2019.

Photo: Eric Staudenmaier

The Park complim...

An open letter to LA's next mayor outlines 10 proposals to speed up the production of affordable housing

2022-09-30T13:20:00-04:00

The Los Angeles chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA|LA) has released an open letter to mayoral candidates Rick Caruso and Karen Bass suggesting 10 fixes to zoning requirements and the approval processes that would positively impact citywide efforts to tackle an ongoing housing crisis that has taken center stage ahead of the November election.

Echoing the tone of a recent LA Times op-ed, Koning Eizenberg principal and AIA|LA Government Outreach Committee member Brian Lane wrote on behalf of the organization, saying that, as the system is currently arranged, there are "a thousand ways to 'no.'" Their letter claims that city bureaucracy gets in the way of the design community's efforts and that production can be significantly increased via the proposed set of solutions.

"Dear Mayor," the text begins. "It takes about $600,000 and 5 years to build one affordable housing unit. That’s one person or family moved off the streets of over 69,000 experiencing homelessness in LA...

Marina Tabassum, Justin Garrett Moore among 2021 American Academy of Arts and Letters Architecture Award Winners

2021-04-16T13:45:00-04:00

The American Academy of Arts and Letters awards Marina, Tabassum, Justin Garrett Moore, Julie Eizenberg and Hank Koning, Dwayne Oyler and Jenny Wu, and Ersele Kripa and Stephen Mueller as the 2021 architecture award winners.

The jury chair Anabelle Selldorf and fellow jury members, including Steven Holl, Toshiko Mori, Thom Mayne, and Billie Tsien, selected this year's winners from a group of 32 nominated individuals and practices. The Academy awards four cash prizes that will provide further funding for each architect and designer in their efforts to pursue the realms of creative exploration within architecture.

Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize

Award Details: A prize of $20,000 is awarded to an architect of any nationality who has made a significant contribution to architecture as an art.

Marina Tabassum: She is the founding principal of Marina Tabassum Architects (MTA) located in Dhaka, Bangladesh...

Urban Intervention Finalist: Park by Koning Eizenberg Architecture + ARUP

2012-04-09T18:16:00-04:00

Back in March, three finalist entries were announced at Urban Intervention: The Howard S. Wright Design Ideas Competition for Public Space. [...] We had already published PRAUD's "Seattle Jelly Bean" proposal, and here's now also the finalist entry "Park" by Southern Californian practice Koning Eizenberg Architecture in collaboration with ARUP. All three finalist submissions are currently in the process of design phase two.

Also, Koning Eizenberg Architecture is currently hiring.