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AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE AWARD

Our Wilshire Tower proposal has won a 2016 American Architecture Award from the Chicago Athenaeum and European Centre for Architecture. The proposal was developed for the Architecture + Design Museum as part of Shelter, an exhibition that questioned how new forms of housing can respond to changes in the cultural fabric and physical landscape of Los Angeles. With Wilshire Tower, we were interested in reimagining the skyscraper for a future, denser Los Angeles and explored how individuality and nature, two qualities emblematic of Los Angeles living, could be integrated vertically in the sky.

“The American Architecture Awards program,” states Chrisian Narkiewicz-Laine, President of The Chicago Athenaeum, “showcases the best of new American building design and urban design-oriented research by the nation’s foremost visionary designers.” In December 2016, an exhibition of the winning projects entitled New American Architecture, opens in Athens, Greece. A catalogue will accompany the exhibition.

With special thanks to BuroHappold Engineering.

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AIA|LA AWARDS JURY

The American Institute of Architects has invited Jennifer to join the 2016 AIA Los Angeles Design Awards Jury. A distinguished jury including Ma Yansong, Christopher Hawthorne and Tom Wiscombe will commence on September 23rd and the winners will be announced at the AIA|LA Design Awards Ceremony on October 24, 2016.

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US EMBASSY PRIZE

Our proposal for the Guggenheim Museum Helsinki has won the US Embassy Special Prize in a juried exhibition at Interarch 2015, the XIV Triennial of Architecture in Sofia, Bulgaria. The building is a collection of eight soft pavilions of varying sizes and undulating heights that reflect the surroundings while creating a porous urban condition. The volumes lightly intersect with one another leading to a collection of exhibition spaces surrounded by public gardens. The resulting 12.100 m2 institution is a transparent and light building, clustered between Helsinki and the Baltic Sea. Check it out on World Architects.

XIV Triennial of Architecture, Sophia, BG
Exhibition Schedule: May 17-20, 2015

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2X2 INTERNATIONAL DESIGN AWARDS

PAR’s Taichung Cultural Center and Helsinki Central Library each receive double honors at the 7th annual International Design Awards (IDA). The Taichung Cultural Center was awarded 1st place in the conceptual architecture category and 2nd place in the institutional architecture category. The Helsinki Central Library received 2nd place recognition in both the conceptual architecture and institutional categories. Both projects will be celebrated at the IDA gala ceremony later this year.

Structural, Climate & MEP: Buro Happold
Visualization: Luxigon

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2X2 INTERNATIONAL DESIGN AWARDS

PAR’s Taichung Cultural Center and Helsinki Central Library each receive double honors at the 7th annual International Design Awards (IDA). The Taichung Cultural Center was awarded 1st place in the conceptual architecture category and 2nd place in the institutional architecture category. The Helsinki Central Library received 2nd place recognition in both the conceptual architecture and institutional categories. Both projects will be celebrated at the IDA gala ceremony later this year.

Structural, Climate & MEP Engineering: BuroHappold Engineering
Visualization: Luxigon 

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AUTHOR   PAR

PAR LONGLISTED WAN 21×21 AWARD

PAR is honored to be one of 50 international firms longlisted for World Architecture News 21×21 Award which recognizes 21 outstanding architects as forward thinking architectural leaders of the 21st Century. The WAN Award is presided over by an esteemed jury including Martha Thorne, Executive Director of the Pritzker Architecture Prize and Ma Yangsong, Founding Partner of MAD Architects. Winners will be announced at a private exhibition held on May 22nd in partnership with ARUP in London.

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PAR WINS NATIONAL AIA AWARD

For a second year in a row, PAR has won a National Emerging Architecture Award from the American Institute of Architects. We are currently taking part in the annual awards exhibition which promotes compelling work of the rising generation of American architects. The exhibition opened on March 20th at the American Center for Architecture.

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AJ EWAA NOMINATION

Jennifer has been nominated for the Architects Journal Emerging Woman Architect of the Year Award. Winners will be named in London on March 22nd.

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