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8/26/2003 — McCormick, Smith & Others in collaboration with Lloyd Russell, AIA has been selected as the winner of the National Endowment of the Arts "Innovations in Community Design and Housing Competition" sponsored by Livable Places. McCormick, Smith & Others were selected from a pool of over 90 architectural firms nationwide. The five finalists included: Brian Healy Architects, Boston, MA; Behnisch, Behnisch & Partners, Germany and Venice, CA, Blackbird Architects, Santa Barbara, CA; Central Office of Architecture, Los Angeles, CA, and Touraine & Richmond, Los Angeles, CA.
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The McCormick, Smith & Others winning scheme was chosen for its innovative approach to prototypical solutions for the re-use of the low-density commercial "strip-style" corridors that predominate much of the urban landscape in Southern California. By placing more housing along these corridors, in concert with the development of pedestrian oriented community serving retail, the winning scheme would serve as a welcomed neighbor to the traditionally lower-density housing in the blocks behind the commercial corridor and could help revitalize the urban transit corridor.
The 10-acre site along the eastern edge of Long Beach Boulevard is located
two blocks north of the Blue Line Light Rail Station at Pacific Coast
Highway. While the exploration of the 10-acre master plan area was largely
theoretical, Livable Places, Inc. expects to develop 50 units of mixed
income housing on a one acre site that will be designed by the competition
winner. Construction is expected to begin in early 2005. An
exhibit of the work of all five of the finalists will be held at the
Los Angeles Museum of Architecture and Design in early spring 2004.
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Under the National Endowment for the Arts New Public Works Grant Program, Livable Places in conjunction with the Local Initiatives Support Corporation sponsored a design competition for a mixed-use sustainable affordable housing and urban design project.
Livable Places, Inc. has been established by a group of affordable housing advocates and environmentalists to promote a more livable and sustainable Los Angeles region. Livable Places’ mission is to provide more livable and sustainable affordable housing on problematic urban sites and to influence and change the vision of urban policy makers and voters.
The competition called for the urban design of approximately ten acres and the design and planning of Phase I. This will include approximately 50 units of for sale affordable sustainable housing, mixed-use commercial/retail and other site amenities.
Stage one of the competition was open to licensed architects and architectural firms in the United States. Five finalists were selected by a competition committee composed of members of the jury and Livable Places to compete in stage two of the competition. Each of the selected finalists was given an honorarium of $10,000 plus a travel stipend to prepare an Urban Design site plan for the 10 acres, and schematic plans, a perspective, and elevation of the proposed 50 units.
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Angela Brooks
President
Livable Places
Charles Brown
City of Long Beach
Neil Denari
Architect
Anita Berrizbeitia
Landscape Architect
James Grauley
Bank of America
Mark Mack
Architect
Roger Sherman
Architect
Competition Advisor
Richard Weinstein
Professor, Dean
Graduate School of
Architecture and Urban Planning, UCLA, 1985-1994
Please direct any inquiries to Claire
Bowin. No phone calls please.
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