AWARDS

The American Institute of Architects Los Angeles presented PAR with the 2014 Presidential Emerging Practice Award, citing "notable, innovative achievements in design and service to the profession... This award is the highest honor that the American Institute of Architects Los Angeles can bestow on an emerging architecture firm for consistently producing innovative architecture."

The Chicago Athenaeum and The European Centre for Architecture have honored our Taichung Cultural Center proposal with a 2014 International Architecture Award. Chicago Athenaeum President Christian Narkiewicz-Laine states "The awards honor new and cutting-edge design, promoting international architecture to a public audience, dedicated to the recognition of global excellence in architecture and urbanism."

Our Taichung Cultural Center also received double honors at the International Design Awards where it was awarded 1st Place in the Conceptual Architecture category and 2nd Place in the Institutional Architecture category.

ISTANBUL ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL

PAR recently took part in The City and the World exhibition at the Istanbul Design Biennial in Turkey. Curated by Christian Narkiewicz-Lane, the exhibition showcased winners of the 2014 International Architecture Awards program, and will be followed by a traveling exhibition inside Europe and the United States. A catalogue will accompany the exhibition.

PUBLICATIONS

Deane Madsen profiled PAR in the October issue of ARCHITECT. His Next Progressives series looks at offices that represent a way forward and are on the leading edge of architectural practice and theory.

Michael Webb writes about PAR in the Nov/Dec issue of FORM.

RECENT

For the Guggenheim Museum Helsinki, a competition developed in collaboration with Arup, we proposed a gathering of eight soft volumes of varying sizes and undulating heights that reflect the surroundings while creating a porous urban condition. The pavilions lightly intersect with one another leading to a collection of exhibition spaces surrounded by public gardens. Check it out on World Architects.

Above: View from the Water, Bottom of Page: Plans, Sections

PAR completed new galleries in Los Angeles and London for IBID Projects. The Los Angeles gallery involved transforming an abandoned garage warehouse and large courtyard into a 12,000 sf exhibition and event outpost. Working closely with our client, we were able to preserve the original aura of the structure while at the same time, create a new spatial quality for the gallery. In London, we adapted an early 20th century townhouse into a flexible 300 sm gallery in Marylebone.

Construction of T House is ready for Spring 2015. Our design, characterized by a central void of interconnected spaces preserves the landscape it's characteristic fig trees by stacking the house within the tree boundary.

JURIES

Jennifer joins an international group of architects, cultural leaders and developers on the 2015 Architizer A+Awards Jury. Members including Barry Bergdoll, Steven Holl, Rosalie Genevro, Christopher Hawthorne, Sou Fujimoto and Joseph Grima will commence judging in Februrary.

In November, Jennifer was a Design Awards juror for the Southern California Development Forum. The awards recognize design excellence within the local communities.

In October, Jennifer was one of the judges for World Architecture News' Transport Awards held in London.