Office project honored.The 9900 Wilshire project was recently recognized by the Westside Urban Forum with an award for urban solutions. New Pacific Realty is proposing to develop the parcel, located at the western entrance to Beverly Hills Beverly Hills, city (1990 pop. 31,971), Los Angeles co., S Calif., completely surrounded by the city of Los Angeles; inc. 1914. The largely residential city is home to many motion-picture and television personalities. on the eight-acre site of the former Robinsons-May, as an environmentally sensitive, luxury condominium project. When completed, 9900 Wilshire will be the first of its kind in the West to achieve the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED Gold rating. It will use 25 percent less energy, 50 percent less water and emit fewer greenhouse gases than comparable residential buildings. The project is being designed by Richard Meier Richard Meier (born October 12 1934 in Newark, New Jersey) is an influential, contemporary American architect known for his rationalist designs and the use of the colour white. , who designed the Getty Center Getty Center, art museum complex in Brentwood, Calif. operated by the J. Paul Getty Trust. It consists of six buildings on 124 acres (50 hectares) located on a spectacular promontory overlooking Los Angeles. and won the Pritzker architecture prize Pritzker Architecture Prize World's most prestigious honour in the field of architecture. Established through the philanthropic efforts of the Pritzkers, a prominent Chicago business family, the prize, first awarded in 1979, bestows an annual award of $100,000 on an . |
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