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April 28 , 2008 On the heels of the LEED Platinum rating announcement for our WATER+LIFE Museums, comes lots of press! CurbedLA.com; CurbedSF.com; The Press-Enterprise; US Green Building Council; AllHeadlineNews.com April 15 , 2008 Today the USGBC announced that our WATER+LIFE Museums, completed by Lehrer Gangi Design Build, have obtained a LEED Platinum rating making it the first museum to achieve this level of certification. Lehrer Architects would like to thank all of our fellow team members and consultants who worked tirelessly over the past year preparing our submittal. It really was a team effort! March 20, 2008 “It’s the whole system that ultimately defines what your building footprint is.” – Michael Lehrer Michael recently spoke with Eco-Structure magazine to discuss our award winning Water + Life Museums. Visit eco-structure.com for more info, or click HERE to view the full article. March 10, 2008 Lehrer Architects LA has been selected as a finalist for the International Interior Design Association (IIDA) Award. There were over 300 projects, of various types, considered for the award. The winner will be announced this June at NeoCon in Chicago. January 16, 2008 The Sustainable Buildings Industry Council announced today that Lehrer Architects has won their Beyond Green™ 2007 High Performance Buildings award for the WATER+LIFE Museums. All applicants were challenged to demonstrate the successful application of the whole building approach and show how they maintained the proper balance of eight design objectives (accessible, aesthetic, cost effective, functional, historic, productive, safe/secure and sustainable) that make up a high performance building. Click here to learn more about our WATER+LIFE Museums project. January 14, 2008 This week’s Los Angeles Business Journal and ArchitectureWeek.com recognizes Nerin Kadribegovic, who was recently promoted to Associate Director at Lehrer Architects. Congrats, Nerin! January 12, 2008 The Riverside Press Enterprise features the Water + Life Museums. January 7, 2008 Lehrer Architects wins NATIONAL AIA HONOR AWARD for design of our studio!!! The art of Michael Lehrer is featured in this month’s Architectural Record, in the “Architect’s Hand” column. Take a look. January 4, 2008 The regional publication, Whole Life Times, features the LA Office as an “(En)Lightening Workspace” in an article about “Finding Our Happy Place: Why ‘where we are’ is ‘how we are’ is ‘who we are.’ December 27 , 2007 Congratulations to our team member Ellen Pietrzyk on becoming LEED Accredited Professional. December 14 , 2007 Lehrer Architects is featured prominently on the Current TV, Nobel laureate Al Gore's TV station, for our Parking Day design. Also, Architect Online and The Architects Newspaper both recently featured the massive SUV cutout November 14 , 2007 Congratulations to our team members; Tim Jordan and Erik Alden on becoming LEED Accredited Professionals. October 15, 2007 Architect Magazine’s Product Spec Guide featured our Water + Life Campus as the cover article. Full details can be found here: September 21, 2007 As part of this world-wide event, we designed an installation to visualize the carbon footprint of our city’s primary mode of transportation. Each mile a SUV emits 1.57 pounds of CO2 into the Los Angeles air. Converted to volume, it fills 99 balloons September 20, 2007 The Los Angeles Times previews tomorrow's Parking Day LA, highlighting our design. September 18, 2007 Lehrer Architects will be honored on Thursday, September 27th at the AIA Pasadena Foothills Design Award ceremony. The Lehrer Gangi Design team won the only Honor Award presented at this year's ceremony for the Water+Life Museums and Campus. July 31 , 2007 DVL Museums have just been featured in Green Source Magazine...click here for more info... July 24 , 2007 Michael B. Lehrer wrote an article in the summer issue of focus, the AIA California Council Newsletter. The article is called, “Loving Community: The Act of Intimacy of the Citizen Architect". July 03 , 2007 AIA LA presented Lehrer Architects with a Design Award for our Silverlake office on June 21st at the Beverly Hilton. Award submissions will be on display at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Center on UCLA’s campus through July 16th. This is the fifth design award we received for the LA Office. “In just a few moves, the architect has created a lovely space to work, where the interior corresponds to the building and the furniture is sculpting the space. I would really like to work there.” An AIA LA Design Award Juror May 31, 2007 Lehrer Architects received two Gold Nugget Grand Awards at the Pacific Coast Builders Conference. One was for the LA Office, in the category of Best Rehab Commercial/Industrial Project. LA also received a Grand Award, with Gangi Development, for the WATER + LIFE Museums at Diamond Valley Lake in the category of Best Sustainable Commercial Project. The team also received the Award of Merit for Best Public/Private Use Facility for the Museums. May 20, 2007 Michael B. Lehrer, FAIA, received the Plato de Oro from Homeless Healthcare Los Angeles in recognition of his commitment to our City’s underserved. This annual award is the only honor the nonprofit bestows May 17th, 2007 Diamond Valley Lake Museums have been featured in the current issue of Architects Newspaper. May 14th, 2007 Lehrer Architects wins 2 Gold Nugget Merit Awards for their Offices and Diamond Valley Lake Museums. May 1st, 2007 Lehrer Architects will host the Silver Lake Film Festival's Sustainable LA panel discussion and After Party on Sunday, May 6th at 4:00 PM. April 30th , 2007 Lehrer Architects Diamond Valley Lake Museums are featured in Azure's Green Revolution themed magazine. Click here for the jpg. April 16th, 2007 ArchNewsNow.Com explains how our Water + Life Museums in the desert offer engaging environmental lessons, both inside and out. April 6th, 2007 Lehrer Architects hosts LIFE DRAWING every other Wednesday. January 26th, 2007 Lehrer Architects has just recieved Contract Magazine Award for our Studio in small office category. January 25th, 2007 Diamond Valley Lake Museums have been featured as a US Green Building Council Case Study. Please click here for more information. January 23rd, 2007 Our award-winning Norton Towers, a high-end, multi-family residential complex in West Hollywood, is featured in a new book by James Grayson Trulove called The Modern Townhouse. Click here for the excerpt (2.5Mb) from the book. January 20th, 2007 Temple Bat Yahm is featured in a new book by Michael J. Crosbie called Houses of God. Click here for the excerpt from the book. January 17th, 2007 Our Diamond Valley Lake Museum Complex (along with Gangi Architects) is featured prominently in this month’s LA Architect. Click here for Morris Newman’s article. December 28th, 2006 Michael and Mia Lehrer featured alongside other Harvard Alumni, including Barack and Michelle Obama and Silda Wall and Eliot Spitzer, as "Power Couples" in Harvard's new publication 02138. Click here for the PDF. December 8th, 2006 Temple Bat Yahm’s green architecture is currently featured on the Business Week magazine website. December 7th , 2006 Lehrer Architects is hiring. Find out more here. November 12th, 2006 Lehrer Architects won the 28th Annual Interiors Award by Contract Magazine for the design of our offices in Silverlake. October 20th, 2006 Barnsdall Art Park is honoring Michael and his wife, Mia Lehrer, on November 4th. We’d love to see you there! CLICK HERE FOR INVITATION. October 17 , 2006 As one of the three finalists MLA in collaboration with Lehrer Architects presented their scheme for the Cornfields site. July 31, 2006 Lehrer Architects in partnership with Mia Lehrer and Associates has been chosen as one of the three finalists in the State Historic Park Competition at the Cornfields site in downtown Los Angeles. Los Angeles Times article has more... June 30, 2006 Michael B. Lehrer was quoted in the cover article of this week’s edition of Los Angeles City Beat. Click here to read the article about the homeless issue in downtown Los Angeles. June 15, 2006 Our AIA Kick-off party was a success. Bob Ivy, of Architectural Record, thought so too. See for yourself.... May 19 , 2006 New images of Diamond Valley Lake Museums have been posted... May 22,2006 Lehrer Architects is hiring... please click here for more information April 18 , 2006 Lehrer Architects won an award from Los Angeles Business Council for the design of our offices July 27th , 2005 After 20 yrs at Talmadge St. Lehrer Architects has MOVED to a new location at 2140 Hyperion Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027-4708. Our phone and fax numbers remain unchanged. Please address all future correspondence to this new location. November 20th , 2004 Lehrer Architects has won the Business Week/Architectural Record Honor Award for James Wood Community Center! Please see Archrecord.com for more information. In addition Norton Towers is featured on the site in the Building Types Study showcasing Multi-Family Living. August 02, 2004 Lehrer Architects is pleased to announce that James Wood Community Center has become a finalist for the prestigious Business Week / Architectural Record Honor Award. The results of the competition will be known in November of this year. June 17, 2004 Norton-Towers-On-The-Court and Temple Bat-Yahm both received a Grand Prize in their respective categories from Golden Nugget Awards in San Francisco. June 11 , 2004 Norton-Towers-On-The-Court received an Honorable Mention in Urban Solutions-Environment Category from Westside Urban Forum in Los Angeles. April 30, 2004 Norton-Towers-On-The-Court and Temple Bat-Yahm both received an Award of Merit from Gold Nugget Awards. April 12, 2004 Norton-Towers-On-The-Court has received the Los Angeles Business Council Architectural Award in the category of housing. The awards ceremony will be held at The St. Regis Hotel on Thursday, May 13 from 11 am to 2 pm. March 19, 2004 Norton-Towers-On-The-Court has received the National Housing PIA Award in the category of multi-family dwellings. Established in 2000 to recognize the best examples of housing design, the program emphasizes the importance of good housing as a necessity of life, a sanctuary for the human spirit, and a valuable national resource. The recipients of the 2004 Housing Awards will be formally recognized by the Housing PIA Committee PIA at the 2004 AIA National Convention and Expo in Chicago, June 10–12. February 4, 2004 CONGRATULATIONS !!! Michael B. Lehrer has been elected to the College of Fellows of The American Institute of Architects in the category of Design for promotion of the aesthetic, scientific and practical efficiency of the profession. Quote from the acceptance letter states: "The Jury of Fellows selected you for elevation to Fellowship in the Institute because of your notable contributions to the advancement of the profession of architecture". The Investiture Ceremony will be held at the National AIA Convention and EXPO in Chicago. January 15, 2004 Norton-Towers-On-The-Court has received the Residential Architect Design Award for multi-family housing. The award will be presented at the National AIA convention and EXPO in Chicago. September 20, 2003 Temple Bat Yahm was published as the winner of the AIAOC in the Orange County Business Journal. September 19, 2003 AIA Orange County named Temple Bat Yahm the Top Honor Award winner among 70 other contestants. The jury was comprised of Robert Ivy, editor in chief of Architectural Record, and Los Angeles Architects Mark Mack and Mehrdad Yazdani. September 05, 2003 James M. Wood Community Center has been featured in the article by Jane Kolleeny of the September 2003 edition of Architectural Record. August 19, 2oo3 Temple Bat Yahm has been published in July/August edition of LA ARCHITECT in the "Houses of Worship" article by Alison Miliones. June 26, 2oo3 The Light House has just been featured in a new book from Loft Publications and Feierabend. "La Casa" features over 200 contemporary residences all over the world. June 15, 2oo3 Lehrer Architects received another award for "James M. Wood Community Center". Westside Urban Forum honored our firm with its 2003 Westside Prize."  |
