Ahmanson Founders Room

Ahmanson Founders Room
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AHMANSON FOUNDERS ROOM

Belzberg Architects

STRUCTURAL CONSULTANT
Gordon L. Polon Consulting Engineers

PROJECT TEAM
Hagy Belzberg, Principal; David Cheung, Project Manager; Barry Gartin, Bill Bowen, Brock DeSmit, Carina Bien-WIllner, Dan Rentsch, Eric Stimmel, Justin Brechtel, Warren Bradley Lang

CHIEF ENGINEER
Keith McTague

FURNITURE
Classic Design

MECHANICAL CONSULTANT
John Dorius & Associates

VICE PRESIDENT OF OPERATIONS
Howard Sherman

SPECIAL FABRICATION
Spectrum Oak

ELECTRICAL CONSULTANT
A&F Consulting Engineers

PLUMBING CONSULTANT
Tom Nasrollahi & Associates

CLIENT
Music Center

GENERAL CONTRUCTION
SAS Construction

PHOTOGRAPHS
Fotoworks

AREA
2500.0 ft2

YEAR
2006

LOCATION
135 North Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012, USA

CATEGORY
Music Center

Text description provided by architect.

The Ahmanson Founders Room is a 2,500 sqf addition buried in the first level of subterranean parking at The Music Center in downtown Los Angeles.

Ahmanson Founders Room
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Ahmanson Founders Room
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The sunken location of the room coupled with an almost clandestine preoccupation of exclusivity by the founders helped orient the design objectives.

Belzberg Architects pursued the development of sensual lighting schemes and unique applications of material and texture to create a warm place of respite between the congested streets of L.A. and the brimming communal areas of The Music Center on event night.

Ahmanson Founders Room
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Ahmanson Founders Room
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The materials used for the ceiling and walls were actually low-grade douglas fir lumber and medium density fiberboard.

However, sculpting the ceiling panels and perforating the wall panels with supple patterns and textures transformed low-grade into classy with stunning visual effects and a colorful saturation of the space.

The character and unique components of this room have become an entity for which the Ahmanson Theatre founders can identify with and claim as their own.

Ahmanson Founders Room
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Ahmanson Founders Room
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Ahmanson Founders Room
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Ahmanson Founders Room
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Ahmanson Founders Room
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