AIA Los Angeles honors city's best projects and architects in 2021 AIALA Design Awards

The annual AIALA Design Awards winners have been announced following a gala in front of a sold-out crowd at the chapter’s awards party at the new SoFi Stadium in Inglewood.This year's winners include a diverse range of projects across varied typologies, from a new Canadian museum project from Michael Maltzan Architects to private residences in Marin County and Lehrer Architecture's tiny homes collaboration with the Los Angeles Bureau of Engineering in North Hollywood. Multiple projects from Steinberg Hart took home top prizes among the twenty-one completed projects and sixteen additional unbuilt NEXT LA winners that were awarded by the jury for their “urban generosity” and attendant "sense of dignity, timelessness."A note on sustainability was made by the awards' requirement that each entry be a signatory of the AIA's 2030 Challenge. Additionally, each Honor-level winner was required to submit project data to the AIA's Data Exchange platform in order to be considered.  “Los Angeles continues to be a forward-leaning capital of architecture,” AIALA President Wade Killefer remarked. “Designers based here, and the architecture realized in the city, demonstrate how design may be harnessed to address the pressing threat of our time, climate change; and the crisis of so many people without housing.” Scroll down for a full list of recognized projects and images of this year's Honor Award winners.2021 AIALA DESIGN AWARD WINNERSRead the full post on Bustler