CultureNOW - Pacific Design Center: César Pelli, Gruen Associates and Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects

Pacific Design Center

Founded in 1977, Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects has earned a reputation for designing many of the world’s most recognizable buildings, including the World Financial Center in New York, the Petronas Towers in Malaysia, and the International Finance Centre in Hong Kong. Other projects retail and mixed-use projects, academic buildings, libraries, museums, research centers, residences and master plans for private clients, businesses, institutions and government agencies.

The firm's work reflects the belief that a firm must not be constrained by a signature style. Rather, great design arises from sincere collaboration with a client and a deep respect for a project’s environmental, economic and social contexts.

Pelli Clarke Pelli has been a leader in environmentally sustainable design for over a decade. The firm's designs included sustainable strategies even before the U.S. Green Building Council established its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program and our work includes the country’s first residential tower to achieve LEED Platinum, the program’s highest rating. Our vision of sustainability extends beyond the technical concerns of reducing a building’s energy consumption. To be truly sustainable, a design must address the economic and cultural factors that make a project successful long into the future.

Pelli Clarke Pelli designs buildings that are contemporary, broadly resonant and optimistic. It views architecture as a continually evolving art that can express the aspirations of our shared culture by drawing on architecture’s rich history, on evolving technologies, and on the partnerships with clients. The firm has received hundreds of design awards, including the American Institute of Architects’ most prestigious honor for an architectural practice, the Firm Award. In 1995, the American Institute of Architects awarded Cesar Pelli the Gold Medal, its highest honor for an individual. In 2004, the firm was awarded the Aga Khan Award for Architecture for the Petronas Towers.

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Architect
César Pelli

Design Architect
Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects

Associate Architect
Gruen Associates

Dates

Constructed, 1975
Addition, 1988
Addition, 2006

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Description

Affectionately referred to as the Blue Whale, the Pacific Design Center was designed by Cesar Pelli when he was Partner for Design at Gruen Associates. Phase I of the Pacific Design Center, located in the heart of the City's well-established trade center, provides showroom space to serve the specialized needs of professional interior designers, specifiers, decorators, architects and dealers involved in contract and residential design.

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Location

8687 Melrose Avenue
West Hollywood, CA 90069
United States

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