LPA, Inc.

BREAKING NEWS!!! The American Institute of Architects (AIA) honors LPA with 2025 AIA Architecture Firm Award, the "highest honor the AIA bestows on an architecture practice." https://lnkd.in/gpXQM4YJ #changinglivesbydesign #everythingcounts #thereisalwaysaway #wedontdothisalone #noexcuses

North Texas' fast-growing life sciences sector risks losing key players if it doesn’t address the needs of mid-size companies. In D Magazine, Isabel Mandujano RA LEED-AP explores the “missing middle,” and the role developers can play in supporting companies at a critical stage. https://lnkd.in/gcxdUABt #changinglivesbydesign #DFW #lifescience #innovation #healthcare #startups #missingmiddle #CRE #labdesign #labplanning #architecture #engineering, I2SL: International Institute for Sustainable Laboratories, BioNTX, Dallas Innovates

Forty leaders from University Health recently joined LPA’s healthcare team in San Antonio for a workshop on Lean design thinking and operational best practices. LPA Director of Healthcare Muhsin Lihony, AIA and UH Senior VP Katherine Reyes shared strategies to eliminate waste, enhance efficiency, and improve the patient and caregiver experience in healthcare systems. https://lnkd.in/g3pgh-dm #changinglivesbydesign #Lean #leandesign #leanconstruction #healthcaredesign #healthcare #architecture, Lean Construction Institute (US)

LPA received three Merit Awards in the 2024 ASLA Sierra Chapter Design Awards, which celebrate innovative landscape architecture across central and northeastern California. The three projects — two office campus transformations and the master plan for a public park — revitalize urban spaces in different ways while promoting ecological vitality and resilience. https://lnkd.in/gDDihe8b #changinglivesbydesign #landscapearchitecture #norcal #designawards #designexcellence #designforecosystems #designforwater #designforchange

Earlier this year, LPA’s healthcare team welcomed visitors into the “Big Room” where we're collaborating with Hoag Health System, Jacobs and McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. on the $1 billion Sun Family Campus Expansion in Irvine. The Big Room - or “Obeya” in Japanese – is a Lean approach that co-locates members of the integrated team to speed communication and reduce siloed thinking. The sell-out AIA Orange County event featured LPA’s Greg Schneekluth AIA CDT, Wendy Sunshine Dailey, Casey Chapin, AIA, LEED AP and Michael Michalek.

The San Diego Union-Tribune recently took readers inside the Granger Hotel, a private boutique hotel recently opened in San Diego's Gaslamp Quarter. LPA collaborated with Oram Hotels to transform the 120-year-old building, once home to banks and zoo animals, with a playful, luxurious design that balances modern sensibilities with meticulous preservation. https://lnkd.in/gN7xVBYr #changinglivesbydesign #hospitalitydesign #hoteldesign #historicpreservation #sandiego #luxuryhotels Hospitality Design

Learning landscapes blend play and education in creative, engaging ways. The new Catalyst magazine explores the collaboration between LPA landscape architects and Santa Ana Unified School District to bring life and learning into the outdoor spaces at Washington Elementary School. https://lnkd.in/gkpVN5Qj

Healthcare Design offers a first look at Hoag Health System's transformative $1 billion Irvine expansion, designed in collaboration with LPA. The Sun Family Campus reinvents the modern hospital as a walkable campus of specialty institutes. Stand-alone pavilions dedicated to women’s health, cancer and digestive health, surgery and other specialties blend with their landscape to create a seamless healing environment. https://lnkd.in/gHSGufcC #changinglivesbydesign #healthcaredesign #healthcare #architecture #healingspaces #underconstruction #socal

LPA designers pulled out the glue gun and X-Acto knifes to explore ideas for a new theater project. The old school handmade model, complete with paper cutouts of the audience, offered a perspective often overlooked in the age of 3D printing and AI-powered renders. “I can hand you a model and you can actually navigate it yourself,” LPA managing director Damon Dusterhoft says. “You can imagine yourself in that space.” https://lnkd.in/gGbaDzr9 #Catalyst #changinglivesbydesign #architecture #design #models #oldschoolcool

LPA recently celebrated a major milestone in Hoag Health System's $1 billion Irvine campus expansion, as the final steel beam was placed on the new Cancer and Digestive Hospital Pavilion and Women’s Hospital Pavilion. The project is set to transform healthcare delivery across the region with a new health and wellness village model designed for patient-centered care. https://lnkd.in/drKi3Sy8 #changinglivesbydesign #healthcare #design #architecture #socal #construction #sustainability Hoag Hospital Foundation