Modernizations and upgrade of a 100+ year old structure. Upgrades to the historic property include full seismic retrofit, energy efficient design of electrical and lighitng systems, interior design standards to unify the campus built over several phases, and addition of a hi-tech STEAM Lab to enrich the student experience. The STEAM Lab will be at the heart of the school in a glass box that allows views to the historic character while creating a space that is bright and modern. Additional upgrades to the schools passive and active mechanical design will make the school a healthier environment, integrating fresh air flowing new approaches to healthy building design wherever possible. All new work is folded into the existing footprint of the building, protecting the historic facade and views from the adjacent neighborhood.

Location: Malibu, CA
Year Designed: 2014
Status: In Design

The project replaces an existing school and administrative offices with ten new classrooms serving their preschool, religious program, and community hand in hand special needs program.  The Type-I structure over parking garage will incorporate green technologies including passive heating and cooling and planted roofs.  The structure also houses a community room and chapel space.  

The religious space will use material and light to evoke spirituality and be the signature space for the Malibu Jewish Center & Synagogue.  The building is carefully sited to make best use of the spectacular site and protect the adjacent natural habitats.  The project will realize the master plan for the Jewish Center drawn up nearly twenty years ago.

Location: Los Angeles County
Status: On the Boards

Redevelopment of Southern California Golf Club into world-class golf club and boutique resort. The site plan study was completed by Studio MLA as part of a full master plan redesign of the club. Study includes proposed bungalow design of 37 stand alone buildings with a total of 160 guestrooms.

Location: Hayward, CA
Year Designed: 2008
Areas: 6 Acres
Office: 150,000 sqft.
Residential: 162 Units
Hotel: 150 Rooms
Conference Center: 23,000 sqft.
Status: On the Boards

The mixed-use Hayward City Center Campus was designed to enhance community connections and to serve as a transition between the adjacent commercial and retail. The proposed project will feature nearly equal ratios of commercial office, residential and hospitality uses that will function symbiotically with the adjoining retail center. An existing 11-story, 150,000 square foot tower anchors the center of the site and will be capped with a new penthouse floor.  Next to the tower, a 3-level 700-car garage will be retrofitted, wrapped in a planted “Greenscreen,” and topped with a new landscaped podium and 162 new residential units organized around two courtyards.  On the opposite side of the tower, a modern, sustainable conference facility, hotel and community-service building (housing a child-daycare center and a gym) will be built.  The extensively re-landscaped campus grounds will unify the existing and new construction and will be left open for the community to enjoy. Cross-site pedestrian paths will be established to enhance the walk-ability of the neighborhood.

Location: Los Angeles, CA
Year Designed: 2002
Area: 480 acres
Status: Uncertain

Since the 1970's, City Officials envisioned the Southpark District of Downtown Los Angeles as a residential complement to the densely packed Financial District.  In May 2002, a large retail/entertainment developer proposed building a football stadium in Southpark, just east of the Staples Center, to lure a professional football team back to Los Angeles, removing the possibility for housing in Southpark.  Our collaborative team of developer Forset City Enterprises and urban planning firm Calthorpe & Associates proposed an alternative to the football-centered development; one that could also accommodate housing. The "Southpark Focus" combines the plan for a football stadium with the need for housing in Downtown Los Angeles, with a third component, an expanded Convention Center.

Our proposal demonstrates how a 68,000 seat stadium, 480,000 sqft. of entertainment and retail space, a 6,000 seat performing arts theater, two 1,200 room hotels, 1,400 units of university housing,  and an additional 250,000 convention center expansion could co-exist with a residential neighborhood of 3,000 dwelling units above commercial space intermixed with ample park space.

Location: Los Angeles, CA
Year Designed: 2003
Area: 160 acres

Following the successful Southpark Focus project, David Lawrence Gray Architects was asked by Councilman Nick Pacheco to develop a master plan for a stadium on a site located in his district.  Wedged between the LA River, a rail yard and two freeways, the site has long been neglected and blighted, and proved to be a challenge.  The firm was able to identify the site's potential for urban renewal and to synergistically improve the residential neighborhoods adjacent to it.

The stadium would help prompt the conversion of the concrete-lined LA River to a re-naturalized river, lined by a park that would stretch for several miles through downtown.  The Stadium site, which would be approx. 80% park - stretches like a finger into the residential neighborhoods of Boyle Heights and Lincoln Park, providing residents direct access to a large-scale urban park that downtown Los Angeles so desperately needs.

Location: Santa Monica, CA
Year Designed: 2001
Area: Office & Parking: 310,000 sqft.
Campus: 4 acres
Status: On the Boards

The Steelworks Campus Plan was designed to be an extension of the original Steelworks building - both conceptually and physically.  The program called for 110,000 sqft. of office space, 3-level sub-grade parking garage and 80,000 of communal atrium space.  The atrium of the original Steelworks building was continued across the campus to serve as the main circulation axis - as well as serving as an organizational element for the massing of the new building.  Double loaded office corridor wings extend out from the atrium axis, and the undulating ground plane provides outdoor space to all three floors of offices at one point or another.
A large portion of the site was left open above ground level to help enhance the campus environment in this densely packed area of the city.  The green design and campus like setting of the site are intended to create an environment that induces collective creativity. In addition, a large portion of the ground plane was designed to be for public use in an effort to "give back" to the city.