This weekend marked the celebration of the opening of a extraordinary new public building in Rancho Mirage. The recently completed Sunnylands Center & Gardens is part of an important new initiative by the Annenberg Foundation, The Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands. The new Center is part of a desert landscape and architecture complex which includes the [...]
Be sure to catch Fred’s next lecture at UCLA’s Perloff Hall, Decafé on January 30 at 6:30pm. Fred will be highlighting recent and ongoing projects related to art spaces, dwelling, and public work. For further details regarding this program and other upcoming events at UCLA, refer to the department website: www.aud.ucla.edu
We are excited to announce that FFP’s Walter and Leonore Annenberg Center for Information Science and Technology at Caltech was tapped for “Project of the Year” for the 2011 Sustainable Innovation Awards. This is the inaugural year of this awards program by the Los Angeles chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council, which is intended [...]
Four projects were recognized for sustainable excellence by the Architectural Foundation of Los Angeles (AFLA) at last night’s AIA/LA Design Awards Gala, including FFP’s Sunnylands Center & Gardens at the Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands. The Design Green Awards were created in 2008 by the AFLA to support and recognize the metamorphosis of design as architecture [...]
Do not miss the upcoming show, Women Hold Up Half The Sky at the Skirball Cultural Center, co-designed by Frederick Fisher and Partners Architects. We hope you have a chance to see this important exhibition, opening this Thursday, October 27th through March 11th, 2012. Inspired by the critically acclaimed book Half the Sky: Turning Oppression [...]
A groundbreaking ceremony to kick off construction of the new Alfond-Lunder Family Pavilion will be held on Friday, October 21 at 6pm. The 26,000 square foot expansion to the Colby College Museum of Art is the third FFP-designed expansion to the Museum in the last decade. The $15-million project was initiated in response to Peter [...]
A British higher education magazine released their findings honoring Caltech with it’s top prize. The Pasadena University home to Frederick Fisher and Partner’s Walter And Leonore Annenberg Center for Information Science and Technology (pictured) won out over even Harvard University who has held that honor since the ranking began in 2004. For the full article from [...]