Join us for a fully illustrated program exploring how local adaptive reuse projects conserve resources, help the environment, save the city's historic heritage and preserve a sense of place and identity.
Live Virtual Event via Zoom
Sunday, November 6
5-6:30 p.m.
Proper Hotel; Photo by Steve Loeper; Howard Laks, Architect; Robert Chattel, Historic Architect
The Conservancy’s 20th Anniversary celebrations continue with this exciting virtual event!
Over time, the needs of a community can change. Buildings with rich histories and architectural value often become outmoded, underutilized, or abandoned altogether. Yet they can live on to serve new and different uses through the process of adaptive reuse. Adaptively reused buildings, whose exteriors are kept intact and authentic, can be creatively transformed on the inside while retaining the architectural characteristics and charm that reflect their original use.
Everything Old is New Again will offer attendees insight into several high profile adaptive reuse projects from around Santa Monica. Key team members will share behind the scenes details and images from their projects. With five speakers, seven segments and dozens of illustrations, this 90-minute livestream will be one of the Conservancy’s most ambitious virtual productions!
Featured properties include:
Pono Burger, once a military building now a hamburger restaurant. Presented by KFA, LLP Partner John Arnold, AIA.
The Proper, an office building now an upscale hotel and office complex. Presented by Howard Laks, AIA, principal at Howard Laks Architects, and historic architect Robert Chattel, president of Chattel, Inc.
The Conservancy's own Preservation Resource Center, formerly a shotgun house. Presented by Mario Fonda-Bonardi, AIA, Principal of Fonda-Bonardi & Hohman Architects.
In addition these featured projects, preservationist and founding Conservancy Board member Ruthann Lehrer will present snapshots of other notable adaptive reuse examples around Santa Monica.
And last but not least, the show will look at the future of adaptive reuse with a preview of Frank Gehry's Ocean Avenue Project, presented by Historic Architect Robert Chattel!
