Planning and Design Work Earn Top Design Awards
PMA’s designs and planning for public and private clients earn five top honors.

In Fall 2023, Beach Cities Health District Healthy Living Campus, DMV Inglewood Field Office Replacement, and Slauson Connect Recreation Center earned impressive local and national honors. Each project, whether for municipalities or regional non-profits, tackled difficult sites, engaged diverse user and client groups, and applied sustainable practices and materials to create community-focused green infrastructure. The following are the honors by project:  

Beach Cities Health District Healthy Living Campus (BCHD) – this master planning effort received an Honorable Mention from the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies. Their American Architectural Awards are the nation’s highest and most prestigious distinguished building awards program that honor new and cutting-edge design in the United States. 

Read more about the project here: Beach Cities Health District Healthy Living Campus — Paul Murdoch Architects

DMV Inglewood Field Office Replacement – this design project for the State of California’s Department of General Services was honored with a Sustainable Innovation Award in the Energy / Operational Carbon category from the Los Angeles chapter of the USGBC. A total of seventeen projects were honored. DMV stood out because of its innovative Zero Net Energy approach that blends architectural form and sustainable integration as a new model for State facilities.

Read more about the project here: DMV Inglewood Field Office Replacement — Paul Murdoch Architects

Slauson Connect Recreation Center – this project was the big winner this season with honors from

The Chicago Athenaeum, Los Angeles Business Council (LABC) as part of their Architectural Awards, and the Westside Urban Forum, a Los Angeles-based non-profit focused on land use that impacts Los Angeles’ Westside. The project has been lauded for the design’s ability to accommodate diverse program types in a small space and take advantage of difficult site constraints to produce a true community resource in underserved South Los Angeles.

Read more about this exciting multi-use community center and linear park here: Slauson Connect Recreation Center — Paul Murdoch Architects