Structure Type: landscapes - parks - urban parks
Designers: Daniel, Mann, Johnson and Mendenhall (DMJM) (firm); Phillip James Daniel (architect); S. Kenneth Johnson (architect); Anthony John Hale Lumsden (architect); Arthur Edwin Mann (architect); Irvan F. Mendenhall (civil engineer/structural engineer); Cesar Pelli (architect)
Dates: constructed 1965
DMJM's project for Sunset Mountain Park Urban Nucleus Project, Santa Monica, won first prize in an architectural competition staged in 1965-1966 (First Award winner in the 1966 Progressive Architecture Magazine [P/A/] Awards Program). Cesar Pelli and Anthony Lumsden were active in the design process.
Unbuilt. Like some of Le Corbusier's designs of the 1920s and 1930s, this project consisted of a megastructure, concentrated in square footage to preserve as much of its 3,550-acre natural surroundings as possible.
PCAD id: 7610