California Plaza Designer to Get AIA Gold Medal

Architect Arthur C. Erickson, the Vancouver, Canada, designer of California Plaza on Bunker Hill, has been chosen to receive the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects, the organization’s highest honor.

The 61-year-old architect, who has offices in Toronto and Los Angeles and is a member of the institute’s Los Angeles chapter, will receive the medal next June at the 1986 AIA national convention in San Antonio.

He was cited in his nomination for distinguished architectural accomplishments over the past 25 years and for “his creative imagination to build constructively toward the profession’s future.”