REAL ESTATE
Award-Winner: A Koll Co. building designed by architects LPA Inc. in the Irvine Spectrum was the only building in Southern California to win one of seven awards given by the National Assn. of Industrial and Office Parks, an Arlington, Va.-based trade association.
The three-story office building is a joint venture between Koll, LPA, landscape architects Dike/Runa and Grubb & Ellis Real Estate Investment Banking Group. It also houses LPA’s and Dike/Runa’s new offices; one of the county’s largest architectural firms, LPA had been based in Orange.
The trade association said it reviewed 250 office and industrial projects around the country before bestowing the awards.
The 45,000-square-foot, $10.5-million building is 95% leased. LPA and Dike/Runa are the major tenants. The recently completed building’s steel frame was built so as to be visible, symbolic of the tenants’ links to the building industry, said Dan Heinfeld, president of LPA’s Irvine office.
“The desire for a more contemporary design was rejected in favor of a building which incorporated the inclusive modernism of the 1950s, where modern architecture was interpreted for the California climate,” he said.
