Design: Contest Attracts Innovative Amenities

Westside residents have been named winners in a contest aimed at improving the design of public amenities ranging from information stands to rest rooms.

The competition, “Civic Innovations,” was sponsored by the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, a nonprofit architecture and urban design group.

Winning art projects will be on display at the UCLA Extension at the Third Street Promenade gallery through Feb. 24. Engineers, urban designers and landscape architects were asked to address how to improve urban amenities. Winners received a $1,000 cash award for first place and $500 for second place.

Winners from the Westside included Keith Krumwiede and Carol Treadwell of Venice in the bus shelter/bus bench category. UCLA students Min Jin Park and Jeong Won Ryu won for their work in public rest room design. John Somerville and Mike Vanderhoff, students at Southern California Institute of Architecture, won first-place for their information-stand creations. Deborah Mackler and Amy Berssen were second-place winners in the same category.