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California Preservation Awards PDA program sq.qxp_square 10/5/17 4:30 PM Page 1 OCTOBER 13, 2017 INTERCONTINENTAL MARK HOPKINS HOTEL SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA PRESERVATION AWARDS © Bayview Opera House, David Wakely Photography PDA program sq.qxp_square 10/5/17 4:30 PM Page 2 BOARD OF TRUSTEES President Andrea Galvin, El Segundo Vice President, Programs Kyle Normandin, Pasadena Vice President, Development Chris Wasney, AIA, Palo Alto Treasurer Christine Lazzaretto, Pasadena Secretary Amy Minteer, Esq., Redondo Beach Matthew Berkley, MA, Glendora Adrian Scott Fine, Los Angeles G. Taylor Louden, AIA, Los Angeles Naomi Miroglio, FAIA, San Francisco Greg Mix, Danville Deborah Rosenthal, Esq., Irvine Bill Schaeffer, Napa Kurt Schindler, AIA, Berkeley Andrew Wolfram, LEED AP, AIA, San Francisco Sally Zarnowitz, AIA, San Jose STAFF Executive Director Cindy L. Heitzman Field Services Director Jonathan Haeber Administrative Services Xavier Melendez CALIFORNIA PRESERVATION FOUNDATION The Hearst Building 5 Third Street, Suite 424 San Francisco, CA 94103-3205 415.495.0349 californiapreservation.org PDA program sq.qxp_square 10/5/17 4:30 PM Page 3 THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE CALIFORNIA PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INVITES YOU TO THE 34TH ANNUAL CALIFORNIA PRESERVATION AWARDS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2017 All proceeds from InterContinental Mark Hopkins Hotel this event support 999 California Street, San Francisco the California Preservation 6:00–7:00 pm Cocktail Reception & Silent Auction Foundation’s statewide education 7:00–7:45 pm Dinner and advocacy programs. 7:45–8:45 pm Presentation of the 34th Annual Preservation Design Awards & President’s Awards © Cowell Lime Works Hay Barn PDA program sq.qxp_square 10/5/17 4:30 PM Page 4 ANNUAL SPONSORS CORNERSTONE Spectra Company, Pomona PEDIMENT Cello & Maudru Construction Company, Napa Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc., Pasadena CORNICE Architectural Resources Group, Inc., San Francisco Carey & Co. a TreanorHL Company, San Francisco CAW Architects, Inc., Palo Alto ELS Architecture & Urban Design, Berkeley EverGreene Architectural Arts, Brooklyn GPA Consulting, El Segundo Historic Resources Group, Pasadena IS Architecture, La Jolla Kelly Sutherlin McLeod Architecture, Long Beach Page & Turnbull, Los Angeles Simpson Gumpertz & Heger, San Francisco TEF Design, San Francisco California Preservation Awards 2017 4 PDA program sq.qxp_square 10/5/17 4:30 PM Page 5 PRESERVATION DESIGN AWARDS SPONSORS CAPITAL Ferry Building, San Francisco Plant Construction Company, LP, San Francisco PILLAR CAW Architects, Palo Alto TEF Design, San Francisco ZFA Structural Engineers, Santa Rosa SUPPORTING McCloud River Mercantile, McCloud Port of San Francisco Rudolph and Sletten, Roseville FOUNDATION Critchfield Mechanical, Inc., San Jose CYS Structural Engineers, Inc., Sacramento Indow, Portland Joni L. Janecki and Associates, Santa Cruz Kaplan Chen Kaplan, Santa Monica Redwood Electric Group, Inc., Santa Clara Sebastian & Associates, Landscape Architecture, Laguna Beach 5 California Preservation Awards 2017 PDA program sq.qxp_square 10/5/17 4:30 PM Page 6 2017 PRESERVATION DESIGN AWARDS JURY Kurt Schindler, FAIA, LEED AP Josh Callahan the Peace Corps in Niger, West Africa, Principal, ELS Architecture and Urban Design Jamestown, San Francisco building sustainable housing using mud bricks and middle-eastern construction Awards Chair and PDA Jury Chair Josh Callahan is a Senior Vice techniques. Jeff is a registered architect and President of Asset Manage- Kurt Schindler is a principal has previously served as a director for AIA ment at Jamestown. He leads at ELS and directs the firm’s San Francisco. Currently, he is a board the West Coast portfolio from historic and seismic renovation member with the City of Hope Real Estate projects. Over his professional Jamestown’s San Francisco Council, the Olympic Club Building career he has been involved office. Prior to joining Committee, and San Francisco Heritage. in master planning, program- Jamestown, Mr. Callahan was a Project ming, design, and feasibility studies for Manager at Wilson Meany LLC, where he dozens of historic and cultural facilities. He worked on notable redevelopment projects Lisa Gimmy, ASLA, LEED AP possesses a special expertise in assessing including 140 New Montgomery, and the Lisa Gimmy Landscape Architecture the adaptive reuse or upgrade potential of reuse of Naval Station Treasure Island. Los Angeles Prior to Wilson Meany, he held development existing buildings. His award-winning historic Lisa began her landscape renovation projects include the renovation and finance roles with Community Housing Developers, a non-profit provider of low- architecture career with an and restoration of the national landmark extensive background in art 1903-33 Mission Inn, in Riverside, California, income housing, and Catellus Development Corporation. Mr. Callahan volunteers with and art history, and her passion the 1939 Martin Luther King, Jr. Civic Center for art and architecture con- in Berkeley, California, the 1929 Arlene the San Francisco Produce Market. He received a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor tinue to inform her work. Since Schnitzer Concert Hall at the Portland founding her firm in 1992, she has directed Center for the Performing Arts, the 1923 of Science from the Huntsman Program at the University of Pennsylvania, and a Master the design of landscapes for campuses, Union Pacific Railroad Station in Anaheim, schools, hotels, multi-family housing, and California, the 1912 16th Street Train Station of Business Administration from Harvard Business School. many private gardens. Lisa’s in-depth Re-Use Plan in Oakland, California, the knowledge of design history has led to her 1904 Temple Sherith Israel Seismic Upgrade selection to renovate landscapes for many in San Francisco, California, and the 1923 notable houses, including modernist homes Grand Theater Center for the Arts in Tracy, Jeff Gherardini Plant Construction, San Francisco by Carl Maston, Richard Neutra, Rob Quigley, California, the 1928 Oakland Fox Theatre, and Eugene Kinn Choy, and the creation of the 1927 California Theatre renovation and Jeff is a Vice President and a courtyard garden for a historic home in expansion, the 1929 Pleasanton Firehouse Project Executive for Plant Antigua, Guatemala, a World Heritage Site. Art Center in Pleasanton, and the 1894 St. Construction Company. In Most recently, she developed and oversaw Mark’s Lutheran Church in San Francisco. 1998, his first project as an the landscape restoration for Heineman and He recently completed renovation of the Assistant Project Manager was Heineman’s Hindry House, with its historic 1915 Old Administration Building at to renovate the landmark swimming pool designed by Courtland Paul. Fresno City College and the 1934 Civic Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. Since then, Her work has been recognized by the Los Auditorium in San Jose. Jeff has continued to gain experience in the Angeles Conservancy, California Preservation Mr. Schindler received his Bachelor of renovation, seismic upgrade, and adaptive Foundation, Docomomo, and ASLA Southern Architecture and Master of Architecture reuse of historic structures while working on California. Lisa is a founding member of The degrees from the University of California, projects like the Walt Disney Family Museum, Cultural Landscape Foundation’s Steward- Berkeley. Mr. Schindler is active with the the Palace Hotel, the ACT-Strand Theater, ship Council and has helped build awareness California Preservation foundation and the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National of Southern California’s cultural landscapes the United States Institute of Theatre Park, and a variety of buildings in the Presidio. through her participation in ‘What’s Out There’ Technology, and has presented at the Prior to Plant, Jeff obtained a Bachelor of weekends and Garden Dialogues. She is a League of California Cities. Arts in Architecture from Washington lifetime member of the Society of Architec- University in St. Louis and a Master’s degree tural Historians, Southern California Chapter. in Architecture from UC Berkeley. In between She earned her MLA from Harvard Graduate attending those institutions, he served with School of Design. California Preservation Awards 2017 6 PDA program sq.qxp_square 10/5/17 4:30 PM Page 7 Diane Kane, PhD San Francisco building into a 87,000 sf, collections of site-specific art at their La Jolla 200-key concept hotel, the historic northern California home, Oliver Ranch. renovation of the Sainte Claire Hotel (built The Oliver Ranch Foundation website is Diane Kane is retired from the in 1926) and the historic rehabilitation and www.oliverranchfoundation.org City of San Diego, where as a adaptive reuse of San Francisco Shriner’s Senior Planner to the Historical Hospital to an assisted living facility. Susan Resources Board, she handled contributes generously of her time and H. Ruth Todd, FAIA, AICP, LEED AP large-scale historic surveys as energy to environmental advocacy and Principal, Page and Turnbull, San Francisco part of the long range planning education. She has designed projects to Ruth Todd is an architect and process. Previously, she was the Heritage meet all levels of LEED certification including urban designer and principal Resources Coordinator for Caltrans, District 7 a recently certified LEED Platinum building. at Page & Turnbull, a San in Los Angeles, where she conducted Sec. Susan received her Bachelor in Architecture Francisco-based architecture, 106 and CEQA review of historic properties at the University of Texas at
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