Michael Maltzan

Michael Maltzan is the principal architect at Michael Maltzan Architecture (MMA), a Los Angeles based architecture firm. The firm was founded in 1995.[1]

Maltzan won the design contest to build a new St. Pete Pier.[2] However, on August 27, 2013 St. Petersburg residents voted to cancel Maltzan's contract.[3]

The firm designed a 438-unit mixed use apartment complex, "One Santa Fe," in the Arts District of Los Angeles. The 6 story building, that opened in 2014, is a over 3/10th of a mile long (0.48 km) and holds 510,000-square-foot of interior space (47,000 m2) which does not include parking for 800 vehicles. The 438 units are set above an 80,000 sq. ft. retail/commercial podium. The design adds drama to what would otherwise be a wood frame slathered in white stucco above a concrete parking deck. A curling concrete parking ramp is located where the building faces the intersection of Santa Fe Avenue and 3rd Street and the structure has a 200-foot-wide opening (61 m) in the center of the project. A generous, eccentrically shaped courtyard is framed with a long bar that holds three stories of apartments above the opening.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Michael Maltzan Architecture
  2. ↑ Quirk, Vanessa (December 7, 2012) Despite controversy Michael Maltzan Architecture's Lens will go on ArchDaily
  3. ↑ Staff (August 27, 2013) "St. Petersburg: Foster and Kriseman headed to runoff, voters reject the Lens" Tampa Bay News
  4. ↑ Hawthorne, Christopher (October 10, 2014). "Maltzan's One Santa Fe apartment complex plays with notion of density". Los Angeles Times.

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