Berggruen Institute, Los Angeles
Commission
Berggruen Institute, Los Angeles

Berggruen Institute, Los Angeles

Commission


The new campus of Berggruen Institute in the Santa Monica Mountains is a landscape vision as much as an architectural project. A self-sustaining linear park, inspired by the gardens of the Alhambra, organizes the different elements of the program... [+]


Berggruen Institute

Partners 

Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron, Christine Binswanger (partner in charge)

Project Team

Simon Demeuse (associate, project director), Santiago Espitia (associate, project manager), Michel Frei (associate), Jeanne Autran-Edorh, Augustin Clément, Dave Edwards, Joshua Ehrlich, Niklas Erlewein, Gwendoline Eveillard, Laura Gonzalez Alastuey, Duyi Han, Julia Hejmanowska, Vasilis Kalisperakis (digital technologies), Ewa Kaszuba, Pawel Krzeminski (associate), Dan Ladyman, Christophe Leblond, Sahng O Lee, Dulcineia Neves dos Santos, Cristian Oprea, Gonzalo Peña, Romain Péquin, Alexander Reichert (associate), Philipp Schaefle, Elisa Siffredi, Leonid Slonimskiy, Axel Vansteenkiste, Joao Filipe Varandas, Finn Wilkie, Sandra Sarkunaite, Louie Weiss, Raneen Nosh, Tiago Baldaque Da Silva, Sahng O Lee, Christian Szalay, Emmanuelle Agustoni, Kathleen Dolphin

Planning

Gensler (executive architect), Nabih Youssef Associates, Robert Silman Associates (structural engineering), Psomas, Kpff (civil engineering), Leighton & Associates, Amec (geotechnical engineering), Michel Desvigne Paysagist (landscape architect), Arup North America (MEP engineering)

Consulting

Harvey Marshall Berling Associates (acoustics), Knippers Helbig Inc. (facade), BuroHappold Engineering (lighting), Transsolar (sustainability), Linscott, Law & Greenspan (traffic), Burns & Bouchard (community outreach), Plant Construction LP (construction manager, pre-con), Stuart-Lynn Company (cost estimator), Dudek (EIR biology), Eyestone-Jones Environmental (environmental impact report), Simpson Gumpertz & Heger (fire life safety)

Images

© Herzog & de Meuron