HGA Happenings: May 2024

The HGA-designed headquarters for West Bank celebrated its opening with a ribbon cutting ceremony in West Des Moines, Iowa. Nestled in a commercial district, the state-of-the-art facility will breathe new life into the area, underscoring West Bank’s dedication to the communities it serves. Collaborating closely with West Bank, HGA designed the four-story building with a blend of private and open office spaces, versatile meeting areas, and zones for hosting and entertaining customers. Key features of the new headquarters include a rooftop terrace and a lower-level patio, which opens onto a landscaped water feature, providing additional spaces for gatherings. The building’s exterior, clad in natural stone and glass, is accentuated by strategic lighting, making the structure visible from the interstate in the evening. Learn more, here. 

HGA attended an open house for the Cicely Tyson Residential Building, which is part of the Hollywood Arts Collective, a new development designed to meet the affordable housing and space needs of Los Angeles’s cultural community and support economic and job development goals of the City of Los Angeles. The project is a collaboration between The Entertainment Community Fund, Thomas Safran & Associates, and a range of stakeholders from the City of Los Angeles. The Tyson Building was concepted by the HGA with BSB Design as the housing and executive architect. The project includes 152 affordable housing units for artists and a commercial component, also designed by HGA for the Entertainment Community Fund’s West Coast headquarters. The project also includes a new Arts Building fronting Hollywood Boulevard that will provide the community with performance and visual arts spaces, including the Glorya Kaufman Theater, a new home for Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, an incubator space for LAUSD, and public meeting spaces for the Entertainment Community Fund.

The San Diego Symphony has announced its 2024-2025 season, set to begin this fall at the newly renovated Jacobs Music Center. HGA is excited to see the curtain rise on the revitalized, almost century-old theatre. HGA collaborated with the Symphony on the renovation of the historic Fox Theatre, working alongside acousticians from Akustiks and theatre planners from Schuler Shook. Highlights include a reconfigured stage, a new choral terrace behind the orchestra, a reshaped main seating level, new seating and finishes, restored architectural details, modernized lighting, sound, video, and recording equipment, updated and expanded support spaces for musicians, and enhanced audience amenities. Completion of Jacobs Music Center signifies a new era for the San Diego Symphony, transforming the historic theatre into a modern concert venue where the symphony and the community can flourish for generations to come. Learn more, here. 

The HGA team participated in a groundbreaking ceremony for the new Enloe Health Gonzales Cancer Center. The new center will fill a need for comprehensive cancer care in Butte County, where cancer is the leading cause of death. HGA’s design includes various holistic and biophilic elements including a healing garden, a family lounge with an outdoor patio, and a quiet room. The three-story facility offers an abundance of natural light, soothing colors throughout, and clear wayfinding, designed to create a calming environment. The third-floor infusion suite offers views of nature, including mountains to the east, and a variety of locations for treatment including community infusion spaces, private rooms, and infusion bays. Staff respite areas are located on each floor, including access to the outdoors, reinforcing Enloe Health’s commitment to staff wellness, Read the full story, here. 

HGA has been selected for the pre-design of the University of Minnesota’s new Community University Health Care Center (CUHCC) Clinic in Minneapolis.The project will build on the feasibility study completed by HGA and Urban Design Perspectives that defined the need, scope, and conditions for CUHCC to effectively serve their community in the coming decades. CUHCC is the largest urban interprofessional primary care training site in Minnesota, providing comprehensive primary care to over 11,500 patients who experience socioeconomic, cultural, linguistic, and other barriers to healthcare. The combined team created a future program addressing CUHCC’s complex activity, global population, and other established program drivers, including space demands and evolving service delivery modes such as telehealth, mobile health, and remote work. To enhance the patient and staff experience, the program recommendations include prayer rooms, lactation rooms, respite spaces, private consulting areas, and exam rooms sized to accommodate multiple family members. The new clinic’s design will further CUHCC’s goal to provide a patient experience focused on health equity outcomes. Learn more about CUHCC here.