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Since its inception in 1982, the practice of Moule & Polyzoides, Architects and Urbanists has been focused on creating beautiful and enduring buildings, neighborhoods and districts, and through them, reinvigorating urban centers, enhancing a vibrant civic life and providing sustainable commercial development for our clients. Our exceptional buildings, magnificent land scapes and well-scaled public spaces nuture the public realm, community, the environment, and economic vitality.

Porto Temenos, view of marina from hotel, Island of Anguilla, British West Indies

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Over the past few decades, the nature of the hospitality industry has seen a significant shift in customer preferences. Efficient service and comfort have been supplemented by a prioritization of the quality of the place within and around which hospitality occurs. As a result, numerous beloved historic buildings and locations have now come to the forefront as precedents for rethinking hospitality architecture and planning. Our hospitality practice is rooted in the idea of designing great, enduring places, inspired by the finest examples from our past. Our four-decade-long experience spans the design of complete hospitality environments, from the master planning of entire resort villages, to the archi-tecture of boutique urban hotels. In each of our projects, we carefully balance our client’s business and economic objectives, with the specific jurisdictional realities and processes towards the creation of memorable projects. Our team coordinates the entire design process, guiding clients through the initial feasi-bility and programming of the project, its design maturation, technical aspects, construction, occupancy, and operations. Our goal is to create hospitality envi-ronments at all scales that are innovative in design, environmentally respon-sive in their conception and detail, and bring enhanced economic value for our clients, as well as cultural value and memorable experiences to its users.

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Transitioning between the scale of Westwood Village and Wilshire Blvd, Plaza la Reina terminates Lindbrook Avenue and becomes a picturesque base to the Center West tower.

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Hotel Plaza La Reina WestWood, California

Located in historic Westwood Village, Plaza la Reina consists of a 44-room residential hotel above retail and organized around a public courtyard. The building masses step in height in order to serve as a tran-sition between a 23-story office tower to the west and a historic two-story court to the east. The east alley is transformed into a beautifully landscaped lane and the parking entrance has been located there to minimize the impact on pedestrians and to keep the frontage on Lindbrook Drive unin-terrupted. Live-work units front the new lane, complementing existing entry stoops that face directly opposite. The building is articulated in massing and scale to read as two structures, creating a stylistic variety that harmonizes with the rhythm of Westwood Village’s traditional architecture and urbanism.

View to southeast from Lindbrook Drive

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View to southwest from Lindbrook Drive

Scalinata Balconies overlooking patio

View from La Peer Drive at night

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La Peer Hotel & Private Residences West HollyWood, California

Moule & Polyzoides was Design Architect for the La Peer Hotel, which is situated just north of Melrose Avenue on La Peer Drive in the heart of West Hollywood. The project comprises a 63,000-square-foot mixed-use project with a program that includes a 56-room hotel, penthouse residences, high-end retail and a world-class restaurant. Each of two large courtyards is anchored by commanding outdoor fireplac-es, one of which surrounds an inviting lap pool. Nestled in the center of the building and flanking the bar, the courtyards create a place for visitors and residents to mingle in true Los Angeles poolside style. The hotel plan creates an abundance of private terraces and balconies that afford exceptional views of the Hollywood surroundings.

Perspective view

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Outdoor dining patio

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Los Poblanos Inn & Organic Farm albuquerque, neW MexiCo

A transformation of Los Poblanos into a country inn, conference center and sustainable farm solved the complex preservation and development pressures that faced the historic structures. Designed by noted New Mexico architect John Gaw Meem in the 1930s, they are located on a 25-acre parcel in the middle of Los Poblanos Ranch. Now a subdivided 2,500-acre farm adjacent to the Rio Grande, the property was originally part of the 18th-century Armijo Land Grant. A three-part solution was proposed in response to the complex preservation and development pres-sures that faced the estate. The first preserves two-thirds of the estate as a permanent agricultural trust. The second limits residential entitlement to a small area and configures its 20 guest rooms/casitas in a southwestern compound form. The third transforms the original Meem buildings into the core of an expanded country inn and meeting center. Environmental measures include maintaining the acequia network, conserving all historic buildings, employing green specifications, and enhancing sustainable agriculture and agritourism on the property. Los Poblanos Organics supplies all produce to the Inn as well as to outlets throughout Albuquerque, continuing the estate’s farming traditions.

Lavender fields with farm buildings

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Restored exterior view of original John Gaw Meem-designed structure

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Commodore Perry Hotel & Condominiums austin, texas

The Commodore Perry house, designed by renowned Texas architect Henry Bowers Thompson and completed in 1928, is an historic 10-acre property located in the center of Austin close to the University of Texas. Our project divides the site in two parts. The eastern part is developed as an Auberge-branded 53-room boutique hotel that includes the Perry Mansion and its elaborate gardens. The east side, which includes a part of Waller Creek and a magnificent creek side landscape, is developed as a housing project in a variety of types: a compound, courtyard housing and individual houses. The site is extensively land-scaped around new and existing buildings, including a new pool. The architecture of the hotel is inspired by the Tuscan classicism of the Perry House, and the hous-ing by the vernacular house forms of Central Texas. The building is designed to be as durable and sus-tainable as possible, and is constructed out of robust materials and the highest quality of detailing. Expected completion is 2020.

Illustrative plan

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Hill Colorado Hotels Pasadena, California

Located on two adjacent parcels vacant since 2007, two new hotels will bring 550 badly needed new rooms to the City of Pasadena. In contrast to mainstream development that is often realized as a relent-less extrusion of a building’s footprint, this project is designed as a complex assemblage of varied masses, each carefully located to respond to context. Diverse massing along the street fronts range from two to five stories, with the tallest seven-story massing tucked away from street edges in the middle. Sidewalk pedestrians will never encounter a large, blank building wall. The larger, full-service hotel features 400 hotel rooms, a roof-top bar and pool, and 35,000 square feet of ground floor retail and commercial. The smaller hotel comprises 150 hotel rooms with 10,000 square feet of commercial on the ground floor. Two levels of subterranean parking will accommodate 850 parking spaces. Every element of this project responds to nearby Pasadena City College and to the low-rise form of neighboring buildings to the north, ensuring a district-compatible infill design. Expected completion is 2023.

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Porto Temenos Resort island of anguilla, britisH West indies

Designed as an old world, mixed-use seaside Village, the resort community of Porto Temenos serves as a retail, commercial and recreation center for the Caribbean island of Anguilla. Inspired by outdoor-oriented Greek hill towns such as Mykonos and Hydra, Porto Temenos consists of a network of open spaces, streets, plazas and courtyards that are connected by narrow, winding streets and golf cart-acces-sible passages. With views of the sea and surrounding islands, the 27-acre plan includes approximately 70,000 square feet of highly visible retail space, 600 residential units and a 60-room hotel that incor-porates an equal number of condominium units. Parking is located in underground structures that are directly accessible by each complex of buildings. Residences are situated close to retail, cafes, boating and many other services in a compact, walkable and convenient layout.

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Traditional restaurant

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Marina Hotel, Abu Dhabi abu dHabi, united arab eMirates

Situated along a marina in Abu Dhabi, this 400-room luxury hotel is composed of a variety of suites and penthouses, along with high-end retail, conference facilities, world-class restaurants, a luxury spa and a yacht club. The hotel is centered on a lobby and two wings with a promenade along the entire marina edge that is lined with upscale restaurants and outdoor eating places. The yacht club terminates the western wing, which accommodates more than 100,000 square feet of retail designed in the form of a traditional Arab souk, complete with a labyrinth of streets and courts. The eastern wing contains a num-ber of conference rooms, the spa and a ballroom. A three-story parking structure serves as the base for rooms and terraces above, most with exceptional views of the marina.

Traditional street

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View towards waterfront

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Duplexes along almond allée

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Le Chaland le CHaland, rePubliC of Mauritius

Le Chaland is a 95-acre resort village located on a spectacular beachfront in southeast Mauritius. Immediately adjacent to the beach are two luxury hotels and a beach club fronting a promenade that extends across an existing almond allée to a public plaza. As the center of the village, the plaza is lined with three-story mixed-use buildings and a third hotel. The village consists of an intricate network of var-ied blocks and streets interspersed with a variety of public greens. Housing types range from fee-simple townhouses and cottages to multi-family courtyards and com-pounds, with large estate homes at the edges. All structures are carefully designed in response to local climate and social customs: houses feature single-room deep bodies to ensure ample cross-ventilation while privacy walls are integrated into all dwellings, lots and street form.

Marina flats along north green

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Plaza with flex blocks

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Hotel at night

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Beverly Hills Plaza & Montage Hotel beverly Hills, California

The town center of Beverly Hills, the most beautifully designed traditional town in Southern California, was transformed and reinvigorated in the late 1990s by a $20 million streetscape enhancement project designed by Moule & Polyzoides. The Beverly Hills Plaza & Hotel further enhances the City by introduc-ing a new urban park with a 220-bed luxury hotel, a mixed-use office and retail building, and 1,000 sub-terranean parking stalls. Rich Art Deco details are incorporated in a three-story building, a generously sized pedestrian arcade and an iconic tower. The design serves as a link between the key walking streets of Cañon Drive and Beverly Drive. The Plaza’s landmark tower, elegant details and central location make it the symbolic heart of Beverly Hills. Surrounded by new offices, retail and restaurants, it will accommodate public events as well as informal use by residents and visitors.

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Illustrative plan

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Coral Bay Resort CoCuye, rePubliC of PanaMa

Envisioned as a world class tropical resort and an exemplar of sustainable urbanism, Coral Bay Resort is located on a spectacular coral-laden natural sea cove near the islands of San Blas in northern Panama. Separated from the rest of the country by a vast natural rainforest preserve, it is designed as a series of distinct precincts, each organized around a unique natural or man-made place. The town center and plaza are located on the upper marina, a luxury hotel and large residences front the magnificent Caribbean beach, a residential neighborhood is on the lower marina, a small cluster of houses is on the edge of the rain forest, and a grand promenade runs along the marina edge. All areas are connected by a network of pedestrian-friendly streets, making Coral Bay Resort the first genuine compact, mixed-use, walkable town to be built in Central America in generations. In collaboration with George Moreno & Partners

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Sailing into the new harbor of Coral Bay

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Elizabeth Moule

Vinayak Bharne Principal and Director of Design Vinayak Bharne is a leading thinker and prac-titioner in urbanism and architecture and brings significant domestic and inter-national experience in new town and neighborhood design, transit-oriented and mixed-use development, multi-family housing and campus architecture and plan-ning. His work has been recognized with numerous awards including the 2013 National Award for Smart Growth Achievement Overall Excellence by the United States Environmental Protection Agency, five national Charter Awards from the Congress for the New Urbanism, and the Excellence in Planning Implementation Award from the American Planning Association, California Chapter. He is pub-lished widely and holds a joint teaching appointment at the University of Southern California in the schools of public policy and architecture.

Ms. Moule’s career includes architecture, urbanism, teaching and writing. She is a cofounder of the Congress for the New Urbanism and an emeritus member of its Board of Directors. A national leader in environmental sustainability, she has designed one of the greenest buildings in the world, the Robert Redford Building for the Natural Resources Defense Council in Santa Monica, California. She recently coauthored the CNU’s Canons of Sustainable Architecture and Urbanism, companion to the Charter of the New Urbanism. Ms. Moule’s experience ranges from the design of educational, institutional, commercial and civic buildings to historic rehabilitation, housing, campus planning and large urban design projects at all scales. Her work has been published widely and she has contributed articles to many books and periodicals. She is a founding partner of Moule & Polyzoides and, with her partner, received the Seaside Prize in 1998 and the Arthur Ross Award in 2015.

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Stefanos Polyzoides

Chris Allaire Principal Chris Allaire serves as a senior architect, often working with institutional, higher education and private clients. He is currently leading the design for a new residence hall at Scripps College and recently completed the LEED-Gold Academic and Administration Building for New College of Florida, a 34,000-square-foot, $8.48 million project that is the first structure to be realized from the 2006 New College Master Plan, prepared by Moule & Polyzoides. One of a series of buildings that form the College’s main quad, it includes offices, classrooms and support space. Mr. Allaire’s work has also included serving as senior project architect for two urban courtyard housing projects, both of which carry forward the firm’s deep commitment to this building type. Mr. Allaire brings a deep commitment to sus-tainable design, and is a LEED Accredited Professional.

Stefanos Polyzoides’s professional experience includes the design of educational, institutional, commercial and civic buildings, historic rehabilitation, housing, campus planning, and urban design. From 1973 until 1997, he was Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Southern California and from 1983 through 1990 he was on the Advisory Board for the School of Architecture at Princeton University. He is a cofounder of the Congress for the New Urbanism and, with his partner, Elizabeth Moule, he founded Moule & Polyzoides in 1982. Mr. Polyzoides has led projects throughout the world, including in Massachusetts, Florida, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, New Jersey, Guatemala, Mexico, Dubai, and Saudi Arabia. A founding partner of Moule & Polyzoides, Mr. Polyzoides, with his partner, received the Seaside Prize in 1998 and the Arthur Ross Award in 2015.

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Honors & Awards

Charter Award Hotel Plaza la Reina

Congress for the New Urbanism, May 2017

Charter Award Playhouse Plaza

Congress for the New Urbanism, May 2016

Commerce & Community Award Playhouse Plaza

Playhouse District Association Culture, June 2015

Arthur Ross Award Institute of Classical Architecture & Art,

February 2015

Best Redevelopment Project Lancaster Boulevard Transformation

San Fernando Valley Business Journal Commercial Real Estate Awards, March 2014

Trustees Emeritus Award Los Poblanos Inn & Organic Farm

National Trust for Historic Preservation, November 2013

IDA Pinnacle Award Lancaster Boulevard Streetscape

International Downtown Association, October 2013

Paul Crawford Award CNU California Chapter, September 2013

Driehaus Form-Based Code Award Community Memorial Hospital District

Master Plan Noteworthy Accomplishment Form-Based Codes Institute, May 2013

Bon Appetit Top 10 Food Lover’s Hotels Los Poblanos Inn & Organic Farm, May 2013

Compass Blueprint Recognition Award Lancaster Boulevard Streetscape

Southern Cailfornia Association of Governments, March 2013

EPA National Award Lancaster Boulevard Streetscape

Overall Excellence in Smart Growth United States Environmental Protection Agency, December 2012

L.A. Business Council Leadership Award Stefanos Polyzoides

Los Angeles Business Council, June 2012

Driehaus Form-Based Code Award City of Santa Ana Transit Zoning Code

Form-Based Codes Institute, April 2012

Fodor’s Top 100 Hotels in the World Los Poblanos Inn & Organic Farm, November

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Outstanding Focus Issue Award Santa Ana Renaissance Specific Plan Transit

Zoning Code American Planning Association, April 2011

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Honors & aWards

Award of Merit City of Lancaster Downtown Specific Plan

Planning Excellence in Implementation, Small Jurisdiction American Planning Association, April 2011

The HeArt Project Honor for Contributions to the Creative Community,

June 2010

Award of Excellence Sallie Tiernan Field House

City of Claremont Architectural Commission, May 2009

Design Excellence Award Patio Home, Camden Drive

City of Beverly Hills, May 2009

Comprehensive Plan, Small Jurisdiction Award Uptown Whittier Specific Plan

American Planning Association, April 2009

Charter Award River North District Master Plan

Congress for the New Urbanism, March 2009

Golden Nugget Award Fair Oaks Court The Building Magazine, June 2009

Outstanding Architect Award Los Angeles Business Journal, February 2009

Commercial Real Estate Award for Outstanding Architect Los Angeles Business Journal, February 2009

Merit Award for Excellence in Planning for an Established Campus Occidental College Master Plan

The Society for College and University Planning & American Institute of Architects, July 2007

Real Estate Award for Adaptive Reuse Vista del Arroyo Bungalows

Los Angeles Business Journal, February 2007

Parkinson Spirit of Urbanism Award Del Mar Station

Awarded to the City of Pasadena by the USC School of Architecture, June 2006

Award for Excellence, Finalist Mission Meridian Village

Urban Land Institute, December 2006

Golden Nugget Award Mission Meridian Village, July 2006

Tranny Award Mission Meridian Village

California Transportation Foundation, June 2006

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Charter Award Mercado Neighborhood

Congress for the New Urbanism, March 2006

Charter Award Mission Meridian Village

Congress for the New Urbanism, March 2006

The Best Use of Technology to Plan for Natural Disaster Recovery A Reconstruction Plan for Biloxi, Mississippi

American Planning Association, February 2006

Arthur Ross Awards A Reconstruction Plan for Biloxi, Mississippi

Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America, January 2006

Westside Prize The Robert Redford Building for NRDC,

Santa Monica, California Westside Urban Forum, August 2005

Merit Award Harper Court, Seven Fountains, West

Hollywood, California Residential Architect, January 2005

Builder’s Choice Award Harper Court, Seven Fountains, West

Hollywood, California Builder Magazine, October 2004

Westside Prize Harper Court, Seven Fountains, West

Hollywood, California Westside Urban Forum, June 2004

Architectural Award The Robert Redford Building for NRDC,

Santa Monica, California Los Angeles Business Council, June 2004

Pillars of Industry Award Harper Court, Seven Fountains, West

Hollywood, California National Association of Home Builders, April 2004

Charter Award The Robert Redford Building for NRDC,

Santa Monica, California Congress for the New Urbanism, May 2004

Charter Award Del Mar Station Transit Village, Pasadena,

California Congress for the New Urbanism, May 2003

Charter Award Doña Ana Plaza Master Plan, Doña Ana, New

Mexico Congress for the New Urbanism, May 2003

Charter Award Harper Court, Seven Fountains, West

Hollywood, California Congress for the New Urbanism, May 2002

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Chapter Award Doña Ana Plaza Plan, Doña Ana, New Mexico

New Mexico American Planning Association, July 2002

Chapter Award Central Avenue Study, Albuquerque, New

Mexico New Mexico American Planning Association, July 2002

First Prize Central Park Market, Pasadena, California

Central Park Market Design Competition, August 2000

First Prize MacArthur/BART Transit Village, Oakland,

California MacArthur/BART Transit Village Design Competition, August 2000

Focused Issue Planning Magnolia/Market Corridor Study, Riverside,

California American Planning Association, May 2000

First Prize Alvarado District Master Plan, Albuquerque,

New Mexico Alvarado District Master Plan Competition, January 1999

First Prize Metlox Block

Manhattan Beach/Metlox Block Competition, December 1998

Outstanding Project Award Colonia de la Paz Residence Hall, University

of Tucson, Arizona American Contractors Association of Tucson, December 1997

The Seaside Prize Lifetime Achievement in Architecture and

Urbanism Seaside Institute, December 1998

United States Presidential Award Civano New Town

United States of America, December 1998

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