Griffith Observatory, 2008 Honors Award for Architecture

Griffith Observatory , Los Angeles h've been renovation and expansion. Pfeiffer Partners Architects’ Griffith Observatory renovation took the famous telescope into new dimensions, restoring its mix of Beaux Arts, Neoclassical, and Art Deco features while more than doubling its size with the addition of new exhibition spaces, a theater, and a cafe. To retain the observatory’s iconic visual presence in the Hollywood Hills, Pfeiffer put new program features under the building’s front lawn or at lower-level spaces. “[The] client held true and fast to doing the right thing—to preserve what has been frozen in time, at the height of Art Deco where craft and detail were at [the] forefront.”