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YAZDANI STUDIO OF CANNON DESIGN
The Yazdani Studio of Cannon Design is a studio within a large, national practice focused on design exploration and excellence in architecture. Established upon the reputation and leadership
of award-winning designer Mehrdad Yazdani, the Yazdani Studio integrates the best attributes of a design studio with the resources and reach of an international practice. From its primary offi ce in Los
Angeles, the Yazdani Studio combines the talents of a diverse team of architects, designers, 3D artists, technical specialists, and other creative thinkers who share a commitment to pushing the boundaries
of design—from refining concepts of sustainability to the application of new technologies and urban initiatives. The Yazdani Studio delivers services in all aspects of architectural design and planning to produce unique environments and products for progressive institutions and individuals throughout the world.

CANNON DESIGN
Founded over 60 years ago, Cannon Design is an international architectural, engineering, and interior design firm recognized for design excellence and technological innovation. For the past 40 years, Cannon Design has been producing award-winning architecture throughout California. The Western Region of Cannon Design which consists of 80 design professionals in Los Angeles and 15 in San Francsico, with a wide range of respected clients on various projects types including, civic, healthcare, and higher education facilities. In addition to our Los Angeles office, Cannon Design employs a staff of over 800 in 15 offices throughout North America and Shanghai, China, serving clients around the globe.

Sanup University, Techno Park Design Competition
City of Guangzhou, Television and Sightseeing Tower

State of Alaska, New State Capital

Tomihiro Museum of Shi-Ga, Japan

San Jose State University, Museum of Art and Design, San Jose, CA

Queensland Gallery and Museum of Art, Brisbane, Australia

The Royal Theater Playhouse, Copenhagen, Denmark

Los Angeles Federal Courthouse

Korean Industrial Design Center, Seoul, Korea

Songdong Civic Center Complex. Seoul, Korea

Police Academy, Seoul, South Korea

San Ramon City Center, San Ramon, CA

Next/LA Award, American Institute of Architects, Los Angeles Chapter,
Price Center Expansion, University of California, San Diego - 2006

Honor Award, American Institute of Architects, San Diego Chapter,
Price Center Expansion, University of California, San Diego, 2005

Award for Outstanding Design, National Association of Industrial and
Office Properties (NAIOP), Hauptman-Woodward Institute 2005

Honor Award, American Institute of Architects, Western New York Chapter
Hauptman-Woodward Institute, 2005

Honor Award, American Institute of Architects, San Diego Chapter
Price Center Expansion, University of California, San Diego, 2005

American Architecture Award, The Chicago Athenaeum
Price Center Expansion, University of California, San Diego, 2005

American Architecture Award, The Chicago Athenaeum
Guangzhou TV and Sightseeing Tower Competition, 2005

Sustainable Design Award, Los Angeles Business Council
Santa Monica Public Safety Facility, 2005

Honor Award, Concrete Masonry Association of California and Nevada
Clark County Detention Center , 2004

Next LA Award, American Institute of Architects, Los Angeles Chapter
Guangzhou, 2004

Merit Award, American Institute of Architects, California Council, Clark County Detention Center, 2004

American Architecture Award, Chicago Athenaeum, Duxton Plain Housing Competition 2004

Citation for Design Excellence, AIA Justice Facility Design, Lloyd D. George Federal Building & US Courthouse, Las Vegas, NV, 2003

Next LA Award, Los Angeles Chapter, AIA, Tomihiro Museum of Shi-Ga, Japan, 2002

Honor Award, Nevada Chapter, AIA, Lloyd D. George Federal Building & US Courthouse, Las Vegas, NV, 2001

Merit Award, California Council, AIA, Lloyd D. George Federal Building & US Courthouse, Las Vegas, NV, 2001

Merit Award, Los Angeles Chapter, AIA, Vermont/Santa Monica Metro Station, Los Angeles, CA, 2001

Honor Award, California Council, AIA, Vermont/Santa Monica Metro Station, Los Angeles, CA, 2001

Honor Award, General Services Administration, Lloyd D. George United States Courthouse, Las Vegas, NV, 2000

American Architecture Award, The Chicago Athenaeum, Vermont/Santa Monica Metro Station, Los Angeles, CA, 2000

Honor Award, California Council of the AIA, El Sereno Pool & Recreation Center, Los Angeles, CA, 2000

Merit Award, U.S. Department of Transportation, Vermont/Santa Monica Metro Station, Los Angeles, CA, 2000

Citation, Los Angeles Chapter AIA, El Sereno Pool & Recreation Center, Los Angeles, CA, 1999

Urban Beautification Award, Los Angeles Business Council, Sinai Temple Akiba Academy Expansion, Los Angeles, CA,1999

Urban Beautification Award, Los Angeles Business Council, El Sereno Pool & Recreation Center, Los Angeles, CA, 1999

Honor Award, Nevada Chapter of the AIA,Clark County Detention Center, Los Angeles, CA, 1998

Honor Award, California Chapter of the AIA, DWP Fleet Services Building/Covered Truck Parking, Los Angeles, CA, 1998

Merit Award, Los Angeles Council AIA,DWP Fleet Services Building/Covered Truck Parking, Los Angeles, CA, 1997

Merit Award, AIA Los Angeles, Department of Water & Power, Fleet Services Building/Covered Truck Parking, Los Angeles, CA, 1997

Honor Award, California Council AIA, CineMania Showscan Theatre, Universal CityWalk, 1994

Honor Award, California Council AIA, CineMania Showscan Theatre, Universal CityWalk, Universal City, CA, 1994

AIA Los Angeles, Van Nuys Distribution Headquarters, Merit Award, 1993

Merit Award, Los Angeles Chapter AIA, DWP Van Nuys Distribution Headquarters, Van Nuys, CA, 1993

Honor Award, Los Angeles Chapter AIA, DWP Central Distribution Headquarters, Los Angeles, CA, 1992

Award for Design Excellence, Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Commission, DWP Fleet Service Building, Los Angeles, CA 1992

Honor Award, Concrete Masonry Association of California and Nevada, DWP Central Distribution Headquarters, Los Angeles, CA 1992

Merit Award, Concrete Masonry Association of California , and Nevada, DWP Van Nuys Distribution Headquarters, Van Nuys, CA, 1992

Design Award, Progressive Architecture Magazine, Metro Red Line Vermont/Santa Monica Station, Los Angeles, CA, 1992

Merit Award, Progressive Architecture, Metro Red Line Vermont/Santa Monica Station, Los Angeles, CA, 1992

Merit Award, Concrete Masonry Association of California & Nevada, Van Nuys Distribution Headquarters, Van Nuys, CA, 1992

Honor Award, AIA Los Angeles, Department of Water & Power, Central Distribution Headquarters, Los Angeles, CA, 1992

Merit Award, Concrete Masonry Association of California & Nevada, Department of Water & Power, Central Distribution Headquarters, Los Angeles, CA, 1992

Award for Design Excellence, Cultural Affairs Commission, Department of Water & Power, Fleet Services Building/Covered Truck Parking, Los Angeles, CA, 1992

Award for Design Excellence, Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Commission, Van Nuys Distribution Headquarters, Van Nuys, CA, 1989

Award for Design Excellence, Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Commission, Department of Water & Power, Central Distribution Headquarters, Los Angeles, CA, 1989

Award for Design Excellence, Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Commission, DWP Van Nuys Distribution Headquarters, Van Nuys, CA, 1989

Award for Design Excellence, Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Commission, DWP Central Distribution Headquarters, Los Angeles, CA, 1989

Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute, Buffalo, NY - 2005

University of California, Los Angeles, Acosta Athletic Facility, Los Angeles, CA - 2005

University of California, Santa Barbara, Intercollegiate Athletics Building, Santa Barbara, CA - 2005

City of Santa Monica, Public Safety Building, Santa Monica, CA - 2003

City of Beverly Hills, Department of Public Works and Water Treatment Plant, Beverly Hills, CA - 2003

Glendale Police Facility  - 2003

University of California, Berkeley, Student Services Building and Dining Facility, Berkeley, CA – 2003

Texas Christian University, Student Recreation Center, Fort Worth, TX - 2003

University of Southern California, Parkside International Residential College, Los Angeles, CA - 2002

Lloyd D. George United States Courthouse, Las Vegas, NV  - 2000

Chapman University, Arnold and Mabel Beckman Business & Technology Hall, Orange, CA - 1999

El Sereno Recreation Center and Pool - 1999

Sinai Temple Akiba Academy Expansion - 1999

The Buffalo News,  “What Makes a Building Beautiful, , May 7, 2006

The Architects Newspaper ,  “Campus Life” (Hauptman-Woodward Research Institute),  September 21, 2005

The Buffalo News, “Building’s Design and Purpose Embody Hope for City’s Revival,”, May 12, 2005

LA Architect  “Designing for Secure Buildings,”, June 2004

The Buffalo News, "Building on Talent," Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute, May 4, 2003

The Washington Post, "Designers' Attitudes, Work Thrive as Federal Priorities for Buildings Evolve," Lloyd D. George U.S. Courthouse, May 3, 2003

LA Architect, "Drawing The Line: The Sketchbooks of Mehrdad Yazdani," Nov./Dec. 2002

Design Solutions, "Quality Woodwork Does Justice to U.S. Courthouse," Winter 2003

The New York Times, “A Fancy New Spot in Vegas,” Summer 2001

Contract, “Judging Vegas,” August 2001

Architecture, “The GSA on Trial,” January 2001

LAArchitect, “Profile: Mehrdad Yazdani,” Sept/Oct 2000

Metrorail, They Have Landed…The Power List

Architecture, “News: Federal Building and United States Courthouse, Las Vegas, Nevada,” April 2000

World Architecture, Metro Red Line Vermont/Santa Monica Station, April 2000

Interior Design, “Red Lining” Metro Red Line Vermont/Santa Monica Station, April 2000

Las Vegas Sun, Metro Section, “Welcome Sight,” Federal Building and United States Courthouse, Las Vegas, Nevada, May 8, 2000

Contract, “Down Under... in L.A.?” Metro Red Line Vermont/Santa Monica Station , March 2000

Architectural Record, “The Nation’s Biggest landlord Just Found Style,” Federal Building and United States Courthouse, Las Vegas, Nevada, February 2000

Travel & Leisure, “Rolling Out the Red Line,” November 1999

Architecture Magazine, “Portfolio,” September 1999

“In Los Angeles, Set-Dressing the Subway, The New York Times, Art/Architecture Section, Santa Monica/Vermont Metro Rail Station, December 20, 1998

Santa Monica/Vermont Metro Rail Station, The Los Angeles Times, Valley Edition, October 18, 1998

“Flashy Art, Flashy Town”, The Los Angeles Times, Santa Monica/Vermont Metro Rail Station, July 8, 1998

“New Blood 101 Exhibition”, The New York Times, April 2, 1998

“New Blood 101, Onehundredone an exhibition for the New Millennium”, Interior Expression, March/April 1998

“Showscan Cinemania” (Cover), AW Architektur & Wettbewerbe, Germany, March 1998

“Songdong Civic Center Complex”, Architecture, October 1997
“Projects On the Boards”, Architecture, July 1997

“Los Angeles Department of Water & Power, Fleet Services Building and Showscan CineMania Theater ”, A + U, June, 1997

Composite Drawings, McGraw Hill Publishers, March 1997

"Computers, Holdouts to Converts - Federal, Building and United States Courthouse, Las Vegas", Architecture, February, 1997

“Power Complex-Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Fleet Service Building” and “Importing New Design Talent”, Architecture, July, 1996

“Alumni and Visitors Center”, Fiat Lux - University of California, Riverside, May, 1996

“New Civic Buildings-Federal Building and United States Courthouse, Las Vegas”, Architecture, April, 1996

“Federal Architecture: A New Era-Federal Building and United States Courthouse, Las Vegas”, Architecture, January, 1996

“Power Complex-Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Fleet Service Building” and “Importing New Design Talent”, Architecture, July, 1996

"CineMania Theatre”, Light Construction, MOMA, New York, 1995

“CineMania Theatre”, International Architecture Yearbook, Images Australia Pty Ltd, 1995

“The Power of Architecture”, Architectural Design, March, 1995

A Guide to Recent Architecture Los Angeles, Philip-Puhverman, Hrtemi’s, London, Zurich, Munich, 1995

“Filtration Plant”, Architectural Design, February, 1995

“New Visions for Old Age-Continuing Care Community”, Architecture, October, 1994

“Virtually Thrilling”, Architectural Record, August, 1994

“Vermont/Santa Monica Metro Red Line Station”, World Cities Los Angeles June, 1994

“Vermont/Santa Monica Metro Red Line Station”, Architectural Design, June, 1994

“LA Architects: They Did It Their Way”, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, May, 1994

“What Are the Young Architects Doing?”, ABITARE, May, 1994

“LA AIA Awards”, l’ARCA, May, 1994

“New City Hall in West Hollywood”, LA Architect, April, 1994

Architectural Drawings, UCLA Extension Catalog, Spring Session, 1994

“A Disguised Architecture”, l’ARCA, February, 1994

“A Shooting Range in Dubai”, l’ARCA, November, 1993

“Red Wedge”, Architectural Review, September, 1993

“Municipal Design Revolution”, The Los Angeles Times, July, 1993

“The RTD Headquarters in Los Angeles”, l’ARCA, June, 1993

“Vermont/Santa Monica Station”, l’ARCA, May, 1993

“Beyond Utility” and “On the Boards”, Architecture, February, 1993

“Buildings That Say Back Off”, The Los Angeles Times, June 19, 1992

“1992 Projects”, GA Houses, June, 1992

“1992 Awards”, Progressive Architecture, January, 1992

Semiotext(E)/Architecture, “Projects” , January, 1992

Progressive Architecture, January, 1992

“Harvard Architecture”, Kenchiku Bunka, April, 1991

University of California, San Diego, Price Center Expansion, La Jolla, CA

California Pacific Medical Center, a Sutter Health Affiliate, Replacement Hospital, Cathedral Hill Campus, San Francsico, CA

Kaiser Permanente, Orange County Medical Center, Anaheim, CA

General Services Administration, New Toledo Courthouse, Toledo, OH

California State University, Dominguez Hills, Loker Student Union, Expansion, Carson, CA

Contra Costa County Sheriff, Public Safety Command Center, Martinez, CA

American Motorcycle Association, Motorcycle Hall of Fame Museum, Pickerington, OH

A New World Trade Center," Group Exhibition, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY, 2002

"Federal Architect," Lloyd D. George U.S. Courthouse, National Building Museum, Washington, D.C., 2002

"2000 American Architecture Awards," Metro Red Line Vermont / Santa Monica Station and Sinai Temple Akiba Academy Expansion, Chicago Athenaeum, Chicago, IL, Summer 2000

"LA 12," Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA, April 2000

"Mostly Modern Museums," Metro Red Line Vermont / Santa Monica Station, Fine Arts Department, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, January 2000

"101 Young Los Angeles Designer," Yale University School of Art and Architecture Gallery, New Haven, CT, September, 1988

"Permanent Collection," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, March, 1998

"101 New Blood," Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA, March, 1998

"Demorcratic Design: A New Era in Federal Architecture," Chicago Antheaum, Chicago, IL, September, 1997

AIA San Francisco Gallery, San Francisco, CA, July, 1997

"MTA Exhibition," Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA, May, 1997

The Octagon, Washington, DC,“Federal Presence: Buildings for the Millennium,” 1997

"Permanent Collection: Works Acquired in Honor of Philip Johnson's 90th Birthday," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 1996

“Light Construction” Traveling Exhibition, Barcelona, Spain, 1996

“Light Construction” Exhibition, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 1995

"Architecture and the Arts," Art LA91, Los Angeles, CA, November, 1991

"Architecture 2000" Group Exhibition, All-Steel Showroom, Los Angeles, CA, August, 1991

Group Exhibition of Six Los Angeles Artists, Allport Gallery, San Francisco, CA, February, 1990

"Two Recent Projects," USC School of Architecture, Los Angeles, CA, January, 1990

"Works by Recent Alumni," Steelcase Design Partnership Gallery, New York, NY, June, 1989

"Works by Recent Alumni," Gund Hall Gallery, Graduate School of Design, Harvard, Cambridge, MA, March, 1989

"West Coast Gateway Competition," Museum of Science and Industry, Los Angeles, CA, August, 1988