PartnerAnthony PoonJohn KimEmployees
8 Established
1991 Areas of specialty
Commercial
Residential
Education
Mixed-Use
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Poon Design Inc.
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Top: Chaya Downtown, Los Angeles, CA, 2009
(Photo: Gregg Segal) |
Top: W/V Mixed-Use Project, Manhattan Beach, CA, 2009
(Photo: Gregg Segal) |
Bottom: Greenman Elementary School, Aurora, IL, 2005
(Photo: Mark Ballogg) |
Bottom: Yoga Studio, Santa Monica Power Yoga, CA, 2004
(Photo: Elon Schoenholz) |
 Philosophy
Design enables life to be vibrant. Design enables life to resonate. Be creative. Be original. Be remembered.
Poon Design Inc., a multi-disciplinary practice, offers full professional services in architecture and interiors, planning and programming, furniture/product design, graphics/branding, and many other creative endeavors. Our design services are comprehensive.
At the core of our services, Poon Design Inc. promotes modern living and contemporary design, while acknowledging the legacy of historical traditions. Our designs communicate more than aesthetics. Our designs communicate ideas. Our designs express everything from our culture and the community we live in to the specific needs and solutions for each client. We call this content.
Whether a new business card, website, private residence, restaurant or university building: each and every client has ambitions for their existence and the condition of their institution. Clients possess memories of past successes and lessons learned, as well as ideas for an exciting future. These ideas and stories are the basis for our design process. Poon Design Inc. fills each and every design solution with content specific to each project and ideas and stories relative to each client.
Design at Poon Design Inc., a national member of the United States Green Building Council, is also the balance of imagination and reality. We integrate creativity with the pragmatics of a project: sustainability and environmental stewardship, client’s needs, permits and approvals, function, budget, schedule, future maintenance, and constructability.
Don’t do what you have always done. Do something that is unique, something that is landmark, something that is potent, something that will excite your life. Thoughtful and inventive architecture can enhance your world. Break new ground.
Current projects
EducationFlabob Airport Education Center, Museum and Business Park, San Bernardino, California, 2006 Institute for Collaboration in Education, Aurora University, Aurora, Illinois, 2005 Feather River Academy, Sutter County School District, Yuba City, California, 2005 View Park School, Los Angeles, California, 2005 Vistamar School, El Segundo, California, 2005 East Los Angeles High School No. 2, Los Angeles, California, 2005 Valley Region High School No. 4, Los Angeles, California, 2005 Oakland Unified School District Master Plan, Oakland, California, 2005 Rubidoux High School, Jurupa Unified School District, Riverside, California. 2004 Jurupa K-8 School, Jurupa Unified School District, Riverside, California. 2005 West High School, School District 129, Aurora, Illinois. 2004 Herget Middle School, School District 129, Aurora, Illinois, 2004 Greenman Elementary School, School District 129, Aurora, Illinois. 2004
Commerical/Mixed Use
Memphis Cafe, Manhattan Beach, California, 2009
8 Fish, Los Angeles, Caifornia, 2009
Chaya Downtown, Los Angeles, California, 2009
W-V Mixed-Use Project, Manhattan Beach, 2008
Cake Monkey, Burbank, California, 2007
LGL Law Offices, Los Angeles, California, 2007
SMPY Warehouse, Santa Monica, California. 2007
Joss Cuisine Traditional, Beverly Hills, California. 2006
315 South Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills, California. 2006
La Fornaretta Restaurant, Pasadena, California. 2004
Santa Monica Power Yoga, Santa Monica, California. 2004
Residential
Virginia Retreat, Roanoke, Virginia, 2009
Atla Verde Sustainable Communities, Caliornia 2009
S/B House, Encino, California 2009
Bliss Residence, Bel Air, California, 2008
RNB Mid-Century House, Los Angeles, California 2007
Reginal Johnson Estate, Hope Ranch, California. 2007
Weinhouse / Ziman House, Santa Monica, California. 2007
Villa Sunset, Los Angeles, California. 2007
Buskett Residence, Sherman Oaks, California. 2006
Kest Residence, Topanga, California. 2006
Bergman Residence, Los Angeles, California. 2005
Hollywood Hills Residence, Los Angeles, California. 2004
Competitions
Contraband and Freedman’s Cemetary Memorial, Alexandria, Virginia, 2008 Robbins Elementary School, Trenton Public Schools, Trenton, New Jersey, 2005 Educational Center and Library Addition, Holocaust Human Rights Center, University of Maine, Augusta, 2005 Perth Amboy High School, Perth Amboy, New Jersey. 2004 9/11 Memorial, Manhattan Beach, California, 2005 Martin Luther King Memorial, Washington, D.C., 2002 Key West Aids Memorial, Florida, 1995 Hermosa Beach Pier, California. 1992
Awards
International Design Award for Best Restaurant, The American Institute of Architects, Los Angeles Chapter, Chaya Downtown, Los Angeles, California, 2009 Semi-Finalist, Contraband and Freedman’s Cemetery Memorial, International Dseign Competition, Alexandria, Virginia, 2008 Grand Prize, NSBA National Exhibition of School Architecture, Herget Middle School, Aurora, Illinois, 2007 Citation of Excellence, Learning By Design, Herget Middle School, Aurora, Illinois, 2007 Award of Distinction for Excellence, Joint Annual Conference of IASB, IASA and IASBO, Chicago, Greenman Elementary School, Aurora, Illinois, 2006 Honor Award, DesignShare, School Construction News, Edutopia, And Schools For Life, Feather River Academy, Yuba City, California, 2006 Merit Award, DesignShare, School Construction News, Edutopia, And Schools For Life, Herget Middle School, Aurora, Illinois, 2006 Grand Prize, NSBA National Exhibition of School Architecture, Greenman Elementary School, Aurora, Illinois, 2006 Honorable Mention, Outstanding Architecture and Design In Education, School Planning & Management, Greenman Elementary School, Aurora, Illinois, 2006 Merit Award, The American Institute of Architects, Inland California Chapter, Greenman Elementary School, Aurora, Illinois, 2005 Design Award, The American Institute of Architects, Inland California Chapter, Feather River Academy, Yuba City, California, 2005 2005 Honor Society, KnowledgeWorks Foundation, Greenman Elementary School, Aurora, Illinois, 2005 Merit Award, DesignShare and School Construction News, Greenman Elementary School, Aurora, Illinois, 2005 Impact on Learning Award, School & College Planning & Management, Greenman Elementary School, Aurora, Illinois, 2005 Grand Prize, Learning by Design, National Highest Honor, Greenman Elementary School, Aurora, Illinois, 2005 Design Citation, Architectural Portfolio, American School & University Magazine, Greenman Elementary School, Aurora, Illinois, 2004 Merit Award, The American Institute of Architects, Cabrillo Chapter, Hermosa Beach Pier, Hermosa Beach, California, 1995
Publications
“The Good of Small Things,“ Los Angeles Times, June 6, 2009
“The Review: Chaya Downtown“, Los Angeles Times, May 20, 2009
“L.A.’s Thriving Downtown Restaurant Scene,“ The Week, May 15, 2009
“Developer plants a few new roofs,“ The Beach Reporter, May 22, 2008
“Builder sees future in green roofs,“ Easy Reader, November 29, 2007
“Green Houses, Living on the Cutting Edge.” Luxury Life & Style, March/April 2007
Chill Out for the Summer,” National Education Association Today, May 2006
Special Schools, Birkhauser, 2006
The Dish: Health, The Big Stretch,” Angeleno, July 2005
“2005 Grand Prize Winners, Excellence in School Design,” Learning By Design, Issue 14, 2005
“Architectural Portfolio 2004,” American School & University, Vol. LXXXVII, November 2004
“Greenman School is mixture of light, arts,” The Beacon News, September 1, 2003
“New West school to keep close to rural roots,” The Beacon News, May 20, 2003
“New Greenman will provide state-of-the-art education,” The Beacon News, January 19, 2003
“On the Boards,” Architecture, Vol. LXXXV, No. 5, May 1996
“The Virtue of Simplicity,” Competitions, Volume IV, No. 1, Spring 1994
“New Hermosa Pier Design,” Easy Reader, November 10, 1994
“Architects Show No Fear,” Los Angeles Times, November 1994
“Winners in Hermosa Beach,” Los Angeles Architect, October/November 1993
“Café is Centerpiece,” The Daily Breeze, October 27, 1994
“Better Buildings,” Easy Reader, August 4, 1994
“Helping Hermosa,” The Daily Breeze, November 28, 1993,
“Peerless Pier,” Easy Reader, September 17, 1993
“L.A. Firm Wins Pier Design,” The Beach Reporter, September 16, 1993
“Without Peer in Hermosa,” The Daily Breeze, September 16, 1993
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