Inglewood’s Senior Center is two-story, 35,000 square-foot facility serving as a home away from home for seniors 50 years and older in the Inglewood, Hawthorne and Lennox service areas.  The facility includes a dining hall, commercial kitchen, exercise and community rooms, pool tables, transit offices, below-grade parking and significant public art throughout.

Responding to the senior community’s needs and hopes, architects gkkworks and general contractor Pinner Construction worked as one to realize the ambitious, design-build project.  Recognizing the Center’s overall aesthetics, strategies and function, the design-build team won two Western Pacific awards from the Design Build Institute of America.

gkkworks, founded in 1991, is a Pasadena-based architectural firm known for progressive approach to integrated project delivery and customized design solutions. It offers in-house construction services. An award-winning architecture and interior design firm, the practice was founded on the belief that architecture and construction are inseparable, and understanding each is critical to the success of any project. gkkworks merged with Cannon Design in spring 2018.

Pinner Construction began when independent masonry contractor Arthur Thomas Pinner founded the California firm in 1919. In that post-war economic boom, Pinner recognized the growing need for quality workmanship and delivered. Pinner Construction has provided quality services to across Southern California and is significantly committed to building green. The Senior Center was designed and constructed to achieve LEED or CHPS accreditation.  The Pinner partnership was instrumental in realizing the public art on the interior lobby and exterior canopies.

Date: 2018
Collection: Architecture

Location
111 N. Locust Street
Inglewood, California 90301