Article source: Cannon Design

Two years after Cannon Design provided feasibility, programming, and cost-estimating services for a proposed health, physical education, and fitness center, Los Angeles Community College District’s Mission College unanimously selected the firm to provide design services for the new $38 million facility, which enables Mission College to consolidate its physical education and athletic programs – previously housed in leased buildings dispersed off campus – into a unified location that can accommodate new athletic and educational programs.

Interior View (Image Courtesy Feinknopf)

• Architects: Cannon Design
• Project: Los Angeles Mission College, Health, PE and Fitness Center
• Location: Sylmar, CA
• Size: 87,000 sq ft
• Project Cost: $38 Million
• Engineers (MEP): Integrated Engineering Consulting Engineers, Los Angeles CA
• Photography: Feinknopf Photography
• Software used: Revit as a visualization tool during schematic design to do layouts and quick views for the owner…it allowed them to make decisions on the spot. We were new to Revit at the time [2006] and we converted the sheets to AutoCAD to develop the actual contract documents.

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