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Photo: Jaime Kowal Largely self-taught in the field of design, Chris Pardo spent eight years living/studying across the West Coast before returning to Seattle to attend the University of Washington’s Masters of Architecture program. While a student, he cofounded Pb Elemental Architecture along with former partner Dave Biddle. The firm grew quickly focusing not only on design, but also construction, development and real estate. In less than five years the duo had successfully designed over 500 projects. Now Chris Pardo Design: Elemental Architecture has offices in Seattle and Palm Springs. In 2007 Chris was honored with an AIA commendation award for the design of the Sterling Residence, received the 2008 Design achievement award from Seattle Homes & Lifestyles Magazine, in 2009 was named to the “20 under 40 top architects” as well as honored as one of the “Top 25 innovators” by Seattle Business Magazine. Recently he was named in the “Worldwide Architecture: The Next Generation” as one of the top architects under 40 in the World, and was named as “Decades Best” by Seattle Magazine. In 2011, Pardo was honored as one of Seattle’s “Most Influential People” by Seattle Magazine. He has been featured in many national/international blogs, magazines, books, and newspapers. Chris is also the co-founder and designer of several successful establishments in Seattle & Palm Springs. Recent projects in Coachella Valley include The Arrive Hotel, Coachella Music Festival restroom buildings, Il Corso Restaurant in Palm Desert, Hacienda Cantina & Beach Club, and Ernest Coffee. Kate Buckley: Chris, you are a renowned designer who got his start in Seattle. What brought you to Palm Springs? Chris Pardo: Originally I was looking for a vacation home to get out of the cold winters in Seattle. After visiting for the first time three years ago, I feel in love and started looking closer at doing business here. Before you know it I was here fulltime (maintaining my practice in Seattle and opening one in Palm Springs). Photo: Cal Dahlstrom KB: You work on projects all over the United States. Are there specific challenges to designing for Palm Springs that don’t exist elsewhere? CP: There are challenges and opportunities. Compared to the Northwest and Northeast, Palm Springs’ sun exposure guides design. Solar positioning, cross ventilation and screening is essential. These elements become design attributes of the building and help define the architectural language. Indoor/outdoor spaces become paramount to the design and lifestyle. KB: Tell me about some of your current Palm Springs-based projects—I understand there are quite a few! CP: We are designing some very exciting projects in Palm Springs. First and foremost is the Arrive Hotel on Palm Canyon and Vista Chino; construction starts at the end of the month with plans to open just before Coachella Music Festival. The design has midcentury nods while offering a modern material application and aesthetic. The main structures are clad in rusted corten steel and wood grain ceramic tile. The main restaurant, Reservoir, resembles aspects of the Alexander Butterfly homes in the Raquet Club. Two retail spaces flank the restaurant and the other buildings surround a large pool area with cabanas, firepits and a bocce ball court. Some other exciting projects we have worked on over the last year are Il Corso Italian restaurant in Palm Desert, the recently opened Hacienda Cantina & Beach Club here in Palm Springs (8000 sqft restaurant and 30,000 sqft pool area), Ernest Coffee Co & Bootleggers Tiki (opening next week) in the Uptown District, Lugo Lofts in the Tennis Club area ( 11 loft style modern homes), Sandfish Sushi/Whiskey bar on North Palm Canyon, and the Orchards housing development in La Quinta. KB: And didn’t you also recently do something with the Coachella Festival? CP: Yes! We completed two restroom buildings on the grounds just before Coachella this year. The structures hold all most 200 bathroom stalls, providing a much better experience for festival attendees. The buildings carry a similar aesthetic to most of my work, with concrete block, Stucco and a thin steel roof line. More permanent structures are planned. KB: What would you say is your design philosophy, and how does this methodology figure into your work? CP: I start fresh on each project, the site and program informs where my mind goes. Typically I like to use three materials on exterior design and carry then into the living spaces. On restaurants and hotels it is a unique opportunity to create a backdrop, almost like a set of a play for activity/life. It’s quite fun having the ability to work in both residential and hospitality interiors as they scale very differently. KB: Chris, I’ve noticed that an obvious aesthetic quality runs through all the work that you do, though the end results may be different. How would you describe your personal aesthetic? CP: Simply modern. My work is based on the natural environment in which the buildings are placed, while accentuating the way we inhabit space today. I love true materials: wood, concrete, stucco, glass all revealed in the correct lighting. KB: I think it’s safe to call you multi-talented: architecture, design, construction, development, and real estate. Do you have a favorite? What’s the common denominator in all you do? CP: I just love to create, it excites me and is my life. No matter what I am physically doing, I am thinking about how I can improve the look or flow of things. KB: And what’s next for you? Any projects we should look for on the horizon? CP: We are just starting some very exciting new hotel and residential developments here and across the country. We have a seven-story loft building in Seattle about to start construction, A beautiful home just finishing in San Gabriel near LA, a gorgeous home on the water in East Hampton, NY, a very modern home in Austin, TX, and an exciting project called the Lisbon Lofts in Oklahoma City. I am also quite passionate about the renovation we are currently designing for the Wexler Steel home #4. The owners have been a dream to work with and the end results are stunning. As a designer, working on a Donald Wexler historic building is a once in a lifetime experience. KB: What would you be doing if you weren’t designing? CP: I think I would be writing. I have a passion for movies/screenplays and have dabbled a bit. I would love to write more and maybe create a book on development and the importance/value of great design. KB: Where do you see Palm Springs in the next 5-10 years? CP: I cannot hide my excitement for the future of Palm Springs. The next 5-10 years will usher in a refinement of what has been building over the last ten years. The community has embraced this town, and has created a place unique to itself. In the very near future, Palm Springs will become a full international tourist destination and will have cultivated a reengergized population of designers, artists and entrepreneurs. Amazing! KB: What do you love most about Palm Springs? CP: I love the people. I have a tattoo on my arm of every place I have lived so far in my life—13 places. Of all the places, Palm Springs has been the most welcoming—with the most interesting and talented people I have ever met. People’s understanding and appreciation for art and culture is astonishing. I look forward to many more years here. Let’s just say I don’t expect a 14th tattoo anytime soon!
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Grianghraf: Jaime Kowal Den chuid is mó féin-mhúinte i réimse an dearadh, chaith Chris Pardo ocht mbliana ina gcónaí / staidéar ar fud an Chósta an Iarthair sular fhill sé go Seattle chun freastal ar an Ollscoil Máistrí Washington ar an gclár Ailtireacht. Cé mac léinn, cofounded sé Pb eiliminteach Ailtireacht chomh maith le iar-chomhpháirtí Dave Biddle. An comhlacht fhás go tapa ag díriú ní hamháin ar dhearadh, ach freisin tógáil, forbairt agus eastát réadach. I níos lú ná cúig bliana a bhí an bheirt a ceapadh go rathúil níos mó ná 500 tionscadal. Anois Chris Pardo Dearadh: eiliminteach Ailtireacht Tá oifigí i Seattle agus Palm Springs. Sa bhliain 2007 Ba mhór an onóir Chris le dámhachtain moladh AIA do dhearadh an Cónaithe Steirling, fuair an gradam a bhaint amach Dearadh 2008 ó Tithe Seattle & Stíleanna Maireachtála Magazine, i 2009 ainmníodh ar an "20 faoi 40 ailtirí barr" chomh maith le onóir mar cheann an "Barr 25 nuálaithe" ag Seattle Magazine Gnó. Le déanaí ainmníodh é sa "Worldwide Ailtireacht: An Chéad Ghlúin Eile" mar cheann de na hailtirí is fearr faoi 40 sa Domhan, agus ainmníodh mar "Deichniúra is Fearr" ag Seattle Magazine. Sa bhliain 2011, ba mhór an onóir Pardo mar cheann de Seattle "an chuid is mó tionchair Daoine" ag Seattle Magazine. Tá sé ag feiceáil i go leor blaganna náisiúnta / idirnáisiúnta, irisí, leabhair, nuachtáin agus. Chris é freisin an comh-bhunaitheoir agus dearthóir ar roinnt bunaíochtaí rathúla i Seattle agus Palm Springs. I measc na dtionscadal a rinneadh le déanaí i Coachella Valley Óstán Teacht, foirgnimh restroom Féile Cheoil Coachella, Il Corso Bialann i Palm Desert, Hacienda Cantina & Beach Club, agus Ernest Caife. Kate Buckley: Chris, an bhfuil tú dearthóir clúiteach a fuair a thosú i Seattle. Cad a thug tú le Palm Springs? Chris Pardo: Ar dtús bhí mé ag lorg teach saoire a fháil amach as an Winters fuar i Seattle. Tar éis tabhairt cuairte don chéad uair trí bliana ó shin, is dóigh liom i ngrá agus thosaigh ag breathnú níos dlúithe ag gnó a dhéanamh anseo. Sula a fhios agat é a bhí mé anseo lánaimseartha (chothabháil mo chleachtas i Seattle agus a oscailt amháin i Palm Springs). Grianghraf: Cal DAHLSTROM KB: Tá tú ag obair ar thionscadail ar fud na Stát Aontaithe. An bhfuil dúshláin ar leith a dhearadh do Palm Springs nach bhfuil ann in áiteanna eile? CP: Tá dúshláin agus deiseanna. I gcomparáid leis an Iarthuaiscirt agus Oirthuaisceart, treoracha ghrian ag nochtadh Palm Springs 'a dhearadh. Tá suímh Gréine, tras aerála agus scagadh riachtanach. Bheith ar na heilimintí tréithe dearadh an fhoirgnimh agus cabhrú leis an teanga ailtireachta a shainmhíniú. Bheith spásanna Dhíon / amuigh faoin aer fíorthábhachtach le dearadh agus stíl bheatha. KB: Inis dom faoi roinnt de do thionscadail-shruth I Palm Springs-bhunaithe a thuiscint go bhfuil go leor le roinnt! CP: Táimid ag dearadh roinnt tionscadal an-spreagúil i Palm Springs. Gcéad dul síos tá an Teacht Óstán ar Palm Canyon agus Vista Chino; Tosaíonn dtógáil ag deireadh na míosa le pleananna a oscailt díreach roimh Féile Cheoil Coachella. Tá an dearadh meascán d 'ómós midcentury agus a thairiscint ar ábhartha iarratas nua-aimseartha aeistéitiúil. Tá na struchtúir is mó a cumhdaithe i cruach CORTEN rusted agus gráin adhmaid tíleanna ceirmeacha. An bhialann is mó, Taiscumar resembles, gnéithe de na tithe Alexander Féileacán sa Chlub Raquet. Dhá spásanna miondíola taobh an bialann agus timpeall na foirgnimh eile ar limistéar snámha mór le cabanas, firepits agus cúirt liathróid bocce. Tá roinnt tionscadail spreagúil eile táimid ag obair ar fud an mbliain seo caite Il Corso Iodáilis bialann i Palm Desert, an Club osclaíodh le déanaí Hacienda Cantina & Trá anseo i Palm Springs (8000 sqft bialann agus 30,000 limistéar snámha sqft), Co Caife Ernest & Bootleggers tiki (oscailt an tseachtain seo chugainn) i gCeantar Uptown, Lugo Lofts i gceantar Club Leadóige (11 tithe nua-aimseartha stíl lochta), Sandfish Sushi / barra Uisce beatha ar Thuaidh Palm Canyon, agus forbairt tithíochta Úlloird i La Quinta. KB: Ní raibh Agus leat a dhéanamh freisin le déanaí rud éigin leis an Féile Coachella? CP: Is ea! Chríochnaíomar dhá fhoirgneamh restroom ar na forais díreach roimh an Coachella i mbliana. Shealbhú na struchtúir ar fad an chuid is mó ar 200 stallaí seomra folctha, ag soláthar taithí i bhfad níos fearr do lucht freastail na féile. Dhéanamh ar na foirgnimh aeistéitiúla cosúil le an chuid is mó de mo chuid oibre, le bloc coincréite, stucó agus líne dín tanaí cruach. Struchtúir níos buaine beartaithe. KB: Cad ba mhaith leat a rá go bhfuil do fhealsúnacht dearadh, agus conas a dhéanann an figiúr modheolaíocht i do chuid oibre? CP: Tús a chur mé úr ar gach tionscadal, an suíomh agus an clár eolas nuair a théann mo intinn. De ghnáth, is maith liom a úsáid trí ábhair maidir le dearadh taobh amuigh agus a dhéanamh ansin isteach na spásanna maireachtála. Ar bialanna agus óstáin is deis ar leith a chruthú chúlra, beagnach cosúil le sraith de dráma do ghníomhaíocht / saoil. Tá sé go leor spraoi a bhfuil an cumas a bheith ag obair sa dá taobh istigh cónaithe agus fáilteachais mar scála siad an-difriúil. KB: Chris, tá mé faoi deara go ritheann ar chaighdeán soiléir aeistéitiúil tríd an obair ar fad a dhéanann tú, cé gur féidir na torthaí deiridh a bheith difriúil. Conas a chuirfeá síos ar do aeistéitiúla pearsanta? CP: Níl ort ach nua-aimseartha. Is é mo shaothar bunaithe ar an timpeallacht nádúrtha ina bhfuil na foirgnimh a chur, agus accentuating an mbealach inhabit againn spás inniu. Is breá liom ábhair fíor: adhmad, coincréit, stucó, gloine go léir le fios sa soilsiú ceart. KB: Sílim go bhfuil sé sábháilte a ghlaonn tú il-cumasach: ailtireacht, dearadh, tógáil, forbairt, agus eastát réadach. An bhfuil tú is fearr leat? Cad é an comhainmneoir i ngach a dhéanann tú? CP: Is breá liom ach a chruthú, excites sé dom agus tá mo shaol. Is cuma cad tá mé ag déanamh go fisiciúil, tá mé ag smaoineamh faoi conas is féidir liom feabhas a chur ar an cuma nó sreabhadh na rudaí. KB: Agus cad atá i ndán duit? Aon tionscadail ba chóir dúinn a lorg ar na spéire? CP: Táimid ag tosú ach roinnt forbairtí óstáin agus cónaithe an-spreagúil nua anseo agus ar fud na tíre. Tá foirgneamh seacht-scéal lochta i Seattle faoi thógáil a thosú, A bhaile álainn díreach ag críochnú i San Gabriel aice LA, teach taibhseach ar an uisce in Oirthear Hampton, NY, teach an-nua-aimseartha i Austin, TX, agus spreagúil tionscadal ar a dtugtar an Lofts Liospóin i Oklahoma City. Tá mé chomh maith go leor paiseanta mar gheall ar an athchóiriú táimid ag dearadh faoi láthair le haghaidh an bhaile Wexler Cruach # 4. An úinéirí a bheith ina aisling a bheith ag obair leis agus tá na torthaí deireadh stiúdú. Mar dearthóir, tá obair ar fhoirgneamh stairiúil Donald Wexler uair amháin i feadh an tsaoil taithí. KB: Bheadh Cad é atá tú a bheith ag déanamh más rud é nach raibh tú ag a dhearadh? CP: I mo thuairimse, ba mhaith liom a bheith ag scríobh. Tá mé paisean don scannáin / screenplays agus tá dabbled le beagán. Ba mhaith liom grá a scríobh níos mó agus b'fhéidir leabhar ar fhorbairt agus ar an tábhacht a bhaineann le / luach dearadh iontach a chruthú. KB: Cá bhfuil tú a fheiceáil Palm Springs i 5-10 bliana amach romhainn? CP: Ní féidir liom a cheilt mo excitement do thodhchaí na Palm Springs. Beidh an 5-10 bliana amach romhainn usher i refinement an méid atá bainte ag tógáil thar na deich mbliana anuas. Tá an pobal fáilte roimh an bhaile, agus tá chruthaigh áit uathúil chun féin. I go luath amach anseo, beidh Palm Springs bheith ina cheann scríbe turasóireachta iomlán idirnáisiúnta agus beidh saothraithe daonra reengergized de dearthóirí, ealaíontóirí agus fiontraithe. Amazing! KB: Cad a dhéanann tú grá an chuid is mó mar gheall ar Palm Springs? CP: Is breá liom na daoine. Tá mé tattoo ar mo lámh ar gach áit a bhfuil cónaí orm go dtí seo i mo shaol-13 áiteanna. As na háiteanna, tá Palm Springs bhí an chuid is mó fáilte-leis na daoine is suimiúla agus cumasach a casadh orm riamh. Tá tuiscint Daon agus meas ar ealaín agus cultúr astonishing. Táim ag tnúth le blianta go leor eile anseo. Ligean ach a rá nach féidir liom a bheith ag súil le tattoo 14 ag am ar bith go luath!