Casa Rusca / Awards & Press
Awards & press
Recognition earned by the projects, and the coverage that followed them.
Listed only where the work is mine. Awards from BLVD projects that predate my time there, and honours belonging to my partners rather than to the buildings, are deliberately left out.
Awards
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2024
The first MICHELIN Key hotels
MICHELIN Guide · The Georgian Hotel
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2024
The 100 Best New Hotels of the Year
Travel + Leisure · The Georgian Hotel
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2022
Development of the Year, Select/Limited Service
ALIS · citizenM Downtown LA
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2021
Gold Medal CRE Award
LA Business Journal · Soho Warehouse
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2020
Hotel Deal of the Year
LA Business Journal · The Georgian Hotel
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2020
Citation Award for Adaptive Reuse
SoCal Development Forum · Soho Warehouse
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2020
#1 Los Angeles Hotel
TripAdvisor · The Hoxton, Downtown LA
In my own words
Interviews and coverage that quote me directly.
The projects elsewhere
Where the buildings are written about by people other than me.
The Georgian Hotel
Press archive ↗
The hotel’s own collection — Vogue, Condé Nast Traveler, Travel + Leisure, Hospitality Design and more.
citizenM Downtown LA
Project record ↗
The Modular Building Institute’s record of the first high-rise modular hotel on the West Coast.
citizenM Downtown LA
Construction case study ↗
How 315 rooms were manufactured off-site and stacked eleven storeys in a severe seismic zone.
The Georgian has also appeared in Vogue, Condé Nast Traveler, Travel + Leisure, the Hollywood Reporter and the Los Angeles Times. The hotel keeps the fullest archive.
Contact
Press enquiries.
[email protected]For interviews, commentary on hospitality and adaptive reuse, or anything about the projects above.