THE LODGE AT TORREY PINES
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Architect: Wimberly Allison Tong & Goo

Recognition:

AAA Five Diamond Award, November 2002
Esquire, One of "America's Best New Restaurants," October 2002
Grand Orchid Award, American Institute of Architects, San Diego Chapter, 2002
Meeting & Conventions Magazine Gold Key 2003 Award
A $55.6 million, 311,726-square-foot hotel and resort adjacent to the Torrey Pines Golf Course in La Jolla, California. The hotel has 175 guest rooms, each with golf course, ocean or courtyard views; 13,000 square feet of meeting and ballroom space; two restaurants and two bars; retail space; a luxury spa; and a 90,000-square-foot parking garage. The facilities are centered around a large courtyard featuring natural sandstone topography. The structure required the design for the use of almost every building material in use today including:

Exposed heavy timber
Natural stone
Reinforced masonry
Cast-in-place concrete
Steel frame
Precast beams and columns