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The Gunn Levine Associates' interior for the North Oakland Medical Centers' 14,000-sq.-ft. obstetrics unit acknowledges the multicultural community that the hospital serves. The design's focal point is the nursery. Its glass panels were designed to look like building blocks, etched with letters or characters from the different languages spoken in the community. The unit includes labor/delivery/postpartum/recovery rooms and a physicians' lounge with an informal relaxation area, a meeting area, an alcove kitchen, locker rooms and a library. The nine-month project cost $85 per sq.-ft.
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The Dillingham Hall is uniquely-designed theater in the premises of the Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawaii. It was built in 1929 with the design of architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue and was renovated many years later with a new design by Malcolm Holzman of Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Assoc. Holzman replaced the theater's sloped roof with a barrel clay tiles to optimize the ceiling space and the trellis with steel arches and stanchions. New support facilities, dressing rooms and rehearsal space were also added to the complex.
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An Architectural Youth Program for minorities and women was organized by Marc Sokol, executive director of SITE, to give them a chance to learn designing. The program provides an overall view of drawing, model making and marketing. Classes are held after school, with 15 students per semester. Guest lecturers give lectures and the students are taken on field trips. The good response of the students and the designers to the program showed that, with financial help, more such programs could be organized.
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