Artist:	Mythograph, Inc. (Kipp Kobayashi and Marta Perlas)
Title:	tbd
Date:	2010
District:	Second Supervisorial District
Location:	3850 West Manhattan Beach Boulevard Lawndale, CA 90260
Department:	Parks and Recreation

Renovations at Alondra Community Regional Park will include replacing the existing pool, bathhouse and equipment building with a 25’ x 25’ meter pool, a 6,000 sq. ft. pool house and recreation building, a 3,000 sq. ft. water play area, a 14,000 sq. ft. skateboard park, new restrooms, a picnic shelter and various other improvements, such as new tubular steel fencing. Artists Kipp Kobayashi and Marta Perlas will collaborate with Frank Webb Architects to integrate artwork into the project, with an emphasis on the pool deck, pool house, skateboard park, and water play area.

The project will also incorporate energy and water conservation efficiency devices, low impact designs, drought tolerant landscaping, and other sustainable green building features that will meet certification requirements of the United States Green Building Council’s LEED program. Construction is scheduled to be complete in May 2010.

About the Artist: Together, artist Kipp Kobayashi and architect Marta Perlas form Mythograph, Inc. They have been commissioned for several public projects including works at the Serra Mesa – Kearny Mesa Branch Library, the Founder’s Garden in Ontario, California, and the 7th Street/ Metro Center Station for the Los Angeles MTA. Kipp Kobayashi received his MFA from USC and has worked in environmental design for Walt Disney Imagineering. Marta Perlas, AIA, designed the Ontario Center View Corridor and the Calexico New Port of Entry in Imperial County, California.