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Enviornmental Design
Environmental Design encompasses the full scope of spatial design fields: architecture, landscape, interiors, and environmental graphics. These four fields in their numerous manifestations organize and shape the spaces and contexts for all our activities and relations.
Treehouse Kids' Adventure

The Treehouse, a museum-like playground, brings the outdoors inside inviting children to begin their alpine journey through hands-on, interactive activities. Whether nestled in the colorful Butterfly Room, wriggling in the Fox Den, jumping in Trout Haven or crawling through Beaver Lodge, each room's design is tailored for a specific age group giving kids a one-of-a-kind journey.




Treehouse
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   Client:
   Aspen Skiing Company
   Work Performed:
   Concept design and fabrication through
   installation.
   Architect:
   Cottle Carr Yaw Architect
   Design:
   Lexington


Pacific Island Celebration

Lexington fabricated and installed environmental graphics and signage for the Aquarium of the Pacific, which takes its visitors on a journey of discovery through the world's largest ocean. Graphics were both decorative and informational, featuring artwork in the style native to the different Pacific regions from sunny Southern California and Baja, to the frigid waters of the North Pacific, to the colorful reefs of the Tropical Pacific.

In addition, Lexington fabricated and installed several interactive outdoor exhibits for children, including an archer fish and a tugboat.


Everyone is happy with the look and quality of the project, and its positive impact on the visitors and AOP team alike.
Zofia Kostyrko
deZign sKape

AOP
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   Client:
   Aquarium of the Pacific
   Work Performed:
   Design Development based on Schematic
   drawings provided by art director.
   Fabrication and installation on fixed budget.
   Architect:
   deZign sKape


Broadway City

Lexington provided a themed interior for an arcade on 42nd street in New York City. Local historical landmarks are incorporated into the space such as Statue of Liberty's head, the New York Central Library lion and the Greenwich arch. The signage and roller coaster staircase is from Coney Island. The Brooklyn Bridge forms a mezzanine on the upper level. Set dressing and props illustrate the skyscraper builders during the City's development boom. Murals cover all the facility walls with the New York Skyline, Wall Street, and Ellis Island.

Broadway City
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   Client:
   Dick Simon Developer
   Work Performed:
   Design Development and fabrication through
   installation.
   Architect:
   Harmon Jablin Architects


Broadway City

Lexington technically designed, engineered and fabricated artist Lynn Goodpasture's whimsically designed clock to grace the new home of The Center for Early Education. This prominent, twelve foot public art piece is backlit with neon and is constructed of metal and custom stained glass. It's located at the corner of Melrose and La Cienega in West Hollywood.


Thank you both again for taking on The Children's Clock project in the midst of development, under a difficult & inflexible schedule, and seeing it through the tricky installation. That was truly an exciting operation, beautifully executed!….
The level of craftsmanship was so impressive. Many thanks to all of you at Lexington for the hard work and intelligence you put into the clock. You made it a success.

Lynn Goodpasture
Designer

Center for Early Education Clock - West Hollywood, CA
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   Client:
   The Center for Early Education
   Work Performed:
   Design Development and fabrication through
   installation.
   Designer:
   Lynn Goodpasture


Broadway City

Lexington developed the MY LA, MY CHLA themed experience for the new Gateway lobby of the hospital. Themed exhibit elements include exterior oversized wood blocks with the CHLA logo, exterior custom glass panels of artwork created by patients, a Welcome Wall, information desk, interactive P-LA-Y Tower, LA-Phant soft play sculpture, Wave Wall, Story Corner, Donor Wall, themed aquarium and more.

The brightly colored environments and fun interactives help relax both children and their parents, transforming what is usually an unpleasant experience into a more comfortable and even entertaining one.


Through colorful mural images echoing the neighborhoods of Los Angeles, through iconography in all the play areas evoking the diversity of the region, the new entry hall is a colorful and unintimidating environment that signals that a multilayered kind of medicine is practiced here
Susan Freudenheim
Los Angeles Times

Many thanks for the wonderful LA Phant! It's a true work of art!
Marty Sklar
Walt Disney Imagineering

IIDA Award
"Honorable mention" 2001 

Childrens Hospital Los Angeles - Los Angeles, CA
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   Client:
   Childrens Hospital Los Angeles
   Work Performed:
   Design-Build from schematic design
   through installation.
   Concept Designs:
   WDI
   Press:
    Los Angeles Times


Lexington fabricated and installed a three-dimensional mural above the concession stand at the Pacific Theaters at The Grove in Los Angeles. The Grove at Farmers Market is a landmark 80,000 square foot upscale, open-air shopping center. The cartoon-like snack characters, including an ICEE, nachos, and popcorn, were sculpted and painted, and then mounted to a graphic background creating a dimensional environment in the theater lobby.


THEA Award
"Themed Retail" 2003 
Grove Concession
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   Client:
   Caruso Affiliated Holdings
   Work Performed:
   Fabrication through Installation
   Design:
   Amalgamated Studio


100 Years of Architecture was an exhibition at the Geffen Contemporary of the Museum of Modern Art in Los Angeles in 2001. Select architects were invited to exhibit current works at the exhibit and Michael Maltzan Architects contacted Lexington to provide a scaled model of a project currently in development. The model depicts the central courtyard remodel of the Hammer Museum in West Los Angeles. It is constructed of mdf, plexiglass and aluminum with the use of the CNC machine, which routes sheet good material based on AutoCAD information.


"I want to thank you both for your contribution in making the MOCA show an enormous success for us. The model looks absolutely spectacular, and continues to be the star of our portion of the show.

Michael Maltzan
Michael Maltzan Architecture, Inc

Hammer Model
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   Client:
   Michael Maltzan Architecture
   Work Performed:
   Technical design and fabrication through
   installation.
   Design:
   Michael Maltzan Architecture
Lexington developed the new environmental graphics for The Jim Henson Company and their new home at the Charlie Chaplin Studio lot. A steel header joined the two adjacent buildings to create the main entrance. A 12' tall steel and fiberglass Kermit dressed as Chaplin was installed on the roof of the gate tower, which dated back to 1928. To secure such a large sculpture to the tower a super structure had to be fabricated to hold both the tower and Kermit.

Press Release:
NEW YORK, JUNE 5, 2000 - In a touching homage to both Jim Henson and Charlie Chaplin, today, The Jim Henson Company unveiled a stately 12 foot tall statue of Kermit the Frog dressed as Charlie Chaplin's The Little Tramp, which was permanently mounted on the tower of the studio's front gates. All who enter or pass by will be reminded that the two visionary's contributions to mankind are celebrated on these grounds. The statue's theme began as an idea of Brian Henson and Lisa Henson, Jim Henson's son and daughter, in honor of their father and is the combined creative efforts of many people (Ed Eyth of The Jim Henson Company, freelance artists Jim Mahon and Janis Beauchamp, Maria Jimenez of Jimenez Studios and Craig Shepherd, Dave Conner and Barbara Grill of Lexington Scenery & Props, Inc.)

Jim Henson Company
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   Client:
   Jim Henson Company
   Work Performed:
   Technical design and fabrication through
   installation.
   Design:
   Jim Henson Company

Lexington's design team worked in conjunction with the owner- client to create an awning that would add a sense of style and human scale to their newly remodeled façade. The awning structure is aluminum and hung with stainless steel hardware. The frame then captures the individual glass panels.


Kaiser Awning - Santa Monica, CA
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   Client:
   Kaiser Marketing
   Work Performed:
   Concept Design through installation.
   Designer:
   Lexington


Dream Home exhibit showcasing the evolution of housing from cave, to pioneer cabin, to modern home. Structures were fabricated and installed at Chicago’s Two North Riverside Plaza. A flexible superstructure was developed to allow for modification of the three set-ups.

Press Release:
Chicago, September 17, 2002 Prehistoric Dwelling Found at Chicago’s Two North Riverside Plaza.

Washington Mutual unveils a one-of-a-kind advertisement in the middle of the city: a “life-size” cave dwelling proclaiming the company’s ability to meet the needs of homebuyers. The campaign will feature three separate “life-size” dwellings; a cave home, a log cabin and a modern day home created by a professional design company with experience building theme park and Hollywood movie sets. Each dwelling will be displayed separately and will rotate over an eight-month time period, about two and a half months for each set. Located at Two North Riverside Plaza in Chicago, the unusual advertisement will include the message: “We’ve been getting people into their dream homes for years.”

Media Contact - Olivia Riley
Washington Mutual


Washington Mutual
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   Client:
   Wrecking Ball
   Work Performed:
   Technical design and fabrication through
   installation.
   Design:
   Chuck Conner