OC Biz Journal: LPA Design Studios Takes on OC’s Biggest Projects

LPA Design Studios, Orange County’s largest architectural firm by billings, is coming off one of its biggest projects yet—the completion of Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian’s $1.2 billion Sun Family Campus—with more major work on the way.

The firm was chosen as the lead architect of the six-building campus, which is being capped by four facilities dedicated to women’s health and cancer and digestive health opening next month. The facilities feature outdoor courtyards designed by LPA to bring natural light and open air into patient areas.

“Hoag is a huge project, so that has been something we’ve been working toward,” Chief Executive Wendy Rogers told the Business Journal. “For the team and for us all to see that come to fruition is tremendous.”

Irvine-based LPA is the largest architectural firm in the region with $92.7 million in local billings, according to the Business Journal’s annual list of architectural firms.

The firm, which celebrated its 60th anniversary last year, has seven offices in California and Texas.

The firm’s busy project pipeline has also earned national recognition with LPA receiving the American Institute of Architects’ (AIA) 2025 Architecture Firm Award, the industry’s highest honor, for its integrated model that brings multiple design disciplines and engineering under one roof.

“I think the integrated firm makes a difference, but also the fact that we have eight different practice areas,” Rogers said.

Some of LPA’s strongest markets have been commercial and workplace projects, along with healthcare, a sector the firm entered about a decade ago.

Read the full article at the Orange County Business Journal.