2022 Election Meeting + Tour of New Lionakis Headquarters Office

Join AIACV for a tour and presentation at the new Lionakis office, and VOTE for the 2022 Chapter Board of Directors.

Founded in 1909 and headquartered in Sacramento for 111 years, Lionakis is one of the first design firms to establish a presence on the wider R Street Corridor planning area. The firm has a long history of embracing adaptive reuse and respecting these iconic buildings of the past, while designing for current and future workplace needs.

Their new headquarters, literally across the street from their current office, is an historic 40,000 square foot building that was originally home to the Weaver Tractor Showroom, and more recently divided into multiple tenant suites with typical nine foot lay-in ceilings hiding the enormous potential of the space. The firm is turning it once again into a single space, exposing four original four-barrel vaults, including the largest volume, with 32-foot-high ceilings, that will become the major studio space.

The renovation includes sandblasting and exposing the original board-formed concrete columns and lintels celebrating the scars that have taken place since before WWII, and exposing site-built bow trusses.

In addition to embracing the best of the original building’s structure, employee health, wellness and satisfaction informed the design. Through an engagement process that included all staff, the design evolved, providing large work stations, with adjacent collaboration spaces, a lobby area that features an adjacent café, and outdoor patio space, and both indoor and outdoor huddle spaces at ground level as well as raised “treehouses” that provide quiet workspaces in the 32-foot volume space. With a dedicated Research and Design Lab, and both formal and informal meeting spaces, staff, clients and community are participants in the design process.

Note: This is an in-person event. Masks will be required.

WHEN: Thursday, November 18, 2021

TIME: 5:00 pm – registration/voting, 5:30 – 7:00 pm – presentation & tour

PLACE: 2025 19th Street, Sacramento

COST: $10 (Members) / $20 (Non-members), includes refreshments

AIA CREDIT: AIA Members will receive 1 AIA/HSW Credit

For a ballot, candidate statements, and voter registration, visit: https://aiacv.org/2022-aiacv-board-of-directors-election/

REGISTER by November Tuesday, November 16th

For reasonable accommodations or alternate formats, please contact AIA Central Valley at least 72 hours prior to the event: [email protected]