Celebrating 15 years of the Downtown Renaissance, the Central City Association of Los Angeles has honored AC Martin with the 2014 Heart of the City Award. 

Thomas Kerwin details the design and construction process of the new Wilshire Grand tower in the Los Angeles Sunday Times.

Joel Kotin voices his opinion about the Los Angeles economy and how the Wilshire Grand Hotel may boost jobs in the OC Register. 

In this article and video, Arirang News talks about Hanjin Group, the company behind the Wilshire Grand project, a Korean shipping and airline giant. According to a report by the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation, Korea is ranked as one of the top sources of foreign investment in L.A. County.

Our very own David Martin is quoted in this article about South Park, the new housing development going up in DTLA. South Park is currently being designed here at AC Martin. 

Here is an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal about the high level research that is taking place in the AC Martin designed National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Guinness World Record 

On February 16th, 2014 the Wilshire Grand Project achieved a Guinness World Record for the largest continuous concrete pour.  Over 2,100 trucks poured 42,930 tons of concrete into the foundation of the Wilshire Grand tower.

A new world record was set in downtown Los Angeles as the foundation of the 73-story hotel at Wilshire Grand Center had more than 2,100 truckloads of concrete poured into it. Adrian Arambulo reports for the NBC4 News.