Harbor Pavilion

Long Beach, California

A competition design for a waterfront pavilion with a fabric roof that opens.

A long open pavilion of slender steel columns and timber beams under a pale fabric roof on a waterfront promenade, with a timber-clad café core at the far end.

The pavilion along the promenade, harbor behind.

Type

Civic and cultural

Status

Competition, second prize

Place

Long Beach, California

Year

2025

Area

480 m² / 5,170 ft²

Client

Open competition

Team

Daniel Cho, Ada Okoro, Ben Rosen, Hana Ishikawa

Images

AI-generated imagery

Brief

An open competition for a pavilion on the waterfront with a café, public restrooms, shade and space for events.

Site

A stretch of promenade facing the harbor, exposed to sun and sea wind.

Approach

A steel and timber frame carries a fabric roof that can be drawn back on mild evenings. The café and restrooms sit in a solid timber core at one end, leaving the rest of the floor open.

Outcome

Second prize, 2025.

Plan, 1:200

View along the open deck beneath the pale fabric roof and steel column grid, toward the closed timber core at the far end.

Under the roof, looking toward the timber core.

Straight-on view of the pavilion’s long side: an even row of slender columns, a thin roof edge and the timber core, with the harbor behind.

The long side from the promenade.

Elevation from the promenade, 1:200

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