Commercial Office Building
Los Angeles, California, USA
Project by Gensler
Currently in Construction Documents
Project team;
Li Wen - Design Director
Brian DiMaggio - Project Manager
Michael Frederick - Job Captain
Greg Ingalls - Architect
Julian Ma - Designer / Draftsman
Page Under Construction
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The Sawtelle Office Building is a shell-and-core project in West LA, within view off both the 495 and 10 freeways. With such visual exposure, the client has agreed to prioritize budget on the unitized curtain wall system, which serves as the jewelry draped over the outer cube skin. The mass of cube is carved away to reveal an inner cube, clad with a more transparent storefront, providing more visual draw inward to the creative office space it encloses from double height exterior terraces.
The site flanks across the southern half of a city block, traversing Tennessee Avenue, a direct outlet from a 405 exit off-ramp. Off Tennessee, visitors and tenants can either pull in underneath the building to access to garage, or choose to turn onto Corinth Avenue, and take an additional right turn into the paseo.
What was once a back alley, now a pedestrian-shared walk and drive way, where texture and pattern slow traffic, and direct workers to their final destination.
In the morning and evening the paseo may serve as a means for vehicular transport along the edges, but during the day, workers will fill the street among food trucks, with plenty of space to dine in the shade.
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