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PHOTOGRAPHY: BENNY CHAN FOTOWORKS, BEFORE PHOTO COURTESY GENSLER (OPPOSITE); UEDA PHOTOGRAPHY, BEFORE PHOTO COURTESY HLW (THIS PAGE)
before
The Los Angeles office
of HLW converted a former
U.S. postal distribution center
(top left) built in the 1930s
into The Reserve in Playa
Vista with tenants including
TMZ, Sony PlayStation,
and Microsoft. To bring
daylight into this previously
windowless structure that
is 250 feet deep, HLW inserted
skylights and a large courtyard
(above) that features a mural
by local artist David Flores.
Composite wood surfaces
warm a reception area (left).
Storefront systems were
used at the perimeters
(below) to provide light
and views and to allow tenants
and their clients quick access
to the outdoors.
for global advertising agency TBWA\Chiat\Day within
a 120,000-square-foot former pharmaceutical manufacturing
plant in Playa del Rey. Firms that have recently completed
similar conversion projects-or are working on them-
include SOM, Rios Clementi Hale Studios, Shubin +
Donaldson Architects, Rapt Studio, RAC Design Build,
Wolcott Architecture | Interiors, and Felderman
Keatinge & Associates.
Culture based on reuse
The influx of companies in Los Angeles focused on contentgeneration, such as app development, video production,
and social media engagement, has pushed renovation
and adaptive reuse projects in the city into overdrive. But
why reuse an outmoded building when new construction
allows companies to tailor buildings to their needs? In most
cases, it's simply more affordable to renovate an existing
building and achieve the aesthetics-such as exposed brick
walls, metal or wood structure, and polished concrete floors-
that have come to be associated with creative office spaces.
"Reuse is part of the culture of what it means to have
a cool office in L.A.," says Emmanuel Soriano, market
and development partner at Industry Partners, a real estate
services firm specializing in the representation of landlords,
tenants, and developers. The company's portfolio includes
the transformation of a former Santa Monica carpet cleaning
company into the headquarters for J.J. Abrams's Bad Robot
Productions by Joey Shimoda, Contract's 2013 Designer
of the Year. Also in Industry Partners's portfolio: the Beats
by Dre office (Contract, September 2014) in former warehouses
in Culver City and Nasty Gal's Downtown headquarters
in what was an outdated office space in the PacMutual
contract
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Contract - September 2015
Contents
Editorial
Industry News
Columnist: As Designers, Where Do We Find Purpose?
Innovative Illumination
Trash to Treasure
Product Briefs
Miu Miu Aoyama
Watches of Switzerland
E. Tautz
Alchemist
Recreating L.A.
IIDA Best Interiors of Latin America and the Caribbean 2015
Designers Select: Surfacing
Sources
Ad Index
Exhibition: The First Comprehensive Museum Survey on David Adjaye Opens at the Art Institute of Chicago
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