This urban residential building by Californian firm SPF Architects features design strategies to eliminate a sense of repetition or homogeneity ? qualities that can make apartment living "relatively unpleasant".
The Line Lofts are situated along Las Palmas Avenue, just one block from the famed Hollywood Boulevard.

Encompassing 68,000 square feet (6,317 square metres), the six-storey infill building is the tallest new structure in the neighbourhood, according to local firm SPF Architects, which is also known as SPF:a.
The building was constructed on a relatively slender 182-by-127 feet (55-by- 39 metre) property that is flanked on three sides by existing buildings. Given these site constraints, the architects had to "rethink the traditional floor plan."
In response, they created rectilinear forms arranged in a curve around an open-air courtyard on the south side of the property. Rather than incorporating one stairwell linking all levels, the team interspersed staircases throughout the plan.
"The building abandons the standard filing cabinet layout, taking on a C-formation and dispersing its circulation space in an unconventional but far more fluid way," the team said.

"This multi-level communication provides a visual variation among the floors and removes any feeling of sameness or repetition that can be relatively unpleasant for those living in apartment buildings," it added.
The building contains studio, one-, and two-bedroom apar...