The design challenge for this healthcare office was updating an aging, dank, disconnected 1960s facility, re-energizing a business? culture and espirit d?corps.

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Architects: Lehrer Architects

Location: United States, Echo Park, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Area: 28000.0 ft2

Project Year: 2015

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Contractor: Turelk

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From the architect. The design challenge for this healthcare office was updating an aging, dank, disconnected 1960s facility, re-energizing a business? culture and espirit d?corps.

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A dark, disconnected interior is transformed into a vibrant, naturally lit work environment that honors the bones of an existing mid-century building, anchoring it in the city by revealing views to Downtown Los Angeles to the east and Hollywood Hills to the west.

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Floor Plan

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The solution was to leverage the architecture?s excellent 1960s Modernist bones and proportions, revealing its inherent openness for the first time in its existence. The top floor is connected to the adjacent parking, the street below, the City beyond and the sky above. Removed spandrels reveal the openne...