Los Angeles studio Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney Architects transformed the derelict Los Angeles Times printing facility and Orange County newsroom into an office campus in Costa Mesa, California.
The adaptive-reuse project, known as The Press, celebrates the building's industrial history while reactivating the spaces for people.
EYRC turned an old LA Times printing facility into an office campus
The printing facility and Orange County newsroom were designed by American architecture studio William Pereira Associates and constructed from 1968-1980. Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney (EYRC) revitalized the abandoned building into a 450,000-square foot (41,800-square metre) creative campus with multiple amenities.
"We wanted to pay homage to the building's industrial past," EYRC partner Patricia Rhee told Dezeen. The complex has six key spaces
Completed in three phases, each of the building's six key spaces were renovated, and a new tilt-up addition was constructed on the northwestern side.
The studio sand-blasted the facade to remove decades of paint and expose the existing precast concrete exterior. Certain precast panels were replaced with vertical glazing to daylight the interiors.
Extensive landscaping was implemented
"Natural imperfections of a building through years of transformations were consciously expressed as an ode to the history of the building," the studio said.
EYRC worked with Saiful Bouquet Structural Engineers to open sections of the roof and facade w...