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Columbia Square  

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Columbia Square

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The Columbia Square mixed use project encompasses a full city-block in the center of Hollywood that has been used for movie, radio, television, and music production for over a century. In total, it is approximately 668,000 square feet and includes the adaptive-reuse of the existing historic studio buildings, a new underground parking garage, three new office buildings aimed at media and entertainment tenants, a 200-unit residential tower, and a site-wide network of publicly accessible open-spaces and courtyards.

Opened in 1938, the original William Lescaze-designed Columbia Square was the West Coast headquarters of CBS and it served variously as production and studios for live-radio, television, news-production, and music recording; the renovation is being done according to the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards as the buildings are a listed Los Angeles Historical-
Cultural Monument. The new building components draw on the design-DNA of the Lescaze buildings to integrate old and new portions of the site.

The relationship and continuity between old and new is most apparent at the plaza level; the original Sunset Plaza is being re-opened as a public space and it is one of the key generators for the site-wide system of open courtyards and walkways. Likewise, the new buildings update Lescaze’s architectural massing of shifted upper-stories to allow the buildings to adapt as they rise and to change their primary frontages from the interior to the exterior of the site, or out towards the surrounding landscape as is appropriate.

Our office is the design architect for the project; we are working closely with our executive architect, House and Robertson, on all elements of the project.

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