Bucking the trend of sleek charcoal boxes in Los Angeles, this playful 5 story rental apartment building animates the street and helps give a sense of place to the growing, amorphous neighborhood. It has a prominent triangulated site, on an interstitial street across from a bland Ralph's supermarket, one block from Wilshire Boulevard. The building deepens the LA context in that it belongs to and celebrates the iconclastic spirit of the city. With a respectful nod to Corbusier's brutalist Unite D'habitation, and also the vertical struts of Los Angelene modern master, Richard Neutra, it pools the ecologies of the site from the ocean waves mimicked in its subtle curves of glass and fiber cement, to the reflected palm trees that line the sidewalk. Special mention in Architizer A + Awards, 2019. The rear courtyard is shaped by a wall with colored niches for plants and people. Global Future design Award 2020