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LOHA utilizes "material layering" for Nike Icon Studios building in Los Angeles

Architecture firm LOHA used "material layering" to create a light-filled workspace in California for photographers, videographers and other creatives involved in brand imaging for sportswear brand Nike.

The project – formally called The Nike Icon Studios LA – is the flagship studio space for the company's operations for global brand imaging.

The project is Nike's flagship studio space for global brand imaging

Located near LA's border with Culver City, the building houses office space, meeting rooms and studios for video and photography. Formerly these functions were spread across multiple locations.

"Now everything is under one roof, enabling Nike to streamline their brand imaging operations," said local firm LOHA.

Multiple activities take place in the studio

The architects were tasked with creating a flexible environment within an existing, concrete-and-steel building that totals 42,000 square feet (3,902 square metres).

The two-storey structure has a long, linear footprint, measuring 487 feet long by 86 feet wide (148 by 26 metres).

LOHA sought to create a workplace that pairs art and science

"Influenced by the base building's linear geometry, the project is organized along a central spine that runs throughout, serving as the primary circulation," the architects said.

LOHA said it sought to create a workspace that met precise technical and performative requirements and embodied a pairing of art and science, much like Nike's products. Adaptability was also a guiding concern.

For interior finishes, the team used purposeful materials

"Each of the production spaces is built to the ideal specifications set by the requirements of their operations, but also made to be modular, re-combinable and entirely flexible," the team said.

The ground level encompasses studios and support spaces for functions such as styling, loading and storage. The upper level – which reads as a mezzanine – holds offices, conference rooms and a post-production lab. Both floors have employee break areas.

Underfoot is concrete flooring sealed with wax and rubber-cork flooring

Daylight flows in through skylights made of either glass or polycarbonate panels, some of which have operable bi-fold doors that provide light control.

The centre of the building contains the main entry and a "social core" spanning two levels. Upstairs, one finds a patio with wooden seating platforms, dining furniture and ping-pong tables.

For interior finishes, the team used purposeful materials and a colour palette mostly limited to white, black and grey.

Underfoot is concrete flooring sealed with wax and rubber-cork flooring. Walls are made of white gypsum board walls, with felt panelling or perforated metal panels used in certain areas.

"The workplace is and will continue to be a rapidly changing organism," the team said

Overhead, there are elements to control sound, such as fabric-wrapped panels, acoustic plaster and ceiling sound baffles.

To help light flow through the building, the team avoided solid surfaces where possible.

Offices are included upstairs

The main staircase is enclosed by walls made of a polypropylene industrial fabric that is draped over a steel frame. Upstairs, glazed surfaces have varying levels of opacity, depending upon the function of the room they border or enclose.

"This material layering provides a higher degree of light quality, allowing light to pass from the perimeter into the building in an intentional and controlled way," the team said.

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"Functioning like a camera itself, the studio is designed like a series of lenses that controls the light quality within."

The building also features a number of artist-created murals, many of which depict athletes associated with Nike and Los Angeles. Artists also created graphic wayfinding elements found in the facility.

Artists created graphic wayfinding elements

LOHA emphasized that the building is meant to provide a physical place where people can come together – a particularly important consideration given the ongoing pandemic.

"The workplace is and will continue to be a rapidly changing organism," the team said. "Despite technological acceleration and work that is accessible anytime from anywhere, there remains a vital need for spaces that connect us physically."

LOHA created the space with a paired-back colour palette

Other office projects for Nike include two buildings on its main campus in Oregon – the Skylab-designed Serena Williams Building, which is clad in armour-like plates, and the Lebron James Innovation Center, designed by Olson Kundig and wrapped in steel mesh.

The photography is byIwan Baan and Here And Now Agency.

Project credits:

Architect: Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects (LOHA)
Team: Lorcan O'Herlihy (founder, design principal), Ian Dickenson (project director), Jason King, Vy Drouine-Le
Client: Nike

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LOHA designs Granville1500 student housing in Los Angeles

Three sculptural, metal-clad volumes form a student housing complex by American studio LOHA that is designed to look less bulky than a typical apartment building.

The project, Granville1500, occupies a block-long property in Los Angeles, near the city of Santa Monica. It is named after its address, 1500 South Granville Avenue.

Granville1500 is made up of three sculptural blocks

Located within a car-centric part of the city, the site formerly held an auto dealership. Just across the street is another project by local firm LOHA – a student housing complex called Westgate1515 that also takes up an entire block.

The Granville building totals 313,000 square feet (29,079 square metres) and serves as housing for medical students and staff at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Its 153 apartments are reportedly offered at below-market rates.

The volumes are clad in metal

While not initially designed for UCLA, the university purchased the building shortly after it was completed. The campus is a short bike or bus ride away.

LOHA's goal for the project was to create a building that helped define the area and activated pedestrian activity. In addition to the apartments, the building has ground-level retail space.

LOHA created the student housing for a site in Los Angeles

"The project reinforces a sense of place and the feeling of arrival in an area that was once inaccessible and lacking urban life," the team said.

"Though it was constructed on a tight budget, it is engaged with its environment in contrast to the siloed, self-styled 'luxury' apartment towers scattered around West Los Angeles," they added.

The complex provides homely housing for students

For the rectangular site, the team conceived three sculptural volumes that are intermixed with outdoor space totalling 21,500 square feet (1,997 square metres). The volumes are linked by bridges.

The composition is meant to break "down the bulk typical of most housing projects".

The apartments have bright interiors

"Rather than one massive, imposing facade, three discreet wedge-shaped volumes appear along Santa Monica Boulevard, each of them deftly touching down on the pavement," the team said.

To further lighten the building's appearance, LOHA strategically carved out corners to form inverted prisms.

Openings found throughout the complex help bring in daylight

"Besides providing breathing room beneath the structure, the voids push the building back from the property line, with the added benefit of widening the sidewalk," said the architects.

Exterior walls are clad in grey-fluted metal that produces an interesting play of light and shadow. Openings found throughout the complex help bring in daylight and foster cross-ventilation.

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Outdoor spaces are equipped with movable seating that supports social gatherings of various sizes. The largest outdoor area has a swimming pool.

The building has a number of sustainable elements, including a rainwater collection system, drought-resistant vegetation and rooftop solar panels. The complex offers bicycle storage and electric-vehicle charging stations.

The building includes rooftop solar panels

LOHA has envisioned the building as a model for housing located along dying commercial corridors and in undefined areas on the edges of neighbourhoods.

The firm has conceived the project as a type of "missing middle housing" – a term used to describe low-scale, multi-unit buildings in walkable neighbourhoods. Missing middle housing typically exists between dense urban districts and areas with single-family homes.

The composition is meant to break "down the bulk typical of most housing projects"

The Granville project aims to help shift perceptions about what is possible in this particular area of Los Angeles.

"The resulting 'urban village' strives to engage the public on a stretch of roadway better known for speeding cars and heavy traffic than a lively pedestrian promenade," LOHA said.

"This project changes the conversation of what a neighborhood can be."

The building is named after its address, 1500 South Granville Avenue

LOHA, or Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects, has completed a number of residential projects in Los Angeles since the firm was established in 1994.

Others include a four-storey apartment building with stepped terraces and outdoor corridors, and a row of sculptural, metal-clad homes that explore possibilities for the "small lot subdivision typology".

The photography is byHere and Now Agency.

Project credits:

Architect: LOHA (Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects)
Project team: Lorcan O'Herlihy (principal in charge), Judson Buttner (project lead), Damian Possidente, Giovanni Fruttaldo, Maria Galustian, Chris Gassaway, Rosemary Jeremy, Abel Garcia
Landscape architect: LA Group Inc
Structural and civil engineering: John Labib & Associates
Interior design: Ariel Fox Design
Contractor: Suffolk Construction
Client: CIM Group

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Sloped walls form Canyon Drive housing complex by LOHA in Los Angeles

American firm LOHA has completed a row of sculptural, metal-clad homes in Los Angeles that is meant to explore possibilities for the "small lot subdivision typology".

The Canyon Drive project is located near Hollywood, just south of Beachwood Canyon. Totalling 10,000 square feet (929 square metres), the housing development consists of five, three-story units on a slender, rectangular lot.

Aluminium panels cover the top portion of each volume at Canyon Drive

The project was informed by the City of LA's Small Lot Subdivision Ordinance, which was initiated by smart growth proponents and adopted in 2005.

"The ordinance aimed to encourage the construction of smaller, more affordable infill housing to target first-time home buyers in an increasingly unaffordable market," said local studio LOHA.

Cedar wraps the two-car garage on the bottom level

Moreover, the ordinance was meant to increase density while preserving the residential scale of many LA neighbourhoods, the firm added.

"Our Canyon Drive project examines the small lot subdivision typology by taking advantage of its efficiencies of footprint and density while creating unique homes filled with light and air," said LOHA.

The building has a nautical appearance from some angles

The design began with a single mass that met the maximum allowable envelope. The mass was then divided up by tilting exterior walls at different angles, resulting in individual homes with an abstracted A-frame shape.

The central portion of each dwelling swells outward to create more interior space.

Sloped walls create extra space in some of the rooms

By sloping the walls, the team was able to provide opportunities for sun exposure and natural ventilation, while also creating homes that feel distinct from one another.

"This injects a sense of the individuality of single-family homes, missing from many small-lot subdivision developments," the architects said.

The units are arranged over three storeys

To achieve the building's sculptural shape – which has a nautical look from certain vantage points – the team used angled wall studs and panel systems.

"The wood framing is expressed internally, so the overall geometry is legible from inside the home," the studio added.

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Facades are clad in two different materials. Cedar wraps the bottom level, which holds a two-car garage.

For the upper portion, which cantilevers over the garage entrance, aluminium panels and storefront glazing present a lighter appearance.

Kitchens feature marble-topped counters

"These material choices filter natural light into the living areas but maintain privacy – essential when building close to other properties," the team said.

Within the home, the first floor holds two bedrooms, while the top level encompasses an open zone for lounging, dining and cooking.

Each home has a roof deck in place of a back garden

Interior finishes include white oak flooring and a kitchen island topped with Bardiglio marble.

In lieu of a traditional back garden, each home also has a roof deck, which offers views of the neighbourhood and a place to take in fresh air.

Each dwelling swells outward to create space inside

LOHA, or Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects, has completed a number of residential projects in Los Angeles since the firm was established in 1994.

Others include a four-storey apartment building with stepped terraces and outdoor corridors, and a black-and-white student housing complex that occupies an entire city block, and

The photography is byHere and Now Agency.

Project credits:

Architect: LOHA (Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects)
Project team: Lorcan O'Herlihy (principal-in-charge), Brian Adolph (director), Noelle White (project lead), Nick Hopson, Cameron Overy, Chris Gassaway, Leo Yu
Client: Leeor Maciborski

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Competition: win a copy of Architecture Is a Social Act by Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects

For our latest competition, we've teamed up with Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects (LOHA) to offer readers the chance to win one of five copies of its monograph Architecture Is a Social Act.

Architecture Is a Social Act: Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects covers 28 projects by the American architecture firm from across its nearly 30-year history.

Five readers will win a copy of the book, which aims to spark creative ideas and instigate important questions about how architecture can be used to elevate the human condition.

Architecture Is a Social Act: Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects covers 28 projects

Founded in 1994 by Lorcan O'Herlihy, LOHA is an architecture and urban design firm of twenty-five designers, with offices in Los Angeles and Detroit.

The book is broken up into six sections, each addressing how architecture can be "used as a tool to engage in politics, economics, aesthetics, and smart growth by promoting social equity, human interaction, and cultural evolution," according to the firm.

The book aims to spark creative ideas and instigate important questions

Projects range from small Santa Monica storefronts to vast urban plans in Detroit. They also include houses of various shapes and sizes, and strategic plans for cities' future growth.

The book aims to provide readers with insight into the practice's process when engaging a new project or site, including understanding its history and context, and how it is informed by the culture and ecology of the people who live there.

Five readers will win a copy of the book

"Good architecture is no longer about simply designing a building as an isolated object but about meeting head-on the forces that are shaping today's world," said O’Herlihy.

LOHA has built over 100 projects across three continents, including a black-and-white student housing building and an affordable housing complex in Los Angeles, and a housing block with cedar cladding in Detroit.

Projects range from small Santa Monica storefronts to vast urban plans

The studio has won over 100 awards, including the AIA California Distinguished Practice Award and the AIA LA Firm of the Year Award.

In 2018, it was ranked as the number one firm in the US by Architect's Magazine's annual Architect 50 list of the best practices in the country.

The studio's MLK1101 project, which was designed for homeless residents, was also named housing project of the year at Dezeen Awards 2019.

Five readers will win a copy of Architecture Is a Social Act: Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects. The book is also available to buy online.

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Competition closes 6 August 2021. Terms and conditions apply. Five winners will be selected at random and notified by email.

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LOHA clads John R 2660 apartment building in Detroit with cedar

American architecture firm LOHA has completed a housing block with cedar cladding and a stepped form in a once-rundown Detroit neighbourhood that is undergoing redevelopment.

The project, called John R 2660, is located in Brush Park, a neighbourhood that sits just beyond the city's downtown district. It was an affluent area in the 1850s but later became neglected.

John R 2660 is in Brush Park, Detroit

The neighbourhood has experienced a rebirth in recent years, with new buildings cropping up there and old ones being renovated.

The LOHA project – which is named after its address on John R Street – is the first of four apartment buildings that have been designed for the area by the California firm. All four are meant to add density while respecting the area's character and history.

The building is clad in reddish cedar

"As architects, it's important to understand the culture of where you're building from the standpoint of the ecology of people, and come forward with solutions that respond to those aspects of the city," said LOHA founder Lorcan O'Herlihy, who founded his practice in 1994.

Occupying a corner property, the John R 2660 building contains 35 residential units and ground-level retail. It totals 42,580 square feet (3,956 square metres).

Cedar also lines the entrance's interior

Roughly rectangular in plan, the six-storey building has a stepped form – a response to the area's different building scales. An angled wall on the third level helps the building look more dynamic than the standard boxy apartment building.

Facades are clad in reddish cedar and stretches of glass.

"Detroit's rich material palette inspired us to wrapped the building in a rhythm of thin vertical boards of Western red cedar and floor-to-ceiling windows," the team said.

Wrapping each floor level are horizontal bands with brownish, metal coping – a detail to help break down the massing. Dark mullions contrast with the wood cladding, as do metal panels above and below the windows.

Each floor is wrapped with metal coping

A portion of the street-level facade recedes inward at the ground level, forming an overhang and allowing for a larger sidewalk.

"By expanding the bandwidth of the sidewalk, we create a lively pedestrian thoroughfare and provide shade and shelter from the elements," the team said.

The main residential entrance is on the southern end of the building and sits alongside retail space that occupies the majority of the ground level.

A bedroom unit with floor-to-ceiling windows

The building contains studios to one- and two-bedroom units, ranging from 450 to 1,000 square feet (42 to 93 square metres).

The tall windows bring in daylight, and 9.5-foot (2.9 metres) ceilings create an airy atmosphere.

The building sits just beyond the city's downtown district

"Another strategy used to maximise the space was to push the bathrooms and kitchens against the corridor wall, as a way to open up the bedrooms and main living spaces as much as possible to solar exposure along the outside wall," the LOHA team said.

A communal terrace is found on the third level where residents can look out over the historic Victorian mansion across the street.

A communal terrace overlooks a Victorian mansion

LOHA has designed three additional apartment buildings for Brush Park – all part of the City Modern development funded by Bedrock Detroit.

LOHA was approached by the company in 2016 and asked to design four corner buildings for the development. Each structure has a distinct form and is clad in either brick, wood or metal.

The building is set back at street level to make the pavement wider

According to the team, City Modern will be the first large-scale housing project in Detroit since Lafayette Park – a massive residential development in the 1950s that was largely designed by architect Mies van der Rohe.

Unlike many 20th-century modernist developments that ignored an area's existing fabric, LOHA's buildings are intended to honour the local context.

John R 2660 sits next to more historical buildings

"We saw this project as a platform to further expand the idea that buildings should be carefully woven into city life, not parachuted in," the team said.

"We hope that our projects at Brush Park will be a model for revitalising an urban district."

The apartment building by night

LOHA – or Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects – has completed numerous residential complexes, many of them located in the firm's home city of Los Angeles.

These include an apartment complex in the Silver Lake neighbourhood with stepped terraces and outdoor corridors and a black-and-white housing complex in Koreatown that has a curvilinear courtyard.

The firm's MLK1101 project, which was designed for homeless residents, was named housing project of the year by Dezeen Awards 2019.

Photography is by Jason Keen.

Project credits:

Architect: LOHA (Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects)
Landscape architect: Hamilton Anderson Associates
Civil engineer: Giffels Webster
Structural engineer: SDI Structures
MEP engineer: Strategic Energy Solutions

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LOHA creates Westgate1515 student apartment complex in Los Angeles

Architecture firm LOHA has incorporated terraces and covered balconies into a black-and-white student housing building that occupies an entire city block in West Los Angeles.

Built on the former site of an auto dealership, the Westgate1515 residential complex sits along Santa Monica Boulevard, a thoroughfare that connects various communities in the LA area.

Westgate1515 is a student housing complex

The development serves as housing for students attending the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), which lies about three miles to the northeast. Students can get to the campus by foot, bike, bus or car.

"The project embraces the culture and ecology of its surroundings and provides students the opportunity to engage with the neighbourhood in a more holistic way," said local firm LOHA, noting that college campuses are often closed off from the city.

For the 335,000-square-foot (31,123-square-metre) project, LOHA sought to break down the scale of a typical apartment block and demonstrate new approaches to multifamily housing in the area, where cars tend to dominate.

"The resulting 'urban village' strives to engage the public on a stretch of roadway better known for fast vehicular traffic than a lively pedestrian streetscape," the team said. "This project aims to change the conversation of what this neighbourhood can be."

The complex building is black and white

The complex contains 147 residential units, along with 42,000 square feet (3,902 metres) of commercial space. Current tenants include a Target department store and a pet groomer.

The complex consists of multi-storey volumes positioned around open areas. The height of each volume varies, with the tallest rising five levels.

Balconies characterise the complex

Voids were strategically placed within the development to create pedestrian zones and public space.

Facades consist of white stucco and black, corrugated metal – a colour scheme intended to provide contrast and exaggerate the cuts in the building.

Planters are scattered around the apartments

The team carved away portions of exterior walls to form recessed balconies and inset windows. Metal mesh railings with a diamond pattern line the balconies.

"The building's facade is designed to be porous and inviting, opening up and folding down to the bustle of Santa Monica Boulevard, while remaining private and enclosed along its residential corridors," the team said.

The building overlooks Santa Monica Boulevard

Westgate1515 offers one- and two-bedroom apartments, along with studios. Apartments range from 600 to 1,300 square feet (56 to 121 square metres).

Units feature basic finishes like white walls and wood or carpet flooring. Shared amenities at the complex include a swimming pool, a fitness centre, a clubhouse and a co-working space.

Inside an apartment of Westgate1515

Founded in 1994, LOHA – or Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects – has completed several student housing projects in California.

Others include the wedge-shaped SL11024 complex in Los Angeles, which was created for students and faculty members at UCLA, and a dormitory made of economical materials at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Photography is by Paul Vu.

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