A renovation of a historic, 12-story tower to a residence and hotel located in downtown Los Angeles. The ground floor features a new streetscape with street trees, enhanced paving, planters, and bike racks. The rooftop provides guests with an indoor-outdoor entertainment room, cook center, fire lounge, sun deck, and custom daybeds.

Client: Palace Company, LLC

Architect: Omgivning

Built in 1910, this historic downtown Los Angeles fashion district building served many uses; however, most notably it was Dearden’s furniture store. Sitting quiet for years, it is now being converted to a restaurant, retail, and creative office space. We couldn’t help but think of memories forgotten; therefore, our concept revolves around the idea of reactivating a forgotten social space while maintaining its original character. The courtyard connects multiple buildings together with linkage to block wide paseo.

Client: Urban Offerings

Architect: Omgivning

Won Buddhism is an enlightenment path which explores the origin of one’s authentic, true self. It is a communal based society that practice silent and moving meditation.

Situated on an undeveloped chaparral hillside overlooking Lake Elsinore, the site is home to a future meditation center and guest housing quarters. By taking the site characteristics and pulling principles from Won Buddhism our underlying concept became grounded on connecting people with nature. Focus on preservation, restoration, and site specific native palette blend the development into the existing landscape. Outdoor amenities include a central meditation garden, a meditation overlook, a connection to miles of local trails, and a community garden. Through precision and care our concept creates a center that supports an authentic, self-sufficient, minimal impact environment that provides a path to one’s true nature.

Client: Won Meditation Center

Architect: Andmore Partners

Our concept for this 7-unit bungalow court revives the traditional sense of bungalow living by creating shared social spaces that encourage small scale community living. Each unit opens to a private garden with pathways leading to a courtyard with fire lounge, cook center, and overhead dining trellis. Warm tones of the paving are reminiscent of the local coastline. The planting design demonstrates how a garden can perform as low maintenance and drought tolerant, yet function as a productive edible and botanical garden encouraging outdoor, healthy living.

Client: WNMS Communities

Architect: Khal Khaireddin Architects

This project consists of a 100-unit residential tower with retail center and parking court in Hawthorne, CA. Parks and outdoor spaces are sparse and largely overseen in the vicinity and our concept was to provide the residence with a park like open space that is safe and focused on energizing a social community. The ground floor features convenient access to a retail center with outdoor promenade.

Client: K.I.G. Properties, LLC.

Architect: VTBS Architects

The development features a 3-story, mixed-use street side with 29 multi-family neighborhood adjacent townhomes. Situated on a dividing line in La Crescenta where residential neighborhood meets commercial, we found an opportunity to create a connection to the local neighborhood, one that provides interconnecting gardens and safe passage to main street retail. Through this connection our goal is to promote a social community and healthy living.

Client: Hillstate Mixed Use & Townhouse Development

Architect: Andmore Partners

This project is a 65-unit assisted senior living community located in Buena Park. Our concept provides an outdoor experience that improves quality of life by supporting physical and mental health. Outdoor amenities that include outdoor terraces, a fire lounge, an open lawn, a bocce ball court, a sensory garden, and looping walkways offer active and passive uses throughout.

Client: Craig & Beach Investment Inc.

Architect: Andmore Partners

As part of the clubhouse renovation, we created a new, accessible connection from the drop off and parking area and converted a traditional front entrance into a low maintenance, drought tolerant, adaptive native landscape. The planting design demonstrates the beauty in conservation.

Client: Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation

Architect: Gwynne Pugh Urban Studio

The concept for this 43-unit affordable senior housing tower revolves around optimizing green space, sun exposure, and air quality in a narrow space to promote healthy living. Using seasonal sunshade studies, we determined planting opportunities without interrupting with air and light to the residents. We found vertical cabling allowed vines to take advantage of sunny wall locations, reducing heat island and glare. The plant palette is adaptive native and grouped by sun exposure levels and water needs. Small seating areas at each level promote a social community living.

Client: WNMS Communities

Design Architect: Michael W. Folonis Architects

Executive Architect: Studio T Square