“This project has the most distinguished architecture of any recent mixed-use project in Los Angeles, creating a lively streetscape through the expression of varying unit types.”     
                        –  Award jury comments, Westside Urban Forum, 2005

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The Hancock Mixed-Use project illustrates the value of an interactive community process involving a public-private partnership that provides business-oriented parking, affordable and market-rate housing, in a configuration that strengthens street and neighborhood. For a corner site originally owned by the City of West Hollywood, Koning Eizenberg Architecture worked closely with its developer client (CIM Group) and city staff, through an option-based consensus-building process, to develop, first, a program, and then a design for this mixed-use project.

The design objectives emerged, in large part, from the challenges of the site and the program. We began with the goal to make “good units” and “good street” which appropriately transitioned from busy Santa Monica Boulevard into the quieter residential zone to the north. The design sought to integrate an irregular, steeply sloping site and a complex program – condos, affordable rental housing, retail, parking (both public and residential, with their required separation) – into a cohesive but differentiated whole. The design of residential units was also informed by a desire to use sustainable design strategies to generate the personality of the building.

The project encompasses 31 condo units, seven affordable rentals, 11,402 square feet of street-level retail, and 217 parking spaces, including 90 public spaces. Schematic design began in 2004, with start of construction by early 2006 and completion in 2007.

Award
2005 Westside Prize, Honor Award Mixed-Use
In-Process