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Civic Center Drive represents the transformation of a 30,000 sf
one-story brick warehouse adjacent to the Beverly Hills Civic Center,
into creative office space. A new steel structural frame, designed
to retain existing wood trusses, was introduced to create a new
mezzanine and rooftop parking deck, while simultaneously providing
seismic reinforcement for the original walls.
The east and north façades were replaced with fully-glazed
walls, providing ample light and a view of the new ramp that rises
through the structure to roof-top parking. The north glazed wall
was set back to provide an entry court, a translucent stair/elevator
tower, and a suspended steel and concrete bridge connecting to the
mezzanine entrance.
The west and south facades, retained from the existing masonry building,
have a rhythm of large punched openings down their length, as well
as a continuous clerestory above. Three linear skylights in the
roof deck allow direct sunlight to penetrate the center of the building,
reaching the ground floor at midday.
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