Commercial Architecture and Interior Design | Hotel/Hospitality | Renovation/Addition
Beverly Hills, California
Ongoing renovation in phases, 2009 – 2017, 2018, 2022
PUBLICATION
The New York Times - 03/30/08
Los Angeles Times - 03/02/08
Los Angeles Times - 01/31/08
Vanity Fair - 11/06/07
Los Angeles Times - 07/19/07
Guardian UK Project: Thompson Beverly Hills Hotel - 10/03/09
Causal Living Magazine - 05/01/09
944 Magazine - 03/18/08
Project Description
The project called for completely renovating the interior and exterior of the 92,000 SF Sixty Beverly Hills Hotel and restaurant and adding two new outdoor levels. By deconstructing the ca.1960s building to its brutalist concrete and plaster shell, a new third-floor parking level provides a visual void/dividing line that reveals the hierarchical order of spaces: The restaurant, the business center and other public spaces anchor the building to the street while guest rooms inhabit a five-story “floating box” above the third-floor void. A new rooftop bar and lounge on one level and an upper deck pool and cabana on the other complete the transformation that blends the sophisticated cool of late ‘70s/’80s architecture with the casual chic of California modernism. The only one of its kind, the rooftop is completely surrounded by 12 feet high frameless glass for panoramic views of downtown LA and the Hollywood Hills.
Credits
Douglas Pierson, pod architecture + design and as partner with (fer) studio, Jennifer Kim (2008), Elmer Barco (2016), Linda Fu (2016)
Photography: Skott Snider, pod a+d