NeueHouse Venice Beach is a private workspace for the Westside creative community, which offers open and private work spaces, dining options and elevated cultural programming. Having previously executed the 20,000 square foot buildout for NeueHouse’s location within the historic Bradbury Building, as well as ongoing interventions at their Hollywood location, we are pleased to continue our partnership with a company who shares our commitment to fostering community and cultural innovation.
The project is composed of two neighboring, unreinforced masonry buildings with a shared party wall, which was opened up to create a single 17,000 square foot structure. Programs include private studios, open workstations interspersed with lounge settings, and specialty programs such as an art gallery, broadcast room, and wellness room. LMA helped orchestrate a complete seismic retrofit, taking great care to preserve the character of the 100-year-old structure.
Done in collaboration with acclaimed interior design studio, Design Agency, inspiration was drawn from the urban coastal setting and Southern California’s history as an epicenter of modernism. The project’s warm palette includes mossy greens and gold tones, with organic materials and locally crafted custom furniture rich with texture. The centerpiece of the second-floor restaurant space is a large half-round bar and vaulted skylight. The bar is minutely detailed with marble countertops and white oak casework while the skylight creates a vast opening within the moody space, drawing the impressive building structure into the remarkably elegant finish.
Large ground floor windows take up almost the entire street-facing façade allowing ample, filtered light into the reception area. Retrofitted skylights and clerestory windows in the coworking areas bring controlled natural light deep into the space. A large folding glass garage door opens the gallery to the sidewalk, a gesture which extends cultural programming to the street and creates a more dynamic and inviting relationship with the block. The flow between indoor and outdoor space continues on the rooftop patio, with NeueHouse’s in-house food and beverage program ‘Reunion.’
NeueHouse Venice Beach was winner of Interior Design Magazine’s Best of Year Awards in the Co-Working Office category, 2023, and the IIDA SoCal Calibre Awards in the Transformation category, 2024.
Team:
Architects: Loescher Meachem Architects
Interior Designers: DesignAgency
Acoustics: Newson Brown Acoustics
MEP: AMA GROUP ASSOCIATED ARCHITECTS
Structural Engineers: Charles Tan & Associates
Photographer: Yoshihiro Makino
