Portfolio
Commercial
1640 14th Street
This 4-story mixed-use building in Santa Monica integrates ground-level retail and restaurant spaces with three floors of creative office environments, designed to foster a vibrant and collaborative community. 1640 14th Street demonstrates a commitment to sustainability, featuring rooftop solar panels, natural ventilation, energy efficient lighting, regionally sourced materials, and expanded EV charging stations. These modern amenities ensure environmental responsibility while enhancing the overall tenant experience.
AdventurePlex at Marine
Located on the Beach Cities Health District campus, the District’s objective was to build a facility where families can play, learn and grow. The 20,000 SF steel & masonry facility includes a 2-story youth fitness center designed to enable non-stop activities in a safe, structured environment. It contains a gymnasium, arts and crafts rooms, multi-activity studio, administrative offices and a multi-purpose room. The outdoor playground features rock climbing walls and a rope course. Colored concrete and architecturally-designed ceilings with hanging fabrics were used to create the playful interior environment.
West End
This project transforms a 250,000 SF former department store into a dazzling mixed-use office/ retail complex. It features a new glass curtain wall and an open, friendly urban environment with a central courtyard that invites pedestrian access from Pico Boulevard. Also included are seismic upgrades, new landscape and site utilities. The project transforms an existing big box store into an open, pedestrian friendly urban environment. The design splits the building into two halves, creating a central courtyard that connects Pico Boulevard to the back side of the building, and features open lobbies along the courtyard. The open center of the project allows for public flow into the courtyard from Pico Boulevard and welcomes in more life from the neighborhood.
Palos Verdes Golf Club
Modernizing and expanding this Mediterranean-style clubhouse, built in 1924, included restoring consistency of the original architectural intent as the building exterior was unified to convey its elegant historic beauty. This historic preservation, renovation and expansion project took place while the Club remained fully operational. The 18,000 SF addition accommodates a 300-seat dining room, an 8,600 SF Grand Banquet Hall, new commercial kitchen, formal lobby and a subterranean delivery area. The restrooms were all modernized and brought up to ADA compliance, new HVAC systems were installed and mechanical rooms were updated.
Apollo at Rosecrans
Addressing our client’s desire to attract creative office tenants, this extensive renovation project repositioned 5 existing vacant buildings into an attractive, uniform and contemporary campus. Originally concrete tilt-ups with 2 rooftop parking levels, we removed large sections of the structure to create a welcoming courtyard. Extensive structural renovation work was performed to remove building columns and create open floor plans. The renovation of other ‘high impact’ spaces, such as exterior balconies, landscaped amenity spaces and lobbies, gives the owner a high value for their investment. New building entries feature dynamic canopies that integrate a brand identity and welcome people as they arrive. Headquarters to numerous name brand companies, the campus offers a sustainable, environmentally engaging and active environment that features bike share, dog runs, social and athletic amenities (bocci, basketball, volleyball, running path), exterior meeting spaces and expansive pedestrian circulation.
Pacific Corporate Towers
Del Amo’s major exterior and interior renovations of three 20-story towers helped transform this nondescript, 1980’s office park into a modern office campus that was rebranded as PCT. Now attractive to creative and tech tenants, the renovation included partial demolition of the existing site, public spaces enhancements, revisions to existing elevator tower, stairs, guardrails, select interior and exterior finish upgrades, the addition of a 12-foot fireplace, new sliding glass partitions and installation of new mechanical, plumbing, fire protection, electrical systems. Nearly all landscaping was replaced to create an inviting, pedestrian-friendly space, including the addition of new wooden decks, outdoor seating and fire pit.
ROW DTLA
Located in LA’s hip Arts District, the ROW DTLA Buildings 2 & 3 Project transformed several large warehouse and industrial buildings constructed between 1917 and 1923 at the historic LA Terminal Market into creative office, retail and food service uses. This two-phase adaptive reuse & extensive renovation project included moderate historical renovation, seismic retrofit, new building core and lobby areas, and the replacement of the stairs, elevators, HVAC, plumbing and electrical systems for both buildings. Building 3 was one of the first projects to be completed under the new City of LA seismic retrofit ordinance for non-ductile concrete structures. Building 2 is a 6 story, 420,000 SF warehouse style building with basement parking. Building 3 is a 6 story, 420,000 SF warehouse style building with fully occupied basement. Rooftop decks were added to Building 2 to accommodate event space for future office or restaurant tenants. New catwalks built from material salvaged from the demolition of the existing loading docks serve as the entrances to the building. Building 3 included structural upgrades throughout the entire building, major core and shell work, and infrastructure at the basement and ground floors to accommodate a future bakery, brewery, market, coffee lab and several restaurants.
Plaza Diamond Bar
This type V-N, fully sprinklered, 2-story commercial building features retail space below and office space above. It was designed to achieve a modern look, yet blend in with the existing glass and wood siding structures on the site. Cementitious exterior siding with glass storefront extends around the entire perimeter at the upper and lower levels, created a floating effect for the facade siding.
3rd Street Cityview
Located at 8231-8237 Third Street, Los Angeles, we renovated the existing structure to accommodate high end retail and added a two-level parking structure above. The resulting City View Retail Center symbolizes the LA skyline. Poured concrete makes up most of the structure, accented by a sculptural facade detail. Sheer perforated metal panels are framed in bright orange and lit with blue LEDs to emulate the colors of a sunset. Their geometric shapes and linear layout are akin to the cityscape horizon.
4975 Sunset
This unique adaptive reuse project transformed religious space into creative office space, with two stories above grade and a basement. The basement is primarily used for systems/mechanical space, while the main floor boasts soaring ceilings, a water feature, glass conference rooms, large kitchen, patio meeting area and extensive lighting upgrades. The second floor has an open mezzanine and an executive suite. Featured are many architectural elements, including a marble wall, dramatic accent lighting, an arched trellis, and herringbone parquet wood flooring.
La Brea
This project was the redevelopment and adaptive re-use of the historic Continental Graphics building in Los Angeles into a new creative collective called District La Brea. The project featured eleven buildings encompassing 85,000 square feet and focused on revitalizing the historic 1930’s era compound into a new shopping destination. Several of the building spaces were renovated for office and retail use.
The Press
Former home to a Los Angeles Times Printing Press facility, this project is the conversion of the existing 288,000 SF warehouse building and the addition of a new 40,000 SF building into a creative office, retail, and co-working campus. Features include a soaring 50-foot atrium, former loading docks turned into over-sized porches, a new contemporary boutique food hall, expansive windows that fill the space with light, dining and casual assembly gardens, and meandering paths for pedestrian exploration. The campus will incorporate much of the original press elements and preserve the existing structure while creating a unique, open and modern environment.
Platform
This project is located in what was once an abandoned and blighted section of Culver City and, once completed, significantly contributed to the area’s renaissance. Adjacent to a new LA Metro line station, Del Amo artfully renovated the abandoned block of buildings in Culver City’s Hayden Tract neighborhood, transforming it into a unique collection of over 38,000 SF of retail space, 42,000 SF of office and multiple restaurant spaces, which span across six buildings and wrap around a central courtyard. Also included was a 312 space parking structure that is accentuated with a commissioned mural on the exterior wall by popular artist Jen Stark.