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Dec 18, 2023 · The project idea originated decades ago, with Eric Owen Moss Architects working to change the zoning in the area to allow for the (W)rapper to be built. "When we started the project in 1997, the ...
Location. Los Angeles, California. Program. Office. Size. 183,000 gross square feet, 235' tall. Dates. 1997-2023. Construction Systems. Built-up steel plate band exoskeleton with exposed cementitious fire proofing, wide flange girder floor framing with exposed metal deck at perimeter, steel plate shear walls (SPSW) at core, triple pendulum base isolated structure, aluminum window wall glazing ...
May 9, 2023 · The project has been in development for decades. The wraps were clad with fireproof cementitious plaster grey in colour. An external staircase made from the same materials zigzags up one side of ...
May 25, 2023 · The project, which is now officially complete more than a half-year after our tour inside, occupies a property located at 5790 W. Jefferson Boulevard - a short walk west of Metro's La Cienega/Jefferson Station. Developed by Frederick and Laurie Samitaur Smith, the 16-story tower features approximately 180,000 square feet of space across 16 ...
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(W)rapper’s design grew out of a 1998 installation called “Dancing Bleachers,” which Moss’s firm completed at the Peter Eisenman–designed Wexner Center in Columbus, Ohio, responding to that building’s omnipresent square grids by employing a series of grids based, in contrast, on curves. So the new tower, which first took shape the same year, became...
When you first look up from the corner of Jefferson and National Boulevards, the gray tower shoots up from its relatively flat surroundings like a launch pad crossed with a gargantuan tree crossed with an ancient ruin. Its mélange of rough, two-coat plaster frontage, tinted and gridded window wall system, and arching structural steel bands (each is...
Because the building’s structural elements are located along the exterior, and the elevator core is shifted to the south, massive interior spaces on each floor are almost completely open, with no internal columns or drop ceilings. Add to that a combination of slightly warped walls and wraparound views and one gets the impression of floating in a ne...
The construction of the 17-storey (W)rapper office tower in Los Angeles has been completed by Eric Owen Moss Architects. This comes approximately 6 years since the implementation of the project began. The project, which is part of a 35-year regeneration plan for a former industrial and manufacturing zone between Central Los Angeles and Culver ...
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Sep 14, 2022 · Earlier this week, Gabriel Brown of JLL offered photographer Hunter Kerhart took a look inside of Wrapper, the Eric Owen Moss -designed office tower now under construction at 5790 W. Jefferson Boulevard. The project, which has been in the works for more than two decades, now looms high above nearby La Cienega/Jefferson Station, and is the most ...
