20th Street Offices

The 20th Street Offices serve as creative working studios for three design firms in Santa Monica, California. Located on a 7,500 square foot lot in one of the United States top ‘green’ cities, they consist of approximately 6,800 sf of studio space at two stories with a mezzanine. Santa Monica earned this ranking with its extensive Green Building Program and public policies. However, the prominence of sustainable initiatives in Santa Monica doesn’t end with policy; an extensive network of environmentally conscious citizens and business owners, of which the architects of the 20th Street Offices are a member, propels it forward.

It is the firm’s desire, along side of its latest trajectories in architectural design and theory, to responsibly lead its fellow citizens, colleagues, and clients in green building initiatives and made no exception when designing their own offices as they pursued a LEED-NC Gold rating.

Status: Completed 2009

Project Type: Commercial; Building Type: New Construction; Size: 5,000 sf

Location: Santa Monica, CA

Partners: Hagy Belzberg, Brock DeSmit, Daniel Rentsch

Project Managers: David Cheung, Carina Bien-Willner, Lauren Zuzack

Project Team: Aaron Leppanen, Andrew Atwood, Barry Gartin, Chris Arntzen, Cory Taylor, Eric Stimmel, Erik Sollom, Manish Desai, Justin Brechtel

Awards:
2011 Green Good Design Award
2009 Green Dot Award - Award Winner
2009 Interior Design magazine- Best of the Year Award
2009 Architectural Foundation of Los Angeles (AFLA) Design/Green Honor Award
2009 Los Angeles Business Council Architecture Award: Commercial Building

Publications:
Designpeakpack: Commercial Space (China), Space Series 2: Workplace (China), Interior Design