HawkinsBrown Architects to bring mid-rise, mixed-use tower to Hollywood

London- and Los Angeles-based architects HawkinsBrown Architects have unveiled plans for 1000 Seward, a fanciful 10-story office complex in Los Angeles's Hollywood Studio District. 

The mid-rise, mixed-use tower, Urbanize.LA reports, is being developed by The Post Group and Plus Development, and aims to bring 136,000 square feet of office space and 14,400 square feet of ground-floor retail and amenity spaces to the project site. 

A rendering for the project depicts a variegated, stepped building articulated in a variety of commercial styles, with lower levels featuring glass storefronts topped by dark metal panel cladding-wrapped offices. This portion of the building features a rooftop terrace that is overlooked by a larger three-story volume marked by expressed diagonal trusses and glass curtainwalls. Higher up, another rooftop terrace is overlooked by a third office block also wrapped in dark paneling. The two upper-level sections are cantilevered on one side above a monumental s...