

Pedro Daniel Santos, the architect of this rehabilitation project, embraced the adventure of preserving the character, beauty, history and brand of the building, adapting it, modernizing it, empowering it to live new stories. Two centuries after being brought up, a new challenge comes to this riverside building that was once a manor house and hosted Municipalized Services. The San Francisco-based developer recently broke ground on Alloy, a 35-story apartment and office complex in the Arts District, and has announced plans another residential high-rise on La Cienega just south of Beverly Hills city limits.With a close relation with the Mondego river, the building rehabilitated by the architecture and engineering office danielmsantos, evokes memories of the belle époque in elegant Figueira da Foz and gives it a new, bolder and irreverent core. While work on Cumulus is coming to a close, Carmel remains active in the City of Los Angeles. Other projects also in the works nearby include Lendlease's new office and housing complex next to La Cienega/Jefferson Station, a proposed 254-unit apartment building at 3200 La Cienega Boulevard, and Kilroy Realty's planned expansion of the Blackwelder office campus to the north. Samitaur, the company behind Wrapper, is also planning a 22-story tower to replace a parking lot farther south. The project is the largest in a growing residential and employment district surrounding La Cienega/Jefferson Station, joining new projects such as Wrapper, a 17-story office complex now rising on the opposite side of Jefferson Boulevard. As of last year, a 1,600-square-foot penthouse was listed for rent at the rate of $17,000 per month.Īerial view of the Cumulus District looking south Hunter Kerhart Architectural Photography The glass-and-steel tower contains a total of 300 studio, one-, and two-bedroom apartments above a parking podium.Ī leasing website for the property lists 451-square-foot studio units starting at $3,527 per month - up from $2,769 per month in July 2021. The most visible element of the Cumulus project is Arq, a 31-story, 320-foot-tall building which now ranks as the tallest building in Los Angeles city limits to the south of the I-10 freeway. Just over half of that ground floor space is occupied is occupied by a Whole Foods, which is set to open for business on August 31. In its place, Carmel Partners has built a sprawling mixed-use development that features more than 1,200 apartments and 100,000 square feet of ground-floor retail. Located across the street from the La Cienega/Jefferson Metro station, the project occupies an 11-acre property that was previously the site of a radio broadcast facility. Aerial view of the Cumulus District looking northwest Hunter Kerhart Architectural Photography
