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Best Western Hollywood Hills Hotel City
West Hollywood, CA
Program
44,000 sq. ft., 86 room hotel and café (no new area added) on .92 acre site
Client
Best Western Hollywood Hills Hotel
Completion
2011
Awards
2011 AIA Housing Award 2010 Woodworks Award 2010 Residential Architect Merit Award 2010 AIACC Merit for Architecture 2009 International Design Merit Award 2005 Westside Prize Honor Award Mixed-Use
This hotel remodel is not for purists but presents a strategy for celebrating and intensifying the vitality of messy urbanism on a budget. In this case, that means accepting a gritty location, two imperfect, mismatched buildings and a glamorized context. The design approach dissolves the line between graphics and architecture to cost effectively create a fitting identity for its location below the “Hollywood” sign and next to the freeway. Work included a number of strategic components from mundane maintenance and paving, to a Klieg light mural and coordinated awnings that provide shade and also conceal window AC units. Exterior painting includes a striped beach towel inspired pattern for the renewed pool court. Interior work comprises new offices with lobby and reception spaces featuring the owner’s Hollywood photo memorabilia. A new canopy along with reconfigured parking, landscaping, lighting and signage reorients the main entry away from a busy thoroughfare to a tree lined parking court and guest drop off area.