Levitated along the edge of the Los Angeles River, One Santa Fe, for which Wil Carson was Project Designer and Hiroshi Tokumaru the Senior Technical Coordinator at Michael Maltzan Architecture, is an icon for and a catalyst of the downtown Arts District’s rapid transformation and continued growth. The project stretches for nearly a quarter mile, its 510,000 SF linear form linking at its northern terminus to adjacent light rail with planned connections to the river to the west and planned mass transit, as well as the adjacent Southern California Institute for Architecture. The 439-unit mixed use complex bridges over a vehicular entry into the heart of the complex, creating a new commercial center inhabited by Amazebowls, another 64North project. Balconies and shared amenity spaces on the upper levels provide connections both to this shared public realm and to exceptional vistas back to the downtown skyline.

“What gives the $165-million project its unusual symbolic power is that it takes the generic stuff of a typical L.A. apartment building — a wood frame in white stucco lifted above a concrete parking deck — and expands it dramatically to urban scale. It points the way to a more inventive, less paint-by-numbers kind of housing.”

C H R I S T O P H E R  H A W T H O R N E ,  L A  T I M E S

R O L E S

Wil Carson, Project Designer
Hiroshi Tokumaru, Senior Technical Coordinator
Michael Maltzan Architecture

P H O T O G R A P H Y

64North & Christopher Norman