The Holly Hunt showroom in Los Angeles is housed within a 1940’s Los Angeles corner warehouse building. The cast-in-place concrete structure—an industrial shell, framed on a 20-foot structural bay—houses the new program. The showroom is organized around two new ‘villas’ that combine contrasting urban histories of Southern California: those of the industrial landscape of factories and studio backlots and the elegance of Hollywood residential estates.

The existing warehouse structure, which houses the new villas clad in stone, plaster, and metal, is left as a framework of as-found archaeology. This raw concrete shell frames a voluminous daylit interior street around the villas, while all but one of the existing structural columns are enveloped by the villa interiors.