Hauser & Wirth West Hollywood
Los Angeles, CA
Hauser & Wirth’s newest location in Los Angeles was originally built in 1931 as an automobile sales showroom. The project transforms 11,000 square feet into a contemporary art gallery with high ceilings and spacious interiors. Large storefront windows highlight the works on view enhancing transparency and welcoming the community. The preserved white stucco façade and red tile roofing typify the Spanish Colonial Revival architecture style of Hollywood’s Golden Age. To date, the project is the only commercial gallery on the West Coast to have earned LEED Platinum certification.
The new configuration comprises two private showrooms, offices, a library, a kitchen, and 6,000 square foot exhibition space framed by exposed wood bow trusses and newly polished concrete floors.
State-of-the-art climate control system and natural daylight, from refurbished and new skylights, make the gallery uniquely sustainable. The project incorporates environmentally conscious strategies comprising 100% renewable building energy consumption, 86% construction waste diverted from landfill, 74% of regularly occupied spaces are naturally daylit, 48% water use reduction, 45% energy use reduction and increased indoor ventilation with CO2 monitoring.
Alongside Hauser & Wirth’s first West Coast gallery in Downtown Los Angeles, also designed by Selldorf Architects, the West Hollywood site marks the gallery’s second location.
(Photography credits: Elon Schoenholz Photography and Keith Lubow)
