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Isla Intersections Supportive Housing and Paseo / Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects

Pilar Caballero — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 03:00:00 +0000

In 2018, the City of Los Angeles made available some of its more than 1,700 city-owned parcels to affordable housing developers. Many of these sites are difficult, lying along heavy-traffic corridors or next to freeways. In other instances, the sites are composite parcels that have been left untouched for decades. In LOHA's second collaboration with non-profit developer Holos Communities, this 35,000-square-foot, 54-unit housing project and adjacent paseo repurpose a 19,814-square-foot triangular site, uniting a traffic island and a former railroad right-of-way. Situated near one of the world's busiest freeway interchanges—the meeting of the 110 and 105 freeways—the design makes a challenging location more livable.

Granville1500 Housing / Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects

Hadir Al Koshta — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 16:00:00 +0000

Santa Monica Boulevard, which for some commuters is nothing but an exit from the 405 Freeway, is the last piece of Route 66, “America’s Main Street,” that once spanned from Chicago to the Pacific Ocean. In Los Angeles, the wide stretch of roadway linked downtown, Hollywood, Beverly Hills, and Santa Monica, in a commercial corridor for students of mom-and-pop stores, restaurants, and automobile showrooms -- an archetype of car-centric urban planning. In that stretch which, contrary to reality, seems to have more traffic than residents, is Granville1500.

South E8 House / Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects

Hadir Al Koshta — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 15:00:00 +0000

As one of the fastest-growing cities in the country, Raleigh is experiencing the need for housing densification and is fostering new centers for community growth. Located just down the street from Downtown in a primarily single-residence neighborhood, LOHA’s South E8 brings eight units to a lot that previously had one.

Sycamore953 Office Building / Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects

Andreas Luco — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 16:00:00 +0000

Located amidst concrete factories and production studios, Sycamore953 is a new eight-story creative office building that rises and cantilevers to create an iconic presence in a densifying part of the city.

Sandi Simon Center for Dance at Chapman University / Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects

Paula Pintos — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 03:00:00 +0000

The Sandi Simon Center for Dance is an expansive new education and performing arts center at Chapman University that redefines a former orange packing house. Landmarked by the National Register of Historic Places, LOHA’s adaptive reuse strategy preserves the exterior identity while opening the interior structure with a calculated cut through the original floor, allowing for a reorganization into three levels and forming a new circulation through the space.

Canyon5 / Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects

Paula Pintos — Tue, 09 May 2023 03:00:00 +0000

Conceived by smart growth proponents as a viable solution to Los Angeles' tight housing market, the City of Los Angeles adopted the Small Lot Subdivision Ordinance in 2005. The ordinance aimed to encourage the construction of smaller, more affordable infill housing to target first-time home buyers in an increasingly unaffordable market; simultaneously increasing density while maintaining the residential scale of Los Angeles neighborhoods.

MLK1101 Supportive Housing / Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Los Angeles County is currently home to the nation’s largest homeless population - over 58,000 individuals and counting. LOHA’s design for MLK1101 Supportive Housing transforms a vacant, unimproved lot in South Los Angeles into an uplifting housing community for previously homeless individuals to thrive. The project provides 26-units of permanent, 100% affordable housing to formerly homeless veterans, chronically homeless individuals, and low-income households.

DILLON617 Housing / Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects

Paula Pintos — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 03:00:00 +0000

Los Angeles’ Silver Lake neighborhood has transformed in the past two decades from a sleepy Eastside enclave, to one of the city’s most vibrant creative communities. Yet, the majority of its housing stock has remained unchanged since the 1970s. The residential streets comprise a mix of historic homes and mid-century “missing middle” bungalows, duplexes, and fourplexes, that once accommodated its population of urban dwellers. Today, there is a need for much more density. Not only to keep up with demand but to retain a level of affordability in a housing market that has priced-out the majority of artists and ethnic communities responsible for giving the area its unique flair. A new “missing-middle” housing typology has emerged, one that has expanded in scale and placement to the edges of the neighborhoods, along with commercial corridors and busy thoroughfares (where automotive repair shops and warehouses once stood.) With these changes comes a need to bridge these new missing-middle communities to the neighborhoods and streets that they straddle.

San Vicente935 Housing / Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects

Andreas Luco — Tue, 04 Jun 2019 17:00:00 +0000

This new 7-unit housing project in West Hollywood continues LOHA’s commitment to promoting thoughtful design through an adaptation of the courtyard housing typology. Located on a constrained site on San Vicente Blvd between Santa Monica and Sunset Blvd, this project judiciously reduces its allowable building envelope to maximize open space and provide a large common courtyard. Focused on developing productive new models for added density on small infill sites across the City, this project prioritizes outdoor space, social connectivity, and porosity at the street level.

San Joaquin Villages at the University of California / Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects + Kevin Daly Architects + Skidmore, Owings & Merrill + KieranTimberlake

Daniel Tapia — Wed, 29 May 2019 03:00:00 +0000

When the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), purchased property approximately one mile from its campus core, the university administration had a clear vision for its transformation. A former business park, the site needed to incorporate low- and high-density student and faculty housing, a convenience store, dining, and student life facilities into an integrated complex that connects students to each other and to campus.

Mariposa1038 / Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects

Daniel Tapia — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 17:00:00 +0000

As one of the densest neighborhoods in the country, Los Angeles’ Koreatown is at the forefront of changing modes of contemporary urban living. LOHA’s design for Mariposa1038 plays with this burgeoning area’s density with a pure cube extruded to fit tight on its lot, and then formed to gesture back to the public street and surrounding context. To blur the distinction between the public and private sphere, LOHA pushed the cube inward on each of its sides, creating curves that grant relief from the sidewalk and return portions of the ground plane to the public realm.

LOHA’s Latest Supportive Housing Complex Curbs LA’s Increasing Homelessness

Osman Bari — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 08:00:00 +0000

With ever-increasing rates of chronic and veteran homelessness amongst low-income households, Los Angeles’ pressing demand for affordable social housing is being addressed by Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects, with their design of MLK1101 Supportive Housing, which has just begun construction.

Shulman Home and Studio / Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects

Cristian Aguilar — Sun, 10 Jan 2016 13:00:00 +0000

LOHA’s restoration and modernization applies contemporary measures of performance and design to a historic building, enhancing its continued life as an exceptional family residence.

SL11024 / Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects

Karen Valenzuela — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 11:00:00 +0000

Through its materiality and form, LOHA’s design for the SL11024 student and faculty housing complex seamlessly engages its historically sensitive site and challenging hillside topography and creates a new model for urban development that enriches an academic community.

Cloverdale749 / Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects

Karen Valenzuela — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 01:00:00 +0000

Cloverdale749 is located around the block from the historically significant Miracle Mile hub comprising the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the A+D Architecture and Design Museum, and other noteworthy cultural destinations. Adhering to a strategy to maximize land use and capitalize on zoning, the building’s 10,500 square feet push against floor area and density limitations determined by the lot’s size and location. In essence, this project is a volume that cannot expand further.

Skid Row Housing Trust / Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects

Jonathan Alarcon — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Jovanovic Residence / Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects

Nico Saieh — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Sitting on an aggressively sloping site in the Crestwood Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, the Jovanovic Residence combines a progressive and sustainable solution to an existing structure and addition. Through the utilization of a continuous foil wrap, various program elements including; a new guest suite, significant modifications to the master bedroom, exterior decking, and exterior facade, are synthesized together with a singular cohesive element.

Performance Capture Studio / Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects + Kanner Architects

Nico Saieh — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Designed for an intensely collaborative and creative film production studio, this massive internal project involved transforming two airplane hangars on a former Coast Guard base and converting them into a full production film studio. Reflecting the client’s unique operational flow, the project was conceived around the premise of ‘strange loop’, a term often used in film to describe the movement through interconnected levels, where one finds oneself back where one started. Through the utilization of an adaptable display wall system that encompasses the various departments within a continuous loop, various artistic and production departments are able to engage and collaborate with each other in a non-linear back-n-forth manner.