2012 AIA|LA Design Award (Merit)

This 3000 square foot gallery for Chelsea gallery owner Matthew Marks, with a facade embellished with an Ellsworth Kelly sculpture, was conceived as a monolithic, windowless, 70 feet long, 40 feet wide, 32 feet high, white stucco box. Its unyielding massing is intended to provide a distinct transition from the highly trafficked commercial strip along Santa Monica Boulevard to the residential district to its south, an area characterized by a series of mid-century two to five story stucco apartment buildings.

West Hollywood, California. 2011
Design Architect: ZELLNERPLUS

Project Team:
Ariel Claudet
Ingrid Dennert
Kurt V. Franz
Nathan Moore
Darin Vieria
Seth Weiner

Peter Zellner