London- and Los Angeles-based architects Hawkins\Brown Architects have unveiled plans for 1000 Seward, a fanciful 10-story office complex in Los Angeles's Hollywood Studio District. 

The mid-rise, mixed-use tower, Urbanize.LA reports, is being developed by The Post Group and Plus Development, and aims to bring 136,000 square feet of office space and 14,400 square feet of ground-floor retail and amenity spaces to the project site. 

A rendering for the project depicts a variegated, stepped building articulated in a variety of commercial styles, with lower levels featuring glass storefronts topped by dark metal panel cladding-wrapped offices. This portion of the building features a rooftop terrace that is overlooked by a larger three-story volume marked by expressed diagonal trusses and glass curtainwalls. Higher up, another rooftop terrace is overlooked by a third office block also wrapped in dark paneling. The two upper-level sections are cantilevered on one side above a monumental staircase populated with trees. 

The complex is the latest in a growing list of formally variable office projects taking shape across Los Angeles that includes the Arts District Soho Warehouse development by Studio One Eleven, the C3 office tower by Gensler in Culver City, and and SelgasCano's Second Home complex in Hollywood, among others.