Site preparations are underway in Los Angeles in advance of the 50-month construction phase that will bring the Foster + Partners-designed One Beverly Hills residential towers to a plot adjacent to the Beverly Hilton and other area hospitality icons.

Gensler is serving as the project’s executive architect while RIOS has been contracted to deliver the landscaped portion of the design, which occupies the total 17.5-acre site that includes another 8.5-acre botanical garden in compliment of each tower’s biophilic terraces. 

The project will be realized at 28- and 31-stories, respectively, making them the tallest design in Beverly Hills since the Bank of America building at 9454 Wilshire Boulevard opened in 1968. According to Urbanize LA, the scheme calls for 255 condominiums, 79 hotel suites, and approximately 30,000-square-feet of commercial space, along with subterranean parking spaces for up to 1,900 vehicles. 

The project will cost approximately $2 billion. A noteworthy absence of any affordable units is atoned for by developer Alagem Capital Group, who will pay a $100 million public benefit fee to the city over eight years. The city council voted 4-1 to approve the project, which replaces a Richard Meier-designed hotel complex proposal that used the same name, in June of 2021.

This is the first major non-retail Foster + Partners project in Los Angeles County. The firm recently opened a West Coast operation in Venice in the Fall of 2022 and will begin work soon on the retrofit and redevelopment of the Transamerica Center in San Francisco for SHVO.