This 13-story Renaissance Revival-style building was designed by master architects Alexander Curlett and Claud Beelman and completed in 1926. Now known as the Proper Hotel DTLA, the building is owned by the KOR Group and Alma Development, which, as part of Proper Hospitality, put our architects together with interior designer Kelly Wearstler. Together, we're overseeing the building's conversion to a 115,000 sf, 148-room hotel.

At the original pool facility on the 7th floor, we are creating a 2,500 sf guest suite, incorporating the full-size original pool directly into the living room of the hotel guest room. In a double-height former basketball court, we're creating a 1,300 sf guest suite with a screening room. At the multi-level rooftop, we're designing dynamic spaces for a restaurant/bar and spa, mixing cozy corners with expansive views, especially northward up the Broadway corridor. For the building's exterior, we are restoring the original steel storefronts, providing new facade lighting to illuminate the original terra cotta details, rehabilitating the original blade sign, and building a new open panel roof sign per the new Broadway Sign Ordinance (which we also helped to write).