AXIS Architecture + Design has completed the Hilton Arcadia Los Angeles. Located along Arcadia’s Huntington Drive, the 173-room, full-service hotel combines the ground-up design of a new six-story hotel tower with the adaptive reuse and conversion of an existing three-story office building.
Serving as both design architect and architect of record, AXIS guided the project from concept through construction.
Developed by VG Properties and constructed by R.D. Olson Construction, the property features a new hotel tower delivering guestrooms, banquet facilities, pre-function event space and guest amenities, while the former office building has been reimagined as a hospitality environment offering additional guestrooms, dining venues, meeting facilities and a rooftop lounge. Together, the two structures comprise more than 153,000 sq. ft. of hospitality space.
Central to AXIS’ vision for the Hilton Arcadia was the opportunity to create an architectural response to one of Southern California’s most recognizable neighboring landmarks, Santa Anita Park, known for its Art Deco and Streamline Moderne architecture. The hotel’s design was inspired by the racetrack’s 1930s grandstand and pavilion structures.
The hotel’s exterior composition is defined by sweeping curves, strong vertical window rhythms and carefully proportioned massing that evokes the architectural character of Santa Anita while maintaining a distinctly modern identity, according to AXIS.
Through careful attention to façade articulation, material selection, scale, proportion and fenestration patterns, AXIS said it “created a cohesive architectural identity that allows the hotel to be perceived as a single development despite its dual-construction origins.”
To learn more about the property’s design from Cory Creath, founding principal, AXIS Architecture + Design, click here.
