Alloy & the NOW Win Decorative Concrete Council Awards
The NOW and Alloy Santa Fe projects won First Place in the Vertical Facades and Architectural Cast-in-Place Structures categories respectively. The awards were handed out during the American Society of Concrete Contractors (ASCC) Annual Conference this year in Indianapolis.
the NOW
At the corner of Sunset and La Cienega along the iconic Sunset Strip, Largo poured the concrete at the NOW high-end commercial development on. Heavily decorated with exposed architectural white concrete, the 79,214 square foot building features three levels of below grade parking and four levels of leasable space.
The most striking architectural feature is a large “louvered” effect created around an outdoor space on the second level. Built with a combination of concrete columns and horizontal steel elements, patrons will feel as if they are floating under a wave as they move through the space. All columns in the feature are 1 foot wide and 2 feet 10 inches apart. The first eight columns from the west side of the building taper off from 3 feet 9 inches, 13 feet above the deck, down to 2 feet deep where the column meets the second level deck.
The next 17 columns moving east are stub columns suspended from the perimeter upturn beam at level three. These stub columns shrink in height as they move across the building from left to right, starting at 8 feet tall and ending at 3 feet from the bottom of the beam. Embeds at the top of each column are connected to steel beams with their own unique pattern which span across the space creating an undulating effect.
Alloy Santa Fe
Located on the west end of the 4th Street Bridge, Alloy Santa Fe is the first high-rise structure in LA’s Historic Arts District. The development features a five level commercial building and a 36 level residential tower above six levels of parking and mixed-use, three of which are below grade.
Decorative board-formed, exposed architectural concrete can be found throughout the development. From the main lobby soffit to the residential and office columns, to the sauna and cabanas at the roof deck pool, the finish is prominent throughout. The most striking board-formed features is the amoeba-shaped void in the roof deck referred to as the ‘Oculus.’ Each plank was prepared, sealed and used once for the highest quality finish and then repurposed as toe boards and for other safety measures to reduce waste.
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