950 E Third Street, LA

Location: Los Angeles, CA
Developer: Fairfield Residential Company LLC
Completion: June 2019

Located a short distance from downtown is the Arts District of Los Angeles, an artist enclave in what was formerly the industrial center of the City. The 5.6 acre site stretches from E 3rd Street in the North to Traction Avenue in the South, and is directly adjacent to Sci-Arc, the Southern California Institute of Architecture. The 472 live/work development is broken into five distinct buildings over an underground parking structure.

The design is intentionally varied in expression from one end of the site to the other. On 3rd Street the building is reminiscent of the neighboring warehouses with the notable exception of traditional brick being replaced with corrugated Corten metal. Facing Sci-Arc on the East, the façade is more sculptural in nature with windows carved into deep recesses of varying dimensions. At the Southern end of the project where the site narrows the project is book-ended with a small guitar-pick shaped building wrapped in zinc shingles. Like the neighborhood itself, the project is intended to be diverse and multi-faced, defying categorization.


Landscape Architect: Gillespie Moody Patterson, Inc.
Contractor: Milender White Construction Company
Photographer: Cesar Rubio

Awards + Publications
The Real Deal - Los Angeles Real Estate News, therealdeal.com/la/2017/12/05/new-renderings-show-215m-aliso-project-in-arts-district/, “New renderings show $215M Aliso project in Arts District”. Aliso, Los Angeles, CA
URBANIZE.LA - Los Angeles Real Estate News, https://urbanize.la/post/construction-wraps-aliso-arts-district, “Construction Wraps Up at The Aliso in the Arts District”. Aliso, Los Angeles, CA

YOUTUBE - "Aliso Apartments Now Open in Downtown Los Angeles" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8MBGQ6fKnw