During construction of a modernist-style, 500-seat theater to adjoin a preserved and repurposed 1930s U.S. Post Office, the project team was challenged with fitting together the structures, both physically and aesthetically.
Best Projects’ judges say the resulting performing-arts venue and arts-education center in the heart of Beverly Hills has a “monumental presence.” The $51-million effort was part renovation, part new construction and had to seamlessly marry the two.