One Westside transformed a sizable, abandoned shopping mall into a nearly 600,000 sq-ft, modern office campus. A transformation of this scale required creative thinking to successfully renovate and create a design that was functional for an office space. To transform this three-story shopping mall into a functioning office space with a cohesive indoor-outdoor feel, the team had to perform extensive structural demolition to large sections of the space without impacting the remaining building.
Almost one-third of the third level needed to be demolished to achieve the indoor-outdoor framework. To preserve the remainder of the building, the team utilized selective demolition that required surgically precise cuts into the structure. The construction team spent much time surveying and calculating layout prior to cutting concrete and steel beams, which allowed them to preserve the rest of the existing building.