2023 Southern California Best Projects
Award of Merit - Small Project: Twitch LAX
Photo by Jason O'Rear
Twitch LAX
Los Angeles
Award of Merit
Submitted by: HITT Contracting
Owner: Twitch
Lead Design Firm: Gensler
General Contractor: HITT Contracting Inc.
MEP Engineer: AMA Group
Construction Manager: Summit Construction Management
Subcontractors: ACCO Engineered Systems; Advance Fire Protection; Alert Insulation; Cal Coast Commercial Flooring; ComNet Communications; Convergint; GPS Paint and Wallcovering; Mega Plastering Systems; New Century Door; Phillips Draperies; Renkow Mechanical; SASCO; Stumbaugh and Associates; Taber Co.; Tecno International; TriMark
Located in the Downtown Los Angeles Arts District, a one-of-a-kind tenant improvement project marks the new Southern California headquarters for this creative client. With more than 65% of the space dedicated to nontraditional office space, this location is Twitch’s first fully free address office—a workspace with no assigned seats.
Completed in May 2022, the space is centered around a large streaming desk and features LED broadcast lighting, a condenser microphone, multiple cameras, specialized acoustic treatment and high-tech monitors and equipment that required novel installation tactics so the space could withstand a daily virtual audience of more than 12 million people.
OpenSpace, a 360° video capture software, allowed the team to catalog interactive panoramas from different positions around the project and at different durations of the schedule. The platform provided stakeholders with a comprehensive suite of tools to immerse themselves into the project no matter their physical location.
With neighbors above and below the construction floor, the project team had to work around specific construction hours and noise constraints to minimize disruptions. Creating a phasing plan ensured a successful occupied build-out.
The contractor was heavily involved throughout the design progression and preconstruction phase. Although the team was not being able to core into the post-tension slab or touch the post tension cables, the contractor used X-ray scanning and partnered with structural engineers to receive final approval for coring locations.
