As one of the first major cross-laminated timber (CLT) office buildings in Los Angeles, 843 N Spring Street embraces biophilic and low carbon office design.

This adaptive reuse of a former low-rise commercial building maintains existing parking while seamlessly weaving office spaces and the outdoors together via open-air circulation spaces, a rooftop deck and balconies. Due to the steep slope of the site, the building is split into two volumes to make room for the tiered vertical garden courtyard at the center. The team performed major structural upgrades within the parking structure, cutting out the slab and upgrading the foundations and columns of the existing building to support the new one.