A compact residential project along La Cienega Boulevard in West Hollywood is nearing completion, distinguished by a stacked form that responds directly to the site’s slope. Located at 1136–1142 North La Cienega Boulevard, the building occupies a narrow parcel between Santa Monica Boulevard and the Sunset Strip, where changes in elevation shape both the street edge and the project’s massing.
The five-story structure contains 23 apartments arranged above two levels of underground parking. Rather than centering the building around a private interior courtyard, the residential volume is shifted to one side of the lot, allowing units to orient outward toward the public realm. This strategy places living spaces along the edge of the site, where they overlook adjacent open space and the descending grade of La Cienega Boulevard.
LOHA La Cienega West Hollywood via LOHA
Architectural plans prepared by LOHA present the building as a series of stepped volumes that incrementally rise with the street. Upper floors project outward in a staggered pattern, producing cantilevered terraces and a layered profile that mirrors the boulevard’s incline rather than masking it behind a uniform façade.
When the project received approvals from the West Hollywood Planning Commission in 2017, four of the apartments were designated as affordable housing. Vehicle parking is accommodated entirely below grade, allowing the ground plane to remain focused on pedestrian circulation and building access rather than driveways or surface stalls.
County property records list the site owner as 1136/1142 La Cienega, LLC. The project is located several blocks north of Santa Monica Boulevard, within an area that has seen a gradual introduction of similarly scaled apartment buildings replacing older low-intensity uses.
Once complete, the La Cienega Boulevard development will add a small number of residences through a form-driven approach, using terracing and cantilevering to adapt a mid-rise building to a constrained, sloping site without relying on inward-facing open space.
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