Pasadena-based studio Hopson Rodstrom Design (H/RD), designed the structure with a sawtooth roof on top of a black-clad apartment building with an interior courtyard, "embracing" the plot that the higher-scale zoning allows along these thoroughfares, which are generally occupied with low-lying structures.
"Since The Jagger began design and construction, another 10 or so projects have sprung up on that same stretch of boulevard."
H/RD.
The seven-story volume has a primary envelope, a massing clad in black-painted plaster with many long windows spread on it, (The window pattern is based on the maximum allowable percentage of opening along the exterior, broken up into a staggered, offset, and repeated pattern around the middle levels of the building). Besides, the complex has a ground-level podium (with retail and restaurant components) clad in green-painted concrete interspersed with steel gates.
The Jagger by Hopson Rodstrom Design. Photograph by Here and Now Agency.
Description of project by Hopson Rodstrom Design
On a rapidly changing West Los Angeles thoroughfare, this 74 unit mixed-use apartment building carves a deep courtyard oasis into a bold and striking outline. Wrapped in a monolithic and relentless perforated pattern of windows and topped with warehouse-inspired sawtooth roof, the building seeks to embrace the scale of Transit-Oriented Community zoning along major boulevards, while maintaining a human-scaled sidewalk presence, a variety of common open spaces at multiple levels, and an active and vibrant play of circulation and life both communal and individual.
