Twin Springs' Design Space Open to the Trade
Los Angeles’ Twin Springs Building, at 433 S. Spring St., has opened its doors to design-industry professionals and companies for leasing opportunities.
The 370,000-square-foot, 11-story Art Deco building, owned by fashion-industry executive Henri Levi, is targeting apparel designers and other professionals for tenancy, including architects, graphic artists, textile designers and the like.
Levi said the open floor plan, which includes 12- to 25-foot ceilings, suits companies that need space for extensive design stations and workspaces.
“It is appropriate that since the building was once known as The Design Center, and currently is home to five design studios, we should offer it to be leased as such to creative businesses that like wide open spaces.”
The building recently was the site of the P.KaBu series of fashion shows during Los Angeles Fashion Week and is regularly used for trade shows as well as a location for film shoots. The building has a long history of uses in Los Angeles. At one time, it was a bank, and it also served as a temporary home to the Los Angeles Central Library after a fire damaged the original library on Fifth Street. Levi purchased the building about two years ago from Hertz Investment Group, previous owner of the California Market Center. Designed by John and Donald Parkinson in the 1920s, the building won the AIA Honor Award in 1930 for its Zigzag Moderne construction, a style of Art Deco architecture that employs geometric and angular patterns. Among its prominent features are exterior tile murals designed by New York artist Hugo Ballin and a lobby decorated with marble, bronze and gold leaf by Herman Sachs, the Romanian-born artist best known for his porte-cochere ceiling at Bullocks Wilshire in Los Angeles.
For leasing information, call (213) 625-1100. —Robert McAllister
