After watching and watching this thing go up for the last two years, Kanner Architects-designed new apartment complex on Venice and Superior is nearly finished. Those numbers on the exterior--which designate the address of the building--is a design choice we might have skipped, but the architecture firm and landscape architect Dan Weeden deserve a lot of praise for helping transform this stretch of Venice Boulevard. If you don't know this area of Lincoln and Venice boulevards, think...uninhabitable! Wide streets, traffic, little to no landscaping. Over all, developer Gilly Rojany's criteria was two-fold, according to project architect Damian Lemons. "He wanted to make the scale of [the building] very pedestrian, but his idea was also to make it very attractive for his tenants," he says.
Courtesy of the web site for 1007 Venice, that Kanner Architects'-designed rental project on Venice Boulevard, some photos. And here are rental prices: One-bedrooms measuring 840 square feet are going for $1,995. Two-bedrooms measuring 1,337 square feet* (with a 400 square foot balconies) are going for $3,400. Floor plans here.· 1107 Venice [Official Site]
· Kanner Architects' Transformation of Venice Boulevard [Curbed LA]
Holy green density, Batman! Continuing with the run of architect Eric Owen Moss news,The Argonaut is reporting that some Venice neighbors are concerned about a proposed Moss-designed project slated for 1020 Venice (the SW corner of Lincoln and Venice boulevards and kitty-corner to Kanner Architect's under-construction apartment project). While this corner has been empty for some time and the Moss project has green features like solar panels (seen on the south side and roof of the building), the Argonaut finds that residents are worried about the project's 65-foot height, which is more than double what is allowed under the Venice Community Specific Plan's height of 30 feet.Although both of these are sort of interesting, I'm glad we moved to Topanga!
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