Project Update: AXIS’ North Hollywood Hotel Project Receives Unanimous City Council Approval

March 25, 2023

Los Angeles architects AXIS adds to its Los Angeles and North Hollywood hotel design portfolio.

AXIS is proud to announce that our North Hollywood Hotel Project has received City Council approval. More impressively, the Los Angeles City Planning Commission’s approval for the project was unanimous, and was provided without any substantive requests for changes to the design – a testament to the high quality project design and its effectiveness integrating the building into the unique surrounding NoHo Arts District.

A rendering of the unique façade of the AXIS-designed North Hollywood Hotel, featuring the project’s unique fenestration program, inviting first floor retail spaces, and destination rooftop patio.

 

A mixed-use hotel and retail development on behalf of Napa Industries, LLC. announced on our blog last year, AXIS’ Los Angeles studio’s design of the yet-to-be-flagged hotel in North Hollywood incorporates a significant seven-story design that will add over 9,000 square feet of ground floor retail and restaurant space to NoHo’s increasingly trendy Arts District along the Lankershim thoroughfare.

 

A rendering of the view from Lankershim Boulevard of the recently unanimously approved North Hollywood Hotel, designed by AXIS’ Los Angeles architect studio.

 

A technically challenging architectural project featuring an L-shaped footprint to make the most of three irregularly-shaped and previously underutilized lots, AXIS’ design for the property will feature 171 guestrooms atop two floors of mixed-use commercial space. From the exterior, the commercial space will be unmistakably delineated through the use of two-story glass façades rising from the sidewalk up to the base of the third floor. These glass-enclosed spaces will feature at least one gallery, and seek to connect the new building’s interior spaces with the surrounding arts community. For the hotel on the floors above, a unique fenestration program will see an organized yet whimsical use of windows to create an engaging texture to the building. Crowning the building, and likely to become a destination unto itself, a rooftop pool and deck will add an irresistible amenity to the hotel’s offering.

Watch our blog and social channels for more imagery as this project develops.

This article was published in our January/February 2023 edition of The Praxis.