Areas We Serve · West Hollywood
Custom homes and multifamily in a city of its own, where a house and an apartment building are usually neighbours.
Local perspective
West Hollywood is not Los Angeles. It runs its own zoning ordinance, its own planning department and its own review, and none of what applies a block away necessarily applies here. It is also overwhelmingly multifamily: of roughly 1,250 acres, around 417 are zoned for medium and high density housing, which is why a single-family lot here usually has an apartment building on at least one side of it.
On top of the base zoning, several neighbourhoods carry overlay districts with their own design standards, so two lots in the same zone can face different rules about what the street is allowed to see. That is the reason the work here runs across both building types. The studio designs houses squeezed between apartment buildings and the apartment buildings themselves, and the constraints that shape one are the constraints that shaped the other.
Relevant experience
The right scope follows the property and ambition. These paths show the most relevant starting points.
Work in West Hollywood
Houses and apartment buildings in West Hollywood itself, named by street or by project rather than by address.
Sweetzer ResidencesWest Hollywood · Multifamily
Huntley ResidencesWest Hollywood · Multifamily
Spaulding ResidencesWest Hollywood · Multifamily
ShorehamWest Hollywood · Custom home
San VicenteWest Hollywood · Custom home
RosewoodWest Hollywood · Custom home
West KnollWest Hollywood · Custom home
Sierra AltaWest Hollywood · Custom home
AshcroftWest Hollywood · Custom home
La Jolla NorthWest Hollywood · Custom home
Sweetzer CourtWest Hollywood · Multifamily, proposed
West Knoll GardenWest Hollywood · Multifamily, proposed
San Vicente ResidencesWest Hollywood · Multifamily, approved
San Vicente TerracesWest Hollywood · Multifamily, proposed
Hayworth TerracesWest Hollywood · Multifamily, proposed
Fountain CurveWest Hollywood · Multifamily, proposedTwenty-three projects sit in West Hollywood, houses and apartment buildings alike, on San Vicente, Sierra Alta, La Jolla, Sweetzer, Hayworth, Fountain, Knoll, Rosewood, Shoreham, Huntley, Orange Grove, Westbourne and Spaulding.
How we work
Apel Design can begin with a site, an existing building, a feasibility question or a clear creative ambition. The team brings together architectural design, planning and entitlement experience, interiors, consultant coordination, preconstruction and field knowledge according to the needs of the project.
Architecture is performed in association with Michael B. Maclaren, AIA. Licensed construction is provided by Creative New Dimensions Inc, CA General Building Contractor, Class B, CSLB #1056632, in conjunction with Apel Design for Design-Build.
Questions
No. West Hollywood is a separate city with its own zoning ordinance, its own planning department and its own review. Setbacks, height, parking and what the street is allowed to see are decided here, not by the county or by Los Angeles.
Several neighbourhoods carry design standards layered on top of the base zoning, so two lots in the same zone can face different requirements. Whether one applies to a given parcel is worth establishing before a design begins, because it usually governs what the front of the building can do.
Architectural services are performed in association with Michael B. Maclaren, AIA.
Licensed construction is provided by Creative New Dimensions Inc, CA General Building Contractor, Class B, CSLB #1056632, in conjunction with Apel Design for Design-Build.
