The project was designed by Madrid-based architecture firm Selgascano, with Downtown LA-based Omgivning acting as executive architect for the project.
Second Home campus in East Hollywood, Los Angeles, includes 60 circular acrylic pods united under a single yellow roof. Those pods are surrounded by a lush garden of over 6,000 plants, created on what was once a parking lot.
From the street, visitors pass through the formal façade to enter what feels like a different world: a low-slung, columnless lobby with a dizzying array of tropical plants, extruded tubular furniture pieces, and a mobile coffee cart. Second Home has made the lobby and courtyard spaces accessible to the public without membership. Beyond this space is the courtyard, which has been redesigned as a casual workspace, shaded by a canopy of trees.
However, the real showstopper is beyond the perimeter of the Williams-designed building: Sixty office spaces with acrylic walls and lemon-yellow rooftops carpet the rest of the site, connected to each other by pathways that meander through a forest of over 6,000 trees and plants.
Every seat within the 8,361-square-meter complex feels like the best place to open a laptop and get to work, while use a wide range of public services. Each office space is lined with outward-facing desks underneath a yellow, steel-braced ceiling festooned with the ductwork of a central air conditioner (it comes as a mild disappointment that the windows are inoperable, ruling out the option of passive heating and cooling).
The campus will also include a bookstore (a signature element of Second Home locations), a podcast recording studio, a 200-seat auditorium, and a restaurant.
The company has other locations in London and Lisbon, Portugal.
Second Home campus in East Hollywood, Los Angeles, includes 60 circular acrylic pods united under a single yellow roof. Those pods are surrounded by a lush garden of over 6,000 plants, created on what was once a parking lot.
From the street, visitors pass through the formal façade to enter what feels like a different world: a low-slung, columnless lobby with a dizzying array of tropical plants, extruded tubular furniture pieces, and a mobile coffee cart. Second Home has made the lobby and courtyard spaces accessible to the public without membership. Beyond this space is the courtyard, which has been redesigned as a casual workspace, shaded by a canopy of trees.
However, the real showstopper is beyond the perimeter of the Williams-designed building: Sixty office spaces with acrylic walls and lemon-yellow rooftops carpet the rest of the site, connected to each other by pathways that meander through a forest of over 6,000 trees and plants.
Every seat within the 8,361-square-meter complex feels like the best place to open a laptop and get to work, while use a wide range of public services. Each office space is lined with outward-facing desks underneath a yellow, steel-braced ceiling festooned with the ductwork of a central air conditioner (it comes as a mild disappointment that the windows are inoperable, ruling out the option of passive heating and cooling).
The campus will also include a bookstore (a signature element of Second Home locations), a podcast recording studio, a 200-seat auditorium, and a restaurant.
The company has other locations in London and Lisbon, Portugal.
