NeueHouse Venice

NeueHouse Venice Beach is a private workspace for the westside creative community, which offers spaces to work and dine, as well as elevated cultural programming.

This award-wining project is composed of two neighboring, unreinforced masonry buildings with significant structural constraints separated by a shared masonry party wall. Using a unique “alternative methods” approach approved by the City, the project pierced the wall to create a single 17,000-sf structure, a solution available only due to Terrain’s extensive building code knowledge. Great care was taken to preserve the character of the 100-year-old building while introducing entirely new supporting infrastructure and a new commercial kitchen.

Utilizing opportunities not obvious within the California Coastal Act, Terrain was able to propose building uses and legalization of a rooftop deck in a matter of months that the project’s land use consultants originally believed would take years. Programs included: private studios, open workstations interspersed with lounge settings, and specialty spaces such as an art gallery, broadcast room, and wellness room. The project features organic materials and locally crafted custom furniture.

Large ground floor windows take up almost the entire street-facing façade allowing ample, filtered light into the reception area. Retrofitted skylights and clerestory windows in the co-working areas bring controlled natural light deep into the space. A large folding glass garage door opens the gallery to the sidewalk, a gesture which extends cultural programming to the street and community. The flow between indoor and outdoor space continues on the rooftop patio, with NeueHouse’s in-house food and beverage program ‘Reunion’.

NeueHouse Venice Beach was winner of Interior Design Magazine’s Best of Year Awards in the Co-Working Office category, 2023, Los Angeles Business Council Architectural Awards in the Adaptive Reuse category, 2023, the IIDA SoCal Calibre Awards in the Transformation category,
2024.