Our Warner Music Group Headquarters project has won the prestigious 2020 Los Angeles Conservancy Preservation Award. Since 1982, the Conservancy has honored excellence in the field of historic preservation with our annual Preservation Awards. The awards are selected by an independent jury of experts in architecture, historic preservation, and community development. Together with Rockwell Group, RKA transformed the dilapidated building into the new home for Warner Music Group located in the ever-so-evolving Arts District just outside of Downtown Los Angeles.

The team set forth boldly to reimagine the deteriorated Beaux Arts style factory as new creative office and retail space for tenant Warner Music Group. Under the California Environmental Quality Act, the ambitious project restored, renovated, and modernized the 280,000-square-foot historic industrial complex, adaptively reusing it as a creative office space accompanied by a new green Paseo—all while preserving it its architectural character. 

View photos of the historic restoration and check out more of our adaptive reuse projects.