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ARCH TOUR FEST: La Cienega 23
November 16, 2025 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm PST
$20.00 – $55.00
ARCH TOUR FEST: La Cienega 23
This 5-story, 23-unit housing project in West Hollywood draws inspiration from the city’s commitment to promote thoughtful design through courtyard housing and community-driven city development. Located on N. La Cienega Blvd. near Sunset Blvd., La Cienega 23 judiciously reduces its allowable building envelope in order to maximize open space and provide a common open scape. The resulting massing responds to the adjacent buildings and creates a transition between the surrounding higher-density blocks and the low-density residential buildings to the east. The design also reflects our mutual pledge with the City of West Hollywood toward building a better and more sustainable environment. This project incorporates a number of holistic, passive sustainable strategies that address issues of site, orientation, organization, materiality, and environmental exposure.
Tour Led By:
Kevin Murray – Associate, Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects
Since joining LOHA in 2017, Kevin has led projects across a broad range of scales, including urban revitalization, municipal partnerships, multi-family residential developments, and local cultural institutions. His notable projects include The Convent Performance Space and Education Center, Silver Lake Multi-Family Housing, and a Re-visioning of the Beverly Hills Streetscape and Transportation Infrastructure. As a Project Lead, Kevin has initiated and integrated communications among governmental leaders, community members, project stakeholders, clients, and consultants. He is passionate about collaborative work that marries context and novelty, and is dedicated to creating architecture that supports a more equitable future for Los Angeles. Kevin holds degrees from Harvard University and Washington University in St. Louis, and has received several awards for design excellence including the Rotch Fellowship, KPF Traveling Fellowship, and the Frederick Widmann Prize.
Ghazal Khezri – Director, Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects
Ghazal Khezri, AIA, is a director at LOHA. She has been practicing for over 15 years and led the design teams on projects such as Sandi Simon Center for Dance, Esri Campus Center, Wesley 3434, La Cienega 23, and many others. She has contributed to a diverse project typology, from cultural institutions, housing, and mixed-use to installations and objects. Beyond project leadership, she plays a key role in shaping the firm’s strategic vision.
Ghazal’s design approach leans heavily on finding adventurous solutions responsive to the context, culture, and ecology of the place to bring joy and welcome transformation. Her ongoing interest includes unlocking new possibilities by questioning when to use an existing building instead of building a new one.
Ghazal contributes to the broader dialogue on housing and design equity through active local engagement, including community-driven rebuilding efforts in Altadena, as well as participation in panel discussions. She has served as a juror for several AIA Design Honor Awards and as a design critic at institutions such as the University of Southern California (USC), the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan, and the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and Innsbruck.
Architect: Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects
Building Credits:
General Contractor: YS Buildings
Structural Engineer: Amir Pirbadian
Landscape Architect: STOSS
Interior Design: Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects
AIA CES: 1.0 LU|HSW Approved
Learning Objectives
1. Participants will discuss the strategy implemented at La Cienega to adapt a traditional courtyard layout to the semi-public green zone that is core to the project
2. Participants will be shown passive survivability strategies implemented at La Cienega 23
3. Participants will be introduced to opportunities for community space, outdoor space, and green space that were implemented for La Cienega 23
4. Participants will be shown long-life cycle and recycled materials and other material strategies used
Parking
Street parking only
