SCHOOL OF CINEMATIC ARTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | LOS ANGLES, CALIFORNIA

Square Footage: 137,000
Firm's Role: Team member UDG

The opening of “California Style” with the Mediterranean flare cast in place concrete building complex marked the 80th anniversary of the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California (USC).

The main building is a four-story, 137,000-sf facility that houses classrooms, production labs, and administrative offices, as well as a 200-seat theater, an exhibition hall, and a café situated off a central courtyard. Completed in 2010, the second phase of the project provides another 75,000-sf of educational and production space in four buildings.

The massive symmetrical structure's beige plastered walls, iron lattice screens, low pitched roofs, colonnades, wooden medallion and marble flooring reflects the genera of the design.