Park La Brea Apartments • Location: Los Angeles • Architects: Gordon Kaufman and J.E. Stanton • Built: Early 1950s • Units: More than 4,000 rental units • Notable: Hollywood movie star Charlton Heston was once a resident at Park La Brea, according to an article in the Los Angeles Times. The property is currently being renovated as part of a re-branding campaign to compete with new local development. Nadel Architects created the renovation designs, which include a new paint scheme, a gateway and building entryway, and a modern sales office and fitness center.
Park La Brea Apartments • Location: Los Angeles • Architects: Gordon Kaufman and J.E. Stanton • Built: Early 1950s • Units: More than 4,000 rental units • Notable: Hollywood movie star Charlton Heston was once a resident at Park La Brea, according to an article in the Los Angeles Times. The property is currently being renovated as part of a re-branding campaign to compete with new local development. Nadel Architects created the renovation designs, which include a new paint scheme, a gateway and building entryway, and a modern sales office and fitness center.

Home to more than 10,000 residents, Park La Brea was built in Los Angeles in the 1950s … [and is] clearly based on Le Corbusier’s [urban design] plan with X-shaped towers placed on a diagonal grid in park-like settings. Garden apartments surround the perimeter, creating an abundance of open space not found in today’s urban context. While the units in the towers are large and shallow with incredible light and air, the building configuration and site plan orientation provide for a great deal of privacy. Park La Brea is one of the few and finest examples of this urban planning concept of the Modern Movement.

—Aram Chahbazian, principal, Thomas P. Cox: Architects, Irvine, Calif.