Project Name
Waterside at Marina del Rey
Location
Marina del Rey, Calif.
Square Footage
130,000
Architect
Perkowitz + Ruth
Architects
Client
Caruso Affiliated
Credits
Leasing Tenant Coordination
Caruso Affiliated
Landscape Architect
TGP Inc.
Civil Engineer
KPFF Consulting Engineers
Lighting Design
Francis Krahe & Associates Inc.
Structural Engineer
Wiseman + Rohy Structural Engineers
Contractor
Snyder Langston
Call it the Caruso treatment. Developer Caruso Affiliated charged design firm Perkowitz + Ruth Architects with the task of transforming a vanilla neighborhood center into a more upscale lifestyle setting. With details like articulated façades, a wide pedestrian walkway and design features like whimsical lighting and fountains, that's exactly what Perkowitz + Ruth delivered in conceiving the reborn Waterside at Marina del Rey in California. One of the major challenges designers overcame was breaking up the segmented massing of the existing center. They achieved this through creating open walkways and framed storefront façades. At the heart of the project is a 3,500-square-foot cobblestone and tile courtyard.
