Young Oak Kim Academy – Monday Memories

Adjacent to the Wilshire Vermont Station mixed-use development is the Young Oak Kim Academy which was designed as a prototype “urban academy” on a site with access to the regional subway and bus transportation system. The main middle school structure is a 3-story steel frame building on grade with an eccentric braced frame lateral framing system. There…

US Postal Service Terminal Annex – Throwback Thursday

The existing 1938 building is a registered national historic landmark and is comprised of a 4-story conventionally reinforced concrete structure with a 1-level basement. Originally built for the postal services, the new occupants of the building are computer/internet service providers which require extremely high-density UPS and battery back-up power systems to be installed. Architect: Johnson…

FABRIC

Englekirk engineered the seismic upgrade of FABRIC to meet the Concrete Nonductile Ordinance and is currently working closely with the project team on the renovation.  Soon, FABRIC will house 60,000 sf of creative office space and 43,000 sf of shops and dining.   Rendering by Nephew

Summit on Sixth – Monday Memories

“The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.” -H. Jackson Brown, Jr. #Englekirkprojectspotlight As part of the Los Angeles City Adaptive Reuse Program, the Summit on Sixth was the seismic retrofit of an 11-story, 181,000-square-foot steel moment frame office building that has been converted into a condominium. Architect: Van Tilburg, Banvard & Soderbergh…