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Chapman Court Team
Owner/Client – Matthew Neman, Elkwood Investments
Architect – Jonathan Watts, KFA Architecture
Historic Consultant – G. Peyton Hall, G. Peyton Hall
Historic Consultant – Laura Janssen, Historic Resources Group
Contractor – Michael Librush, MDM Builders Group
Civil Engineer – Sherry Bigonah, Kimley-Horn
Structural Engineer – Craig Chamberlain, Nishkian Chamerlain
Structural Engineer – Elizabeth Claassen, Nishkian Chamerlain
Electrical Engineer – Richard Ibrahim, Creative Engineering Group
Plumbing Engineer – Villamor Agcaoili, Creative Engineering Group
Mechanical Engeering – Irina Dmitryev, Creative Engineering Group
Entitlements / Land Use Consultants – Elizabeth Peterson, Elizabeth Peterson Group
Architect – Jonathan Watts, KFA Architecture
Entitlements / Land Use Consultants – Elizabeth Peterson, Elizabeth Peterson Group
Project Lead – Jonathan Watts, KFA Architecture
Chapman Court
The Chapman Court of Los Angeles is a winner for the 2022 Preservation Design Award for Rehabilitation. Award recipients are selected by a jury of top professionals in the fields of architecture, engineering, planning, and history, as well as renowned architecture critics and journalists. Tickets and sponsorship options are available at californiapreservation.org/awards.
About the Chapman Court Project
Chapman Court is a rehabilitation and renovation of a 1929 mixed-use Spanish Colonial Revival style building into a modern hotspot with new ground-level retail and cafes and second-floor creative commercial offices while preserving its original historic character.
Chapman Court, formerly Chapman Park Studio, is located on the northwest corner of West 6th Street and South Alexandria Avenue at 3501 West 6th Street in the Wilshire Center neighborhood in the City of Los Angeles. It is a two- to three-story plus partial basement mixed-use building with a four-story square tower with clipped corners.
The building, originally constructed in 1928, is a unique example of Spanish Colonial Revival architecture with intricate Churrigueresque detailing, by a prominent Los Angeles architectural firm during the 1920s, Morgan, Walls & Clements. The iconic building, with its 34′ tower and 20′ high ceilings, flooded with natural light and skylights, was completely renovated, seismically rehabilitated, and transformed into a mix of restored spaces including four enlarged ground-floor retail spaces, and nine second-floor creative office spaces. The newly-restored Chapman Court remains a crowning jewel in the center of Koreatown.