Last updated on May 22nd, 2024 at 01:31 am
Beverly Hills has branded itself as high-end shopping heaven and the home of the rich and famous since the 1950s. Its fame has inspired more than a few popular television shows, including The Beverly Hillbillies and Beverly Hills, 90210. Santa Monica Boulevard cuts the city in half, with most businesses in the south and primarily residential in the north. Most visitors to this city come to shop their hearts out.
Beverly Hills’ retail industry is projected to flourish further in the succeeding years, and it’s an excellent place to open a retail business of any kind. Our team has listed down some of the best retail architects in the area, handpicked for their awards, expertise, and portfolios.
Montalba Architects
2525 Michigan Avenue, Building T4, Santa Monica, CA 90404
Montalba Architects, Inc. is a multi-award-winning firm that creates unique architecture and urban design projects in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. Its developments highlight conceptual experience by providing socially responsible and visually proactive environments. Volumetric landscapes, material integrity, and the sculpting of natural light are hallmarks of the firm’s work. Montalba Architects seeks to give practical alternatives to its clients when it comes to buildability and situational requirements.
Montalba Architects has built a prestigious and diversified portfolio of projects of commercial office interiors, residential homes, retail stores, mixed-use buildings, and master planning. The firm received the American Architecture Award, the Chicago Athenaeum, the AN Best of Design Awards, and the Rethinking the Future Awards, the Third Award. David Montalba, FAIA, runs the firm as its founding principal.
Gruen Associates
6330 San Vicente Boulevard, Suite 200, Los Angeles, CA 90048
Gruen Associates has established itself as one of Los Angeles’s most well-known legacy firms, putting together a diverse portfolio of landmark developments since 1946. The firm provides innovative solutions through exceptional planning, architecture, retail architecture, transportation planning, design, urban design, interior design, and landscape architecture services, constructing on the pioneering success of renowned Founder Victor Gruen. The firm’s impact on the industry and the world persists into the future under Managing Partner Michael A. Enomoto, FAIA, and his Partners Larry Schlossberg, AIA, AICP, LEED AP BD+C, Debra Gerod, FAIA, LEED AP, and Ashok Vanmali, AIA.
Gruen Associates has received multiple awards for its collaborative practice, such as the 2015 AIA California Firm Award and the 2019 APA Los Angeles Segment Distinguished Leadership – Planning Firm Award. The firm’s portfolio of over 10,000 projects plays a pivotal role in guiding future generations of experts.
Abramson Architects
5171 West Jefferson Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90016
Abramson Architects aspires to create a world where architecture elevates and inspires the human soul. The firm, founded in 1999, provides architecture and planning services to clients in Los Angeles County. It enjoys architectural challenges, and critical thinking helps its experts become better designers by finding a balance between rationality and creativeness. Abramson does not fit into a specific niche because its experts can bring breakthroughs to conventional development models that have not yet become common.
Trevor Abramson, FAIA, the firm’s owner, has over two decades of experience in his field. He was named a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, an honor bestowed by the AIA on individuals who have made exceptional contributions to the profession through design excellence. Under his leadership, Abramson was awarded the 2021 Westside Urban Forum Design Awards – Award of Merit and the 2019 AIA San Fernando Valley Chapter – Design Citation Award.
Kenneth Park Architects
931 N. Cole Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90038
Kenneth Park Architects, established in 1989, is a full-service architectural and design firm specializing in a wide range of project types that impact places, communities and urban spaces in which people live, work, and shop. Under the leadership of its principal architect, Kenneth Park, the firm consists of 50 design professionals with offices in New York, Los Angeles and San Antonio.
KPA’s work spans across the entire US with some of the largest developers and real estate owners such as Westfield, Seritage Growth Properties, Vornado Realty Trust and major global retail brands such as Chanel, Dior, Givenchy, Balenciaga, MCM, Giorgio Armani, Bucherer and countless domestic retail brands. The firm’s works gained the attention of the press, including Robb Report, WatchPro, Chain Store Age, Undercover LA, and Commercial Observer.
Standard Architecture
4411 Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90029
Standard Architecture is the architecture and interior design collaboration of architects Jeffrey Allsbrook and Silvia Kuhle based in Los Angeles. Cognizant of architecture’s ability to express anything from a way of life to a company’s image, the firm’s work strives to provide the environment that represents the idea.
After relocating to Los Angeles from Europe and extensive travel, the principals’ experience has consistently provided a unique view of the building and site. Over the years, the firm has collaborated with brands such as Hourglass, Supervinyl, Blu Dot Nomad, Jenni Kayne, and James Perse. Interior Design Magazine, Dezeen, Architectural Digest Spain, California Homes + Design, and Architectural Digest have all featured the firm. Each of Standard’s projects begins with a discussion about the program and its purpose, then progresses towards its identity.
RDC
245 East Third Street, Long Beach, CA 90802
RDC is a multi-award-winning industry leader in retail design and retail architecture. With over 40 years of experience in retail design, the firm’s depth and competence in all facets of retail enable it to take a holistic approach when developing the retail experience. It has acquired vital client relationships and deep knowledge of the sea changes that have shaped the retail industry. The firm’s experienced staff and industry longevity inform its strategy, bringing seasoned thought leadership to drive retail trends.
Serving clients in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, San Diego, Reston, Boise, Portland, and Arkansas, the company currently has 35 licensed professionals and 160 employees. Its work has been featured by Archinect, Southwest Times Record, Designboom, and The San Diego Union-Tribune under the direction of Brad Williams, AIA as its president. Mitra Esfandiari, AIA, and Branko Prebanda join him in leadership as senior principals.
KMD Architects
800 W First Street, Suite 0409/0410, Los Angeles, CA 90012
KMD Architects, established in San Francisco in 1963, has merged research, innovative design, and creative vision to become one of the world’s most renowned architecture firms. It is an employee-owned Private Corporation with an average of 200 employees over the last ten years. The firm’s work is as varied as where it can be found, the firm has built in over 30 states and 20 countries worldwide, including France, Japan, China, South Korea, the United Arab Emirates, and Mexico.
During the past two decades, KMD has garnered more than 200 design awards and international design competitions, including over 40 honors from the American Institute of Architects (AIA). Its designs serve clients in the commercial, retail, healthcare, civic, corrections, academia, corporate, residential, and hospitality sectors.
ShubinDonaldson
3751 Robertson Boulevard, Culver City, CA 90232
ShubinDonaldson distinguishes itself through its entrepreneurial mindset, companionship, and collegial support. It is a design and planning firm that works with homeowners in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Orange County, and the surrounding areas. Its team of experts values inventiveness and a strict work ethic. It illustrates its commitment to providing maximum value to its clients by continually improving at what it does and investing in cutting-edge technology and the professional development of its team.
The firm has expanded to comprise more than 50 staff members, with headquarters in Culver City and satellite offices in Santa Barbara and Orange County. ShubinDonaldson’s work has been featured by the press, including Live + Work, Masking, Residential Design Magazine, Interior Design Magazine, Interiors Magazine, Architectural Record, The Robb Report, The Real Deal, and Seaside Living.
SPACE International Inc.
3630 Tyburn Street, Los Angeles, CA 90065
Space International Inc. is an award-winning architectural firm committed to creating high-quality, insightful designs in a fast-paced and growing culture. Since the firm entered the industry in 1998, the firm’s goals have been to enhance physical experiences by creating specialized works of architecture, landscape, and interior environments.
Space’s portfolio spans various types and disciplines, showing the broad cultural and artistic influences that inspire each project. The firm creates design strategies tailored to the unique possibilities unearthed within each project, including civic and commercial spaces, private projects, new developments, renovations, and restorations. Michael Ferguson is the founder and principal architect of Space International Inc., a licensed architect in California who is committed to advancing architectural discourse in both professional and academic settings.
House & Robertson Architects
10125 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA 90232
House & Robertson Architects is an architecture and planning firm established in 1996. Its primary goal is successful project delivery, with a no-nonsense strategy for building developments, as evidenced by its track history. Principals Jim House and Doug Robertson have supervised over fifteen million square feet of building projects at the cost of over a billion dollars.
HRA has remained true to its core goals and values, focusing exclusively on operating as executive architects or architects of record in partnership with a wide range of design firms on developments for private-sector corporate, developer, and institutional clients. As HRA grew and progressed, it stayed true to its original vision of creating a great culture for a collaborative practice that is agile, flexible, inventive, ever-evolving, non-hierarchical, assertively non-corporate, and insistent on having fun while doing great work.
