Like many of the architects currently in the limelight in Los Angeles, Frank Israel is not a Californian either. He hails from the East Coast of the United States, where he studied with Robert Venturi and, despite having worked for some years with Frank Gehry, his favorite architect is, surprisingly, Norman Foster. Israel makes an architecture based on ≪juxtaposition and differentiation≫ -according to his own words-, so his buildings abound in conflict and disjunctions.

The offices for the Propaganda Films company have been installed in a typical warehouse located on a dusty Hollywood street on the corner of the former Howard Hughes studios. With a nearly square floor plan in which the front facade forms a gentle curve, the old warehouse was emptied and renovated, retaining the entire outer shell and roof trusses. New skylights were opened up so that diffused light flooded the entire space, and the front wall was modified to create two small intermediate edifices between the exterior and the interior...[+]