Founded in 1925, the Claremont Colleges occupy a connected series of leafy, low-rise campuses about 30 miles from downtown Los Angeles. It's not in the heart of this stereotypically collegiate setting but along its less handsome southern edge, near a commuter rail line and adjacent to a large surface parking lot, that the New York firm Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis Architects (LTL) has completed its first West Coast project.
The firm's brief was straightforward: Take the scattered offices of the Claremont University Consortium (CUC)'which is essentially the back-of-house administrative arm of the colleges, responsible for everything from payroll to campus security'and bring them together under one roof. The architects were also asked not to build a new facility from scratch but to reuse an existing steel-framed warehouse.
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