Found Hotel - Santa Monica
Found Hotels is a new hospitality chain that transforms older residential structures into hotels that provide both traditional suites as well as shared accommodations. The West Los Angeles facility the first to fully implement the brand provides 88 mixed room types, a garden court, lobby-lounge areas, guest kitchen and laundry, as well as a café restaurant all in a closed vaguely Mediterranean senior’s facility built in the early 1970s.
The structure was completely reclad in metal panels at upper stories mansards were replaced with parapets new windows were installed throughout and a new ground level façade utilizing glazed bricks, new storefront, a cadence of building bays and a marquee were combined to establish contemporary identity and sidewalk interest