Sony Pictures Entertainment

This 207,000 ft², eight-story commercial office building sits at the entrance of the seven-acre Sony Pictures Entertainment lot in Culver City, CA. This ConXL 400 structure was part of an extensive site improvement, including a 1,100-car parking structure and a health facility. Designed in the traditional Art Deco style and used consistently throughout the studio’s 70-year history, the new Sony site enjoys the distinction as the first major production studio to be LEED-Gold certified.

The primary architectural design of this structure features tiers/setbacks starting at the fourth floor of the building. Due to extremely limited space around the project, a tower crane was necessary to reach places a ground-based crane could not. The restricted geometry with setbacks and unique design loading limited the available locations for conventional moment frames, making the ConXL 400 system the ideal solution.