Development Manager, Architectural Manager Construction Manager
Resume:
Roger Olin Wolf, AIA
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Summary “Could you imagine building this project without Roger?” John Archibald, Casden Property Company.
After completing my course of higher education, I moved to Santa Monica. The first two and a half years here were spent at Pereira Associates, Los Angeles and Rachlin & Roberts, Beverly Hills. I joined Johannes van Tilburg & Partners, precursor of Van Tilburg, Banvard & Soderbergh, AIA (VTBS) in 1983, was licensed in California and made Associate in 1984, and left the firm in 1988. From 1988 to 1991 I was a development manager for The Chandler Group, a builder/developer specializing in office and apartment construction. From 1992 through 1997 I was in private practice specializing in entitlements, commercial, multi- family, interiors and private residential design. In 1997 I rejoined VTBS, was made a partner in 2006, and returned to private practice in June 2020.
The bulk of my fully constructed project experience is with urban infill multi-family residential, mixed-use, commercial and adaptive re-use for profit developments.
Over the years I have worked on all aspects of project execution from acquisition through construction completion. This experience includes but is not limited to feasibility analysis, community interface, entitlements and government liaison; client and tenant communication; contract negotiations, zoning and building code research;
engineering coordination and analysis; supervision of design development and production personnel; construction field work and administration. Virtually all the executed large-scale projects include recreational and leasing facilities, both free standing and integrated to the building fabric. I fully appreciate the role the engineering disciplines, landscape architects and interior designers play in the financial viability and marketability of the finished product. Value engineering and bang for the buck are firmly instilled in my design habits.
In sum, “I design machines for making money.”
Registration 1984 Licensed Architect
State of California
California License Number C-15176
Education 1981 Master of Architecture
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Cambridge, Massachusetts
1977 Artium Baccalaurei
Dartmouth College
Hanover, New Hampshire
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Project Experience Every project presents unique challenges. I have encountered and resolved many different issues endemic to the area. These include but are not limited to combined framing systems, seismic separation, aerial concrete shear walls and ductile frames; structural steel studs, steel moment and braced frames; central, package, two pipe, four pipe, and commercial refrigeration mechanical systems; generators, inverters, solar and complex electrical service issues; complex subgrade conditions such as methane, high water tables, bedrock, weak soils, oil wells, contaminated soils, dewatering, shoring issues, soil enhancement, post tension and standard matt foundations, underpinning, piles, and the list goes on. The representative projects listed below were primarily done while associated with VTBS but also include projects from other venues.
BLVD 6200, Hollywood, CA completed 2018
Two large podium style buildings on both sides of
Hollywood Blvd adjacent to the Pantages Theater; 1,040 apartments; 140,000 sf retail and parking for 2,600 cars with two 11,000 sf internal loading docks.
https://www.eastownla.com/
http://elcentroapartments.com/
Movietown, West Hollywood, CA completed 2014
Originally designed and entitled as a combination of 10 story Type IA hi-rise and Type IIIA over a three level subterranean parking structure with 20,000 sf of retail fronting Santa Monica Blvd, later VE’d by us for a successor developer to 5 stories of Type IIIA over two stories of Type IA above grade construction with the same 380 units and 850 cars. (CD’s & CA by others)
https://www.avaloncommunities.com/california/west- hollywood-apartments/avalon-west-hollywood
Latitude 33, Venice, CA completed 2011
Project features three different building types: adaptive reuse, podium style and townhome construction in Type IA, Type IIIA and Type VA buildings accommodating 122 units and 310 cars and 5,000 sf of retail.
https://www.mdrcondos.com/latitude-33/
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655 Hope, Los Angeles, CA completed 2010
A very peculiar 17-story hi-rise that started life as a 7-story concrete parking structure to which 10 stories of steel framed office was added during the 1980’s only to be adaptively reused for 80 live work condominium units. Project included a partial seismic retrofit and the addition of a rooftop recreation area.
https://www.highrises.com/los-angeles/655-hope-condos/ Summit on Sixth, Los Angeles, CA completed 2009
Adaptive reuse of a 1960’s Type IA steel framed high-rise office (building stripped to frame and seismically retrofitted) with attendant 400 car concrete parking structure. Eighty- two condominium homes with 8,000 sf retail.
https://www.highrises.com/los-angeles/summit-on-sixth/ Empire Landing, Burbank, CA completed 2008
A mixed-use residential community on a 7.5 acre site including 39 townhomes, 237 units in three 4-story slab on grade apartment buildings and a flat plate parking structure for approximately 450 cars with concrete bridges at the third floor level connected to the apartments.
https://www.empirelanding.com/
NOHO Gallery, North Hollywood, CA completed 2007
Four story Type VA slab on grade apartments with two wrap-style long span parking structures. 438 units and approximately 750 cars.
https://www.apartments.com/the-gallery-at-noho-commons- north-hollywood-ca
NOHO Lofts, North Hollywood, CA completed 2006
Type VA residential lofts style apartment units over a Type IA podium style parking garage for 760 cars and 15,000 sf of retail / live-work spaces. 292 units.
https://www.loftsatnoho.com/
801 Grand / Sky Lofts, Los Angeles, CA completed 2006 Adaptive reuse of the upper 11 floors of an existing 23-story Type IA hi-rise office building for approximately 130 residential condominiums while lower 12 floors were still in use as offices and retail.
https://www.highrises.com/los-angeles/skylofts/
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Palazzo Westwood, Westwood, CA completed 2006
A mixed-use project spanning Glendon Ave with 350 luxury apartments and 53,000 sf of retail. Included the historical preservation and repurposing of an original 1920’s concrete apartment building including an internal steel frame seismic retrofit with recreation facilities and eleven apartments. https://www.liveglendon.com/
Flower Street Lofts, Los Angeles, CA completed 2004 A 3 story, 1920’s vintage UPS distribution center with internal circulation for delivery trucks found new life as 91 live-work condominiums with the addition of a floor below and two floors above the existing concrete shell that was fully seismically retrofitted. Parking was provided in an existing underutilized structure across the alley with an architectural bridge added at the 4th floor level. https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=1130+s+flower+st+l os+angeles&form=HDRSC2&first=1&scenario=ImageBasicH over
Palazzo’s and the Villas, Los Angeles, CA completed 2003 Three sites on the periphery of the historic Park la Brea residential complex were repurposed accommodate three projects totaling 1,131 units of Type IIIA 5 story wood construction and 250 units of Type VA construction over conventional concrete two level subterranean parking. https://www.palazzo-west.com/
https://www.palazzo-east.com
https://www.thevillasapts.com
Parc Pointe, Burbank, CA completed 1990
243 luxury apartments, a 30,000 sf office building, the construction of an eight-acre city park, and shared parking for 417 automobiles. Type VA over Type IA.
https://anchorpacifica.com/residential-properties/parc- pointe-apartments
Affiliations American Institute of Architects
International Code Council
Various Dartmouth & Harvard Alumni Associations
St. Monica Roman Catholic Church
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