Courtyard Los Angeles Monterey Park

Los Angeles architect AXIS/GFA are the hotel designers of this award-winning hotel

The 2021 opening of the Courtyard Los Angeles Monterey Park added a much anticipated fixture to Monterey Park’s bourgeoning destination shopping and entertainment district along South Atlantic Boulevard, and contributed welcomed momentum to the city’s ongoing downtown revitalization.

A significant development requiring the assembly of three properties at the corner of Hellman Avenue and South Atlantic Boulevard, the Courtyard Los Angeles Monterey Park bookends the city’s notable Atlantic Times Square mixed-use development across the street, thereby elegantly completing Monterey Park’s unofficial gateway to the city.

Spanning over 2.1 acres and half the block in length, AXIS/GFA Architecture + Design’s clever conceptualization of the building includes three separate wings set at different depths along the streetscape, not only fostering a more dynamic pedestrian experience walking along the building’s street-level retail spaces, but also creating a central focal point destination for the hotel’s entrance porte cochere.  Capping each end of the building, massive architectural “lanterns” extend above the roofline and pay homage to Monterey Park’s surrounding Asian communities.

On the exterior, the building is understated and elegantly modern, featuring a mix of high quality metal panels, glass curtain wall, and stone used in varying combinations to further emphasize the separation of the building’s three wings.  On the interior, the experience of modernity and approachable elegance continues.  In the spacious two-story lobby, vertical screens create clever divisions among the lobby’s spaces, helping marshal guests to the reception and lounge areas, while at the same time emphasizing the vertical sense of scale of the space.  With Monterey Park’s surrounding Asian communities’ cultural influences as a central muse, the interior design program for the Courtyard Los Angeles Monterey Park includes contemporary Asian motifs that effectively balance traditionally familiar patterns and themes with a subtle modernity that is approachable for guests from any background.

As a dining destination within the hotel, The Atlantic Restaurant and Five55 Bar and Lounge features upscale Asian fusion cuisine set in a trendy and modern space, and continues the lobby’s understated Asian motif throughout the dining area.  Exposed ceiling mechanical add height and texture to the lounge and dining room, while a color palette including orange and tarnished brass balance the modernity with visual warmth.

In total, the building includes 288 rooms over six stories and in excess of 210,000 square feet of interior space.