WG Café

The WG café is an anchor food amenity in the building’s podium serving the hotel, offices, and convention center. The venue is a floating mirrored glass box located within the gallery space at street level and is flooded with daylight.

This urban living room is conceived as an interface between the hotel and the city, an urban juncture that is visible from all podium levels and across the plaza. The space serves as the passage between indoor and outdoor, and connects the porte cochere and the plaza.

Indoor trees reinforce a human scale. Built-in banquettes, upholstered with ribbed, perforated leather, reference automotive upholstery and LA’s long standing car culture. Rocking chairs and communal tables offer a respite from the hubbub of the city.

The café is made of reflective blue glass and thin accent lights. The roof of the café is patterned, as seen from the balconies above, and visually completes the intricate stone floor pattern below. As urban camouflage, the café walls reflect the surrounding environment, highlighting the building’s architecture.