SAG-AFTRA Foundation Center for Performing Artists

Atop the 1949 Prudential / Museum Square Building by Wurdeman & Becket on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, CA, Best Practice Architecture delivered a 12,200-square-foot penthouse for the SAG-AFTRA Foundation. Completed June 2024, the Center for Performing Artists gathers a 100-person screening room, voice-over labs, recording booths, on-camera studios, a tech lab, editing bay, classrooms, and foundation offices under one roof.

The facility supports free professional development and financial aid for more than 160,000 SAG-AFTRA performers nationwide. Opposite the view side of the gathering space, a wood tambour–clad screening room anchors the acoustic and material story, while clinical and teaching rooms stay discrete enough for serious training. Howard Building Corporation was contractor; Silman, Derive Engineers, and Akustiks joined the consultant team.

As workplace and cultural interiors by Best Practice Architecture, the project turns a historic Los Angeles penthouse into a working campus for performers rather than a ceremonial lobby alone.

Published project size is listed as 12,200 sf Penthouse. Project status is recorded as Completed June 2024. Credits noted on the Best Practice Architecture project page include Client: SAG-AFTRA Foundation | Screen Actors Guild + America Federation of Television and Radio Artists; Contractor: Howard Building Corporation; Consultant Team: Structural Engineer | Silman Structural Solutions | MEP & Building Systems | Derive Engineers | Acoustic Design | Akustiks | Lighting Design | dark light Design | Theater Design | Theater Projects | Theater Seating | Series Seating | AV Design | Boyce Nemec | Furniture | Two-Point | Permit Expediting | Permit Advisors | Signage | Sign Specialists Corporation; Photo Credit: Rafael Soldi. The listing year is 2024.