Purple Brand by Scott & Scott Architects Centers on Sculptural Stairs
Amy Duong — May 4, 2026 — Art & Design
References: scottandscott
Purple Brand Studios by Scott & Scott Architects is a Los Angeles workspace organized around a central concrete staircase that anchors the interior layout. The project reworks an industrial building into a combined studio, showroom, and office environment for the fashion label Purple Brand. The staircase is cast in place and positioned as the main architectural element, linking multiple levels while guiding circulation through the space.
The interior uses a restrained palette of exposed concrete, steel, and glass, with controlled lighting used to highlight surface texture and volume. Workspaces, meeting rooms, and display areas are arranged around the stair, allowing it to function as both a structural and spatial core. The design preserves the building’s industrial character while introducing precise interventions that support daily operations and brand presentation.
Image Credit: Andrew Latreille
The interior uses a restrained palette of exposed concrete, steel, and glass, with controlled lighting used to highlight surface texture and volume. Workspaces, meeting rooms, and display areas are arranged around the stair, allowing it to function as both a structural and spatial core. The design preserves the building’s industrial character while introducing precise interventions that support daily operations and brand presentation.
Image Credit: Andrew Latreille
Trend Themes
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Sculptural Staircase as Spatial Anchor — A central cast-in-place staircase functioning as both structural core and circulation organizer creates new opportunities for interior layouts that prioritize vertical experience over planar floorplate division.
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Exposed Material Honesty — Raw concrete, steel, and glass palettes that emphasize texture and construction logic enable differentiated brand environments where material authenticity becomes a storytelling medium.
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Adaptive Reuse of Industrial Buildings — Repurposing older industrial shells into hybrid studio-showroom-office hybrids supports novel program adjacencies and cost-efficient urban regeneration strategies.
Industry Implications
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Commercial Office Design — Workplace design that centers sculptural structural elements can redefine collaborative zones and visual hierarchy within mid-rise office conversions.
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Fashion Brand Experience Design — Brand environments integrating production heritage and architectural rawness offer immersive retail and presentation formats that blur showroom and studio boundaries.
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Concrete Fabrication Technology — Advances in in-situ casting methods and formwork customization enable more intricate, load-bearing concrete features that serve both aesthetic and structural roles.
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