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LOS ANGELES—TCA Architects has unveiled thedesign plans for the Neptune Marina, a 526-unitapartment development on the waterfront in Marinadel Rey from Legacy Partners. The project started16 years ago, and has been hugely delayed due to a lengthyentitlement process and legal issues. With entitlements finallysecured, TCA has revealed a mid-century-modern-inspired aestheticwith clean and linear lines for the waterfront apartmentcommunity.
"Marina del Rey was born in the midst of a significant designmovement. The project is a tirst effort to synthesize thevernacular tradition with a modern language to create anarchitecture that is firmly rooted in its own place and time,"Tim Mustard, studio director and the architect ofrecord at TCA Architects, tells GlobeSt.com. "The goal was not tochange the coarse and culture, meaning the mid-century movementwhen this was born in the 1950s, and not to produce a stylisticreplica of times past, but rather to fuse the current social realtyand current social reality and the current expressions with thephysical experiences of the site's history."
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