In Universal City—the neighborhood-sized home of Universal Pictures’s corporate campus, production lots, and theme park—LEVER Architecture has designed two new buildings: The Commons and One Universal. The former, an employee amenity space, evokes early moving picture technology through its circular structure and lenticular shade screen of thin aluminum tubes. Its companion, One Universal, is a more conventional glass office building that navigates the campus’s rugged hillside through a succession of staggered volumes. Together, these additions are part of the larger Campus Project, an effort to modernize Universal Studios’s corporate facilities, while also improving the campus’s walkability, beauty, and landscaping.
