Before & After: He Gave His Hollywood Hills Midcentury an All-Electric Upgrade
Photo by Tim Lenz
At first, it was the view that took everyone’s breath away. This midcentury home stood for decades as a veritable time capsule perched high above the Sunset Strip in the Bird Streets neighborhood of the Hollywood Hills. Near dusk, the sky is ablaze with pinks and oranges, and the grid of Los Angeles shimmers long into the distance before extinguishing into the soft blue of the ocean beyond.
"The view was quite impressive," says architect George Kypreos, who cofounded the firm Sherwood Kypreos with his wife, interior designer Shana Sherwood. "The site itself was very interesting, because it felt expansive from one end, but actually quite intimate and enclosed by nature at the other."
