- A 92 Walk Score, direct bus lines on Santa Monica Boulevard, and on-site parking make for a simple commute by foot, bike, bus, or car.
- The building’s architectural design shows up the moment you walk in. High ceilings and glass curtain walls change how the whole day feels.
- Focus time doesn’t mean choosing between a packed lounge and a sealed-off room. A phone booth, a meeting room, or just a corner with less foot traffic all do the job.
- A WeWork All Access membership gets you into the building as well as into other WeWork locations across LA and beyond.
Drive along San Vicente Boulevard in West Hollywood and three enormous, color-coded buildings interrupt the skyline: a blue one, a green one, and one that’s impossible to describe as anything but red. That’s the landmarked Pacific Design Center, and a few floors up inside the Red Building sits one of WeWork’s Los Angeles locations, right in the middle of the city’s design district.
No composite office, no invented member — just one address you could look up yourself. So what does a workday inside the WeWork Pacific Design Center – Red Building look like?
Getting to the Red Building
The Red Building sits at 750 N San Vicente Boulevard, right inside the Pacific Design Center complex. Here’s how people get there:
- By car: there’s on-site underground parking if you’d rather drive, though the neighborhood’s Walk Score and bus lines make it easy to skip the car entirely.
- On foot: the neighborhood carries a Walk Score of 92, officially a “Walker’s Paradise.” Melrose Avenue, Santa Monica Boulevard, and the Sunset Strip are all a short walk away.
- By bike: a Bike Score of 74 makes it “Very Bikeable,” with bike lanes along Santa Monica Boulevard covering most of the route.
- By bus: Metro Lines 4 and 105 run along Santa Monica Boulevard, with Lines 217 and 704 nearby.
Walking into the Red Building
Step inside and the building does a lot of the talking. High ceilings and floor-to-ceiling windows flood the space with natural light, a detail members bring up again and again. This is the Pacific Design Center, after all — the building was designed to be seen, not just worked in.
You’ll pass a dog or two on the way to a desk (the space is dog-friendly, and it shows). Grab a coffee, drop your bag, and you’re working before you’ve had time to check your phone.
Finding your focus
Not every task needs the same kind of space, and this location doesn’t force you to pretend otherwise. For a freelancer taking a client call, that’s a phone booth, private enough to sound professional. For a founder pulling together an ad hoc huddle with two teammates, it’s a meeting room booked for the block they need. For a hybrid worker who wants three uninterrupted hours away from notifications, a quieter corner of the lounge does the job just as well.
Same workspace, different reasons to be there.
Taking a break
Everyone needs to step away from the screen for a bit, and the lounge-style common areas are built for exactly that. Trade your desk for a couch, or sit somewhere with a different view for ten minutes while your brain catches up with your to-do list.
It’s a small shift, but it works. You come back to your desk with your focus reset, not just your coffee.
Lunch, hallways, and everyone in between
Lunch rarely happens alone for long. Someone from two desks over asks what you’re working on, and twenty minutes later you’ve traded advice on a client contract neither of you saw coming. Some days you’ll walk out to Melrose Avenue for lunch; plenty of days the best conversation happens right there in the kitchen, or in the hallway on the way back to your desk.
None of this is scheduled, and that’s what makes it work: enough interesting people sharing the same building, left to talk.
Whatever’s on the calendar today
Check the community board on any given week, and there’s usually something happening in the common areas: a workshop, a presentation, or a low-key happy hour that gives you an opportunity to network.
You don’t need to RSVP weeks in advance or clear your calendar. Pop in for twenty minutes between meetings, or stay for the whole thing. Either way, it’s one more chance to turn “that person from the third row” into a connection.
Help is never far away
The team running the space is always available to help. A badge that’s not working, a new face who looks a little lost — someone’s usually already walking over to lend a hand.
It’s not just a first-day routine, either. It shows up in small ways all day long: a heads-up about an event, or a quick fix when the printer’s acting up. It’s easy to overlook until you need it.
The best of both worlds
West Hollywood’s Design District is creative and walkable, and the Red Building sits right in the heart of it. If that’s the crowd and the neighborhood you’re after, it’s a great place to land.
Besides, the same WeWork All Access membership that gets you into the Red Building also gets you into other WeWork locations across Los Angeles — Downtown, Santa Monica, Playa Vista, and plenty more in between. So this is one of many options. Some days the Design District is exactly where you want to be, while other days a spot closer to a client makes more sense. Whatever it may be, that flexibility is already yours.
