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Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Tables)
 9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2018
Accounting Policies [Abstract]  
Schedule of consolidated entities
As of September 30, 2018, the operating partnership has determined that three of its joint ventures met the definition of a VIE and are consolidated:
Entity Property Ownership Interest 
Hudson 1455 Market, L.P. 1455 Market 55.0 %
Hudson 1099 Stewart, L.P. Hill7 55.0 %
HPP-MAC WSP, LLC One Westside and 10850 Pico 75.0 %
Schedule of sources of revenues
The Company has compiled an inventory of its sources of revenues and has identified the following material revenue streams: (i) rental revenues (ii) tenant recoveries (iii) ancillary revenues (iv) guest parking revenues and (v) sale of real estate.
Revenue Stream
Components
Financial Statement Location
Rental revenues Office rentals, stage rentals and storage rentals Office and studio segments: rental 
Tenant recoveries
Reimbursement of real estate taxes, insurance, repairs and maintenance, other operating expenses and monthly parking revenues
Office segment: tenant recoveries and parking and other
Studio segment: tenant recoveries and other property-related revenue
Ancillary revenues Revenues derived from tenants’ use of lighting, equipment rental, power, HVAC and telecommunications (i.e., telephone and internet) Studio segment: other property-related revenue 
Guest parking revenues
Parking revenue that is not associated with lease agreements
Office segment: parking and other
Studio segment: other property-related revenue 
Sale of real estate Gains on sales derived from cash consideration less cost basis Gains on sale of real estate 
Schedule of recently issued accounting pronouncements
Changes to GAAP are established by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (the “FASB”) in the form of Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”). The following ASUs were adopted by the Company in 2018:
Standard
Description
Effect on the Financial Statements or Other Significant Matters
ASU 2018-09, Codification Improvements The amendment, among other things, clarifies when excess tax benefits should be recognized for share-based compensation awards, removes inconsistent guidance in income tax accounting for business combinations, clarifies the circumstances when derivatives may be offset, and the measurement of liability or equity-classified financial instruments when an identical asset is held as an asset, and allows portfolios of financial instruments and nonfinancial instruments accounted for as derivatives to use the portfolio exception to valuation. The Company adopted this guidance during Q2 2018 using the prospective approach. The adoption did not have an impact on the Consolidated Financial Statements. 
ASU 2018-07, Compensation—Stock Compensation (Topic 718): Improvements to Non-employee Share-Based Payment Accounting This amendment expands the scope of ASC 718 to include all share-based payment arrangements. It simplifies the accounting for share-based payments granted to non-employees for goods and services by aligning the accounting with the requirements for share-based payments granted to employees. The Company adopted this guidance during Q2 2018 using the prospective approach. The adoption did not have an impact on the Consolidated Financial Statements. 
Standard
Description
Effect on the Financial Statements or Other Significant Matters
ASU 2018-04, Investments—Debt Securities (Topic 320) and Regulated Operations (Topic 980): Amendments to SEC Paragraphs Pursuant to SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 117 and SEC Release No. 33-9273 (SEC Update)

ASU 2018-03, Technical Corrections and Improvements to Financial Instruments—Overall (Subtopic 825-10): Recognition and Measurement of Financial Assets and Financial Liabilities

ASU 2016-01, Financial Instruments— Overall (Subtopic 825-10), Recognition and Measurement of Financial Assets and Financial Liabilities 		The guidance no longer allows the use of cost method of accounting for equity instruments that do not have a readily determinable fair value, and companies are now required to measure equity investments at fair value through net income. Companies are permitted to elect a measurement alternative that allows for measuring equity instruments at cost, less any impairment, plus or minus changes resulting from observable price changes, adjusted as of the date that an observable transaction takes place, rather than the report date. For equity investments that do not have a readily determinable fair value, this guidance is adopted prospectively for all investments that exist as of the date of adoption. The guidance allows entities to use a prospective transition approach only for securities they elect to measure using the measurement alternative. The Company adopted this guidance during Q1 2018 using the prospective approach. The Company has elected to measure our equity instruments using the measurement alternative. Please see Note 6 for details. 
ASU 2017-12, Derivatives and Hedging (Topic 815): Targeted Improvements to Accounting for Hedging Activities The guidance eliminates the requirement to separately measure and report hedge ineffectiveness and generally requires the entire change in the fair value of a hedging instrument to be presented in the same income statement line as the hedged item. Therefore, a cumulative effect adjustment related to elimination of ineffectiveness measurement is required to be recorded to the opening balance of retained earnings as of the beginning of the fiscal year of adoption for a cash flow hedge. The guidance also eases certain documentation and assessment requirements and modifies the accounting for components excluded from the assessment of hedge effectiveness. This guidance must be applied using a modified retrospective approach. The Company adopted this guidance during Q1 2018 using the modified retrospective approach. As a result of the adoption, the concept of ineffectiveness from an accounting perspective is eliminated. Subsequent changes in fair value for a hedging instrument that has been designated and qualifies as a cash flow hedge will be recognized as a component in other comprehensive income. Additionally, the Company eliminated any previously recorded ineffectiveness with a cumulative effect adjustment. Please see Note 8 for details. 
ASU 2017-09, Compensation—Stock Compensation (Topic 718): Scope of Modification Accounting The guidance clarifies when changes to the terms or conditions of a share-based payment award must be accounted for as modifications. This guidance must be applied prospectively. The Company adopted this guidance during Q1 2018 on a prospective basis. The adoption did not have an impact on the Consolidated Financial Statements. 
ASU 2017-05, Other Income—Gains and Losses from the Derecognition of Nonfinancial Assets (Subtopic 610-20): Clarifying the Scope of Asset Derecognition Guidance and Accounting for Partial Sales of Nonfinancial Assets The guidance updates the definition of an in-substance nonfinancial asset and clarifies the scope of ASC 610-20 on the sale or transfer of nonfinancial assets to non-customers, including partial sales. It also clarifies the de-recognition guidance for nonfinancial assets to conform with the new revenue recognition standard. Either a full or modified retrospective approach can be applied. The Company adopted this guidance during Q1 2018 using the modified retrospective approach. The Company has not had variable consideration in our sale of real estate, or partial sales of nonfinancial assets or contribution of a nonfinancial asset to form a joint venture with retained non-controlling interest. The adoption did not have an impact on the Consolidated Financial Statements. 
Standard
Description
Effect on the Financial Statements or Other Significant Matters
ASU 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers amended by ASU 2016-08, Revenue from Contracts with Customers—Principal versus Agent Considerations (Reporting Revenue Gross versus Net)

Update 2016-20—Technical Corrections and Improvements to (Topic 606), Revenue from Contracts with Customers

Update 2016-12—Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606): Narrow-Scope Improvements and Practical Expedients

Update 2016-10—Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606): Identifying Performance Obligations and Licensing

Update 2016-08—Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606): Principal versus Agent Considerations (Reporting Revenue Gross versus Net) 		Issued on May 28, 2014, ASU 2014-09 outlines a single comprehensive model for entities to use in accounting for revenues arising from contracts with customers and specifically notes that lease contracts with customers are a scope exception. Issued on March 17, 2016, ASU 2016-08 clarifies certain aspects of the principal-versus-agent guidance in its new revenue recognition standard related to the determination of whether an entity is a principal or agent and the determination of the nature of each specified good or service. The guidance provides for practical expedients associated with the determination of whether a significant financing component exists and the expedient for recording an immediate expense for certain incremental costs of obtaining a contract with a customer. The Company adopted this guidance during Q1 2018 using the modified retrospective approach and is using the practical expedients associated with expensing incremental costs of obtaining a contract with a customer with terms of one year or less. The adoption of this ASU did not result in any changes with respect to the timing and pattern of revenue recognition. Please refer to the revenue recognition policy note above for the additional disclosures. 
Schedule of new accounting pronouncements The following table lists the recently issued ASUs that have not been disclosed in the Company’s 2017 Annual Report on Form 10-K and have not been adopted by the Company. The list excludes those ASUs that are not expected to have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
Standard 
Description
Effective Date
Effect on the Financial Statements or Other Significant Matters
ASU 2018-16, Derivatives and Hedging (Topic 815): Inclusion of the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (“SOFR”) Overnight Index Swap (“OIS”) Rate as a Benchmark Interest Rate for Hedge Accounting Purposes
The amendment permit use of the OIS rate based on SOFR as a U.S. benchmark interest rate for hedge accounting purposes under ASC 815. 
Effective for fiscal years beginning after December
15, 2018, and interim periods within those fiscal years.
The Company is currently evaluating the impact of this update. 
ASU 2018-15, Intangibles—Goodwill and Other—Internal-Use Software (Subtopic 350-40): Customer’s Accounting for Implementation Costs Incurred in a Cloud Computing Arrangement That Is a Service Contract (a consensus of the FASB Emerging Issues Task Force) The amendment allows for capitalizing implementation costs incurred in a hosting arrangement that is a service contract.  Effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2019 and interim periods within those fiscal years. Early adoption is permitted including adoption in any interim period. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of this update.  
ASU 2018-11, Leases (Topic 842): Targeted Improvements The amendment provides (i) a transition option to adopt ASC 842 using the modified retrospective transition provision and (ii) a practical expedient for lessors to elect a combined single lease component presentation. The effective date and transition requirements are the same as that in Update 2016-02 (Effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018, and interim periods within those fiscal years.) The Company expects to elect to use the transition method and practical expedient as described above in the Update on ASC 842 Implementation section.  
ASU 2018-10, Codification Improvements to Topic 842, Leases The amendments make 16 technical corrections to the lease standard, which include clarification of the rate implicit in the lease, impairment of the net investment in the lease, lessee reassessment of lease classification, lessor reassessment of lease term and purchase options, variable payments that depend on an index or rate and certain transition adjustments. The effective date and transition requirements are the same as that in Update 2016-02 (Effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018, and interim periods within those fiscal years.) 
The Company does not expect this update to have an impact on the Consolidated Financial Statements.
ASU 2018-01, Leases (Topic 842): Land Easement Practical Expedient for Transition to Topic 842 The amendments in this update permit an entity to elect an optional transition practical expedient to not evaluate under ASC 842 land easements that exist or expired before the entity’s adoption of ASC 842 and that were not previously accounted for as leases under ASC 840. An entity that elects this practical expedient should apply the practical expedient consistently to all of its existing or expired land easements that were not previously accounted for as leases under ASC 840. Once an entity adopts ASC 842, it should apply it prospectively to all new (or modified) land easements to determine whether the arrangement should be accounted for as a lease. The effective date and transition requirements are the same as that in Update 2016-02 (Effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018, and interim periods within those fiscal years.) 
The Company expects to elect the transition practical expedient for land easements.