China Check-In
Bay Area architects that turned to China for work when the U.S. economy stumbled say demand slowed in 2012 but is recovering.
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Silicon Valley’s Dueling Campuses
By Sharon Simonson
Call it Star Wars.
By multiple accounts, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is an efficiency-minded company.
Its products are about helping people to more easily manage their lives, and the...
Hewlett-Packard’s Whitman: Executive Center Brings A New Day
By Sharon Simonson
A new Gensler-designed Executive Briefing Center at Hewlett-Packard Co.’s Palo Alto headquarters signifies HP’s renaissance, Chief Executive Meg Whitman said Jan. 16.
With a massive, craggy California oak...
Packard Foundation: Do As We Do
Forty-eight years after its founding, the Packard Foundation recommits to its mission
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By Mary Ann Azevedo
When the...
Silicon Valley Architects Recognize Best Work
By Sharon Simonson
Education and public spaces won big in the 2012 Design Awards of the Santa Clara Valley chapter of the American Institute of Architects.
“Sustaining Innovation” was the theme...
Facebook Campus Designed For Evolving Company Culture
By Sharon Simonson
Facebook leaders worried the company would lose its startup culture and distinct genetics when it left downtown Palo Alto. So they remade its new one-million-square-foot Menlo Park...
Revolutionary Workplace Challenges Next Century Landlords
| By Sharon Simonson |
Office owners face new attitudes and risks in the real estate of the 21st century, where easy change is the number-one priority and long-term leases for...
Facebook, Apple Embrace Great Architecture; Will Google?
| By Sharon Simonson |
Facebook’s decision to build a Frank Gehry-designed addition to its new Menlo Park headquarters marks a milestone for the social-networking company. But architects across the Bay...
Now We All Hold Hands
Integrated project delivery takes complex construction to the next level
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By Robert Celaschi
Drivers heading into San Francisco...
Google Names General Contractors for NASA Campus
By Sharon Simonson
Google Inc. has selected DPR Construction and Turner Construction Co. to build its proposed 1.1 million square-foot campus at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View.
The...
