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Furniture House Brings Big Design to Silicon Valley
By Sharon Simonson One Workplace wants to change its world. It is starting with the past, adapting a 1950s-era paper-manufacturing plant on the...
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. THIS...
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...
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...
Packard Foundation: Do As We Do
Forty-eight years after its founding, the Packard Foundation recommits to its mission THIS ARTICLE WAS PUBLISHED IN THE ‘Q’ – THE REGISTRY’S PRINT PUBLICATION –...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Now We All Hold Hands
Integrated project delivery takes complex construction to the next level THIS ARTICLE WAS PUBLISHED IN THE ‘Q’ – THE REGISTRY’S PRINT PUBLICATION – IN JULY...
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...
Change Agent
Reconceiving architecture and the urban environment as inherently impermanent THIS ARTICLE WAS PUBLISHED IN THE ‘Q’ – THE REGISTRY’S PRINT PUBLICATION – IN APRIL 2012...
