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TIDE Academy / LPA

April 26, 2022

Architects: LPA
Year: 2019
Manufacturers: AutoDesk, Dri-Design, 3form, Arcadia Custom, ICI Scientific, +2PPG, Solatube-2
Professionals: LPA, CM Salter, Cummings Corp, Corner Stone Earth

Facebook Expands Menlo Park Headquarters with MPK 21 Building by Gehry Partners

September 06, 2018

Gehry Partners recently completed Facebook's new MPK 21 building in Menlo Park, California. Expanding the company's existing footprint, the design was built in less than 18 months as a highly sustainable building. Formed to bring the outdoors into the office space, the project centers on a sheltered green space with 40-foot-tall redwood trees and an amphitheater-style courtyard that connects to the original Gehry-designed MPK 20 building.

Bal House / Terry & Terry Architecture

November 01, 2015

+ 9

Architects: Terry & Terry Architecture: Terry & Terry Architecture
Area: 2000 ft²
Year: 2011
Manufacturers: Grohe, Acor, Benjamin Moore, Emerald Steel, Fleetwood, +10Hafele, Holiday Kitchens, Johns Manville, Le Corbusier, Lissoni, Lumiere Lighting, Omnia Industries, Penofin, Tobias Grau, Toto-10
Professionals: Timberline Construction, Santos Urrutia Structural Engineers Inc.

Low/Rise House / SAW // Spiegel Aihara Workshop

April 04, 2014

+ 20

Architects: SAW // Spiegel Aihara Workshop
Area: 4500 ft²
Professionals: Active Integration, Hunner Associates, Monterey Energy Group, Murray Engineers, SAW // Spiegel Aihara Workshop, +2

Menlo Oaks Residence / Ana Williamson Architect

November 27, 2013

+ 11

Architects: Ana Williamson Architect
Area: 4018 m²
Year: 2009

If Skyscrapers Predict Crises, What Do "Donuts" Tell Us?

October 06, 2013

In a recent article for the Financial Times, Edwin Heathcote explores the 'Skyscraper Index', an informal term that suggests a correlation between the construction of a big company's ambitious headquarters and subsequent financial crisis: "Think of the Empire State Building opening into the Wall Street crash of 1929, the Twin Towers being completed as New York City was flirting with bankruptcy or the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur taking the mantle of the world’s tallest building and presaging the Asian financial crisis." Heathcote goes on to describe the latest generation of headquarters being constructed for our current, tech-oriented goliaths - like Apple's monolithic "donut", by Foster + Partners, and Facebook's Gehry-designed Menlo Park campus - and wonders: "if skyscrapers can tell us something about the temperature of an overheating economy, what do these groundscraping new HQs say?" Read the full article here.