Creative Outlets
What Not to Miss at NYCxDesign
Projects
Cisco Buildings 3, 4, 20, 22, 23, 24
Musings
Happy Birthday, I.M. Pei
Projects
Uber 555
Musings
Ciao Milano!
The crowds that throng Milan for the city’s annual furniture fair know they are part of a tribal celebration—the tribe being the international community of design. Like show business and politics, design is a small, self-contained world, and when the denizens of that world get together for a bash the importance of individual effort to large communal movements becomes clear.
Musings
Jon Makes Stuff
Projects
Ideapaint Pop-Up
Visits
Art Underground
Projects
Kimball Showroom / NeoCon 2016
O+A designs Kimball Office's Chicago showroom for the third year. To confront the challenge of redesigning the same space for a third time, our designers explored the meaning of place.
Uncategorized
Meet You at the Watercooler
Projects
Cambridge Associates
Projects
LiveRamp
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IIDA Pop-Up / NeoCon 2016
Conversations
Sharing the Light
Projects
Uber 5
This 5th floor “Paris,” much like its counterpart in France, is an assembly of distinct neighborhoods, laid out as if for a culture of flaneurs, but overlaid with modern energy and drive.
Conversations
Tapping into Gary Hustwit
Projects
Nike
Visits
"Let's Try That Again…”
Projects
55 Hawthorne
This idea of a common forum for international markets became the design inspiration for Yelp’s offices at 55 Hawthorne in San Francisco. Each floor springs from the textures and moods of a particular market in a city where Yelp has a significant presence.
Musings
O+A Wins Cooper Hewitt National Design Award
Projects
Alibaba
Located on the 26th floor of one of San Francisco’s Art Deco masterpieces—the old PacBell Building, built in 1925—Alibaba’s new office mixes modern austerity with refinements from a more ornamental age.
Musings
A Decade with Al
Projects
Uber 11
When Uber acquired the 11th floor, an initial concern was how could people on the 11th feel any sense of community or shared purpose with people seven floors below?
Visits
Horsemen, Monks, and Zombie Cities
Projects
Cisco Systems
When Cisco decided to remodel its multi-structure campus in San Jose, a key requirement was to support the company’s Connected Workplace model.
Conversations
Start Spreading the News...
After 25 years in the Bay Area, we want to be a part of it. With a new home on a little island about 3,000 miles to the east, Studio O+A is officially bi-coastal.
Projects
Kimball Showroom
With the El and the Chicago River right outside the window Kimball's space at NeoCon 2015 buzzed with urban energy even before the showroom was installed.
