Musings
Wonder Woman
Projects
Nike DIS
Visits
Six Observations After NeoCon 2017
Projects
Salone del Mobile
Musings
Congratulations to Cooper Hewitt’s 2017 National Design Award Winners
Musings
Happy Birthday, I.M. Pei
Projects
Cisco Buildings 3, 4, 20, 22, 23, 24
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.
Projects
Uber 555
Musings
Jon Makes Stuff
Projects
Kimball Showroom / NeoCon 2016
Projects
Cambridge Associates
Projects
LiveRamp
Visits
Art Underground
Projects
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
Musings
O+A Wins Cooper Hewitt National Design Award
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.
Visits
"Let's Try That Again…”
Musings
A Decade with Al
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.
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.
