Astro Gaming is a leading gaming company with specializes in designing gaming headsets. Their headquarters in San Fransisco, California consists of some tenants that house the whole team of the company. The industrial interior design of those tenants is designed by Costa Brown Architecture. The interior of all tenants in this San Fransisco HQ is designed in industrial.
The characteristic of the industrial interior such as pipes on the concrete ceiling can be seen easily. Costa Brown also exposes the wooden wall and adding more modern touches with the glass door and big lightings. With the open plan, the large open space inside the building is divided into some areas for each company division. This plan is also about organizing the furniture, including the desks near the windows that can give easy access to get natural light for employees. The building space turns into a more comfortable space.
The exterior wall design is large and curved, it looks contrast with the faceted acoustic panels. These panels can denote the building space and also the sawtooth office of the company. The conference rooms are also designed with those panels, guide all occupants to the office space. The tenant interiors of this building consist of conference rooms, offices, kitchen, gaming area, and also a receptionist. Each room is designed with the same industrial style, a space with a grey atmosphere that comes from the concrete floor and ceiling. The different thing can be seen in each room lighting design which is unique and also interesting to be seen.
Luminaire: BionicPro Series
Digital Fuel.
Step into the new NETSCOUT: an elevated workplace destination thoughtfully and modernly designed to fuel the digital and smart data company’s mission as “guardians of the connected world.” Corgan partnered with NETSCOUT to create a space which enables their employees to thrive by connecting to the brand, promoting collaboration and reinvigorating the company’s culture. To achieve this, upon entry, the iconic logo against a warm wood backdrop sets the tone for a contemporary, playful, and grounded space while a signature abstract overhead light fixture creates an intuitive pathway to guide employees and visitors throughout the space. Within the workspace, energy and collaboration are encouraged through layered work zones and meeting spaces, allowing employees to generate high-quality solutions while maintaining virtual and physical security protocols. Supporting NETSCOUT’s forward-thinking DNA and business priorities of “visibility without borders,” Corgan designed a space for NETSCOUT that reflects their core values and functionality with added features to support current and future talent.
Warm and Inviting.
This successful relocation of 168,000 SF corporate headquarters proved to be the perfect opportunity to create the highly transparent, collaborative and branded environment desired by GGP.
Fostering a democratic approach to sharing the daylight, private offices, and conference rooms are internalized while most employees sit near the glass line. Low-height furnishings ensure unobstructed views, allowing for an abundance of natural light throughout the space, and team collaborative areas occupy the space normally reserved for prestigious corner offices. A centralized conference center, along with interchangeable private offices and smaller meeting rooms, provides for future flexibility; a mandatory consideration in the eyes of this forward-thinking organization and today’s ever-changing office environment.
Strategically placed communal “Hubs” create a common area on each floor that’s designed to gather, promote impromptu meetings, encourage a culture of teamwork and foster knowledge sharing. Ordered with an elegant palette of white walls, warm wood ceilings with BionicPro2 Linear fixtures, with BionicPro Perimeter lighting systems for soft vertical illumination intermixed with some wall grazing that highlight this logical and structured environment. The design solution weaves the interactive areas and mix of workspace types together to create an intuitive system of wayfinding over this 3-floor project.
Check out a video of the project from the contractor, Skender.
Skylight Stunner.
If you happen upon the newly-opened Westwood Blvd. office space for the Terasaki Research Institute for organ transplant research, you can’t help but look up. The gleaming, metallic-finish skylight draws the eye toward its reflective sheen, then across the vertical surfaces with its ever-changing light-and-shadow effects dancing on the walls – and finally, to the floor where similar light play is happening.
The recessed alcove is illuminated with our Bionic perimeter, and complemented by additional LED lights in the ceiling that change colors for added visual interest. Recessed linear fixtures provide the functional lighting on multiple levels throughout the airy atrium.
This stunner of a space is named for the late Dr. Paul Terasaki, renowned trailblazer in the life-saving organ transplant field and recipient of the UCLA Medal, the university’s highest honor. The building houses a sleek, modern medical bookstore at street level, and 20 office spaces where experts will continue to make significant strides in organ transplant research.
Office Wow!
Cassidy Turley, a leading commercial real estate services provider in Boston, wanted a fresh, youthful and sophisticated look for their new office space at One International Place, which features expansive views to the Boston Harbor. As real estate professionals, making a great first impression with clients is critical.
HLB Lighting Design worked with Spagnolo Gisness & Associates to create a streamlined lighting concept for the offices. Concentric glowing lines of light were used at clear glass conference walls and feature walls, defining space where walls didn’t exist, and allowing the eye to travel through to the harbor views beyond. Miniature rimless recessed LED accent lights nearly disappear in the drywall ceiling above, while the eye is drawn to textured walls grazed with light and signature decorative fixtures. The overall effect for clients is “wow”.
Bionic Perimeter and Recessed fixtures were chosen with PRU Wall Grazer optics to highlight and accent the textured wall details.
Sky Glow.
Bionic Linear fixtures with Top Glow uplight and Batwing distributions illuminate Arbor Heights classrooms while our P4000 Sky rounds decorate the multi-purpose room.
Batwing luminaires offer a wider, more even distribution of light, often allowing for wider spacing between rows of fixtures, thus cutting down initial fixture and installation cost, lowering energy needs. The Top Glow lens creates a visual highlight along the top of the luminaire for visual interest.
The driving concept for Arbor Heights School is Environmental Learning from Sea to Sky – a synthesis of the school’s pioneering Environmental Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (E-STEM) program. The project not only replaced the existing school, it doubled its capacity while providing additional outdoor space. The school serves as a landmark for the surrounding community with the increased greenspace, in addition to accessibility to the commons, gym, and library.
The original topography was restored to provide welcoming, at-grade access and sightlines from both streets, connect the school to the neighborhood, and improve security and stormwater management. Diverse site features encourage physical activity, casual and structured play, social interaction, and outdoor learning. Ecosystem-based themes define different zones within the preK-5 school – natural habitats and elements are illustrated with large images that depict how these concepts are embedded in nature.
Six Learning Communities are designed to accommodate the various E-STEM programs and support collaboration spaces and makerspaces. Practical sustainability strategies are embedded as building-based learning examples through daylight control, natural cooling and ventilation, and an exposed rainwater management system that tells the story of how water travels through the site.
The design supports the specific needs of 21st century learning; is cost and energy-efficient, highly flexible, durable, and sustainable; and will serve as a beacon for the community for generations to come.
Serenity Transplant.
The Terasaki Research Institute is a nonprofit organization founded by the late Dr. Paul Terasaki, a pioneer of modern organ transplant technology. House & Robertson acted as executive architects for the Institute’s new 15,500-sq.-ft. headquarters, completed in mid-2017 near the UCLA campus. Atelier Hitoshi Abe’s innovative design for this two-story-plus-basement facility, confined by taller buildings on two sides, brings natural light into the interior office spaces and flexible meeting areas. This was accomplished via two interior courtyards capped by translucent roofs constructed of tensioned cable structures clad with PTFE synthetic resin membranes, with polished chrome oculi at their centers. The existing historical front facade of cast-in-place concrete was updated with new finishes and a reconfigured storefront and custom-fabricated aluminum entry canopy.
According to architect Hitoshi Abe, Dr. Paul I. Terasaki, a scientist and philanthropist, loved three things: his Japanese heritage; the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), his alma mater and longtime employer; and his ground-breaking research on human tissue typing, a process critical to the success of organ transplants. The late doctor’s three passions come together in Abe’s newest project, the Terasaki Research Institute, a serene, inviting facility near UCLA’s campus that serves as the public face and headquarters of the namesake scientific organization.
Collaborative Journey.
Ernest S. McBride, Sr. High School has been acclaimed as an environmentally friendly and high-performing school. Throughout the design and construction of this campus, LPA’s team consistently focused on using green design to craft a true 21st century learning facility. As a result, McBride High has many features that address energy use, water management, indoor air quality and more—all to benefit the students and staff at Long Beach’s newest high school.
Many sustainable features have been incorporated into the design of the K-12 campus, including energy-efficient, central-plant HVAC coupled with building orientation and window locations that are refined to minimize heat gain—saving energy on cooling and heating. In addition, a 277-kilowatt rooftop grid-tied photovoltaic system is predicted to meet up to 60 percent of the estimated site energy use.
The 150,000-square-foot facility has received recognition by the Collaborative for High Performance Schools (CHPS) verified program. It also exceeds California Title 24 2008 standards by approximately 40 percent and the 2030 Challenge benchmark by 75 percent, well ahead of the current 2030 Commitment levels.
Gridlocked.
Global architecture and design firm Perkins + Will designed stunning headquarters for Newell Rubbermaid in Atlanta, Georgia. P+W wanted a slot fixture that perfectly fit the Armstrong TechZone 6 ceilings, filling the entire aperture with light and selected Prudential Lighting’s P53. Designed to fit precisely in an Armstrong TechZone 4˝ or 6˝ system, the P33 & P53 maximize aperture size for a clean and simple aesthetic.
The property is right-sized for the more mobile, more technically-enabled company that Newell is becoming. The new space reflects the brand–led, innovative company that Newell is and will be purpose-fit for how employees work today and into the future.
“We are transforming Newell into a faster growing, more profitable, more global company,” said Newell Rubbermaid President and Chief Executive Officer Michael Polk. “We have made great progress strengthening our brands and accelerating performance, and our new headquarters work space will be collaborative, mobile, technology-enabled and more productive than our current headquarters.”
River Undulations.
The Old Main Addition adds 45,000-square-feet of academic teaching and office space atop an existing 1960s-era building on the campus of Thompson Rivers University (TRU) in Kamloops, British Columbia. The campus overlooks the North and South Thompson Rivers and a range of softly rolling mountains beyond. The natural surroundings and First Nations heritage that inform TRU’s identity inspired the design of the Addition.
The undulating roof echoes the landscape while integrating two new floors with the mechanical penthouse of the original Old Main. The two lower, existing floors have been re-clad in curving bands that suggest First Nations craft traditions. The bands bow outwards to form two cedar-clad canopies that reinforce the wave pattern of the roofline. This knitting of the old and new radically transforms the previously non-descript building into a home for the first new Law School in Canada in 30 years and TRU’s MBA program.
At the centre of the Addition is a double-height atrium connecting two wings lined with teaching spaces on the south and the law library and offices on the north. Full-height glazing connects the atrium and adjacent reading room that share a dramatic view of the sweeping ceiling, complemented by a sculptural spiral stair.
“Light really brought it to life, and imbued it with feeling,” Chan said. “Standing out there, especially in the winter, with the moon above, it’s just magical.”