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The Green House / Schwartz and Architecture

Hadir Al Koshta — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 19:00:00 +0000

The original home, before our renovation and addition, was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright's protégé, Aaron Green, and built by Echler Homes in 1966. In 1951, Frank Lloyd Wright hired Green as his West Coast representative, allowing him to continue his independent practice out of their joint office.

Eichler House / Gustave Carlson Design

Paula Pintos — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 15:00:00 +0000

Architect-artist Gustave Carlson — whose eponymous residential architecture and design practice works on custom renovations, new construction, and sustainable design across architectural styles — adapted an unusually pedigreed 'Eichler,' the collective name for the distinctive single-family residences commissioned by the 20th-century real estate developer Joseph Eichler, to the current homeowners' vision, while paying homage to its groundbreaking origins.

Stanford University School of Medicine Center for Academic Medicine / HOK

Valeria Silva — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 16:00:00 +0000

HOK designed the Stanford Center for Academic Medicine to provide respite for staff that works long hours in hospitals and clinics. It also accommodates their academic and research endeavors. The facility includes offices, conference rooms, collaboration, and education spaces, a fitness center, and a restaurant-style café. HOK’s team helped the medical school’s leaders plan their new office space and develop a detailed program that would accommodate all clinical faculty and staff in a highly collaborative work environment.

Art House / Buttrick Projects Architecture+Design

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 16:00:00 +0000

This residential project involved the construction of three distinct structures, creating additional interior space and forming a private courtyard for an existing house that remains in place. The largest new structure, the Art House, is designed to house a burgeoning art collection, and accommodate occasional guests.

Innovation Curve Technology Park at Stanford Research Park / Form4 Architecture

Collin Chen — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 21:00:00 +0000

The 13.5-acre Innovation Curve Technology Park at Stanford Research Park, designed by San Francisco-based Form4 Architecture, serves as a hub for technology industry professionals and the greater Silicon Valley community. The newly completed LEED Platinum-certified 288,000-square-foot project contributes to the site’s reputation as an aspirational campus for tenants involved with computer gaming, translation software, and digital inventions. Form4’s lyrical design incorporates the tech industry’s “evolution of innovation” curve on the buildings’ façades, serving as potent visual reminders of the dedicated, expansive, and intense work taking place inside.

The Sanctuary House / Feldman Architecture

Paula Pintos — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 18:00:00 +0000

The clients of The Sanctuary, recent empty-nesters planning ahead to retirement, hoped to downsize and simplify in the design of their new Palo Alto home. When the clients purchased the property, an old wooden fence across the front yard and the original house closed off the site from the street. Behind this rough and aged presentation, however, was an urban refuge of lush vegetation throughout the deep lot. This sense of discovery served as the original inspiration for the design of the house and directed both architect and client to its culmination.

Cache Me if You Can Installation / FreelandBuck

Paula Pintos — Thu, 19 Dec 2019 01:00:00 +0000

The project, commissioned by the City of Palo Alto, is a three-dimensional, materialized image documenting the life of the plaza over the course of one day. Moving around the structure and then inside, the 20 printed surfaces chart the course of one day, May 31s t, 2019, describing the activity that took place, the changing light levels and shifting shadow patterns. The triangular panels are perforated in a variable pattern based on the same images. At night, the pavilion is lit from the interior causing the holes to glow and creating a new set of images of King Plaza.

Waverley House / Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney Architects

Andreas Luco — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 19:00:00 +0000

Designed for a young couple, the 5,000 sf home and 1,700 sf back house sit on a flat 21,000 sf lot in a 1920’s Palo Alto neighborhood. The architecture is a study in strong simple composition and highly refined materiality with an emphasis on craft. The massing defines solid and void, captures natural light, and connects the indoors with the landscape, seeking to ‘experience the outdoors from within.’

Tree House / Aidlin Darling Design

Paula Pintos — Sun, 14 Jul 2019 12:00:00 +0000

Anchored by monumental coastal live oaks and majestic redwoods, this modest sustainably designed suburban home offers expansive living spaces that extend into the landscape. The owner brought specific criteria to the design process that would ultimately personalize its outcome.

Stanford Apple Store / Bohlin Cywinski Jackson

Rayen Sagredo — Tue, 02 May 2017 12:00:00 +0000

Apple has always demonstrated its immense appreciation for design, whether in the hands of the customer or in the manner through which they present their products in store. Located uniquely within the Palo Alto Shopping Center, this pavilion respects the expectations of the brand while introducing new and evolutionary ways to reinterpret 13 years of tradition.

Stanford University Central Energy Facility / ZGF Architects

Florencia Mena — Mon, 25 Apr 2016 13:00:00 +0000

Stanford University has just completed a transformational campus-wide energy system— replacing a 100% fossil-fuel-based combined heat and power plant with grid-sourced electricity and a first-of-its-kind heat recovery system. Positioning Stanford as a national leader in energy efficiency and carbon reduction, the results are impressive: greenhouse gas emissions are slashed by 68%; fossil fuel use by 65%; and campus-wide water use by 15%. This comprehensive Stanford Energy System Innovation (SESI) initiative will eliminate 150,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually, the equivalent of removing 32,000 cars from the road every year. Expected energy savings to Stanford over 35 years is $425 million.

Skype HQ / Design Blitz

Jonathan Alarcón — Thu, 15 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Skype’s primary goal was to create a world-class office that would differentiate them from their Bay Area competitors in the recruitment of talent. Their new space not only had to be a design statement that reflected their modern but fun personality, but it also had to meet very specific acoustic requirements to support the company’s extensive use of AV. Skype hired Design Blitz architects to design their new North American headquarters on an aggressive budget and schedule.

TP-H Residence / Jermyn Manthripragada

Fernanda Castro — Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Freidenrich Center for Translational Research / WRNS Studio

Daniel Sánchez — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 01:00:00 +0000

The new Jill and John Freidenrich Center for Translational Research at Stanford University’s School of Medicine provides a home for innovative, collaborative, and interdisciplinary clinical and translational research. It is the first completed piece in the School of Medicine’s plan to transform some of its medical center properties from a parcel-zoned, suburban land use to a more integrated, pedestrian-focused campus.

AOL Offices / Studio O+A

Andrew Rosenberg — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0000

AOL launched a company-wide initiative to adapt to changes in online culture—which the company had been instrumental in creating in the first place. As part of this effort, AOL moved its West Coast headquarters to a new corporate space in Palo Alto and brought in Studio O+A to give the office a fresh design.

Facebook Offices / O+A Studio

David Basulto — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0000

A few weeks ago we presented you photos from architectural offices that our readers shared through Facebook. And now, we bring to you the Facebook offices in Palo Alto, designed by Studio O+A.