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TIDE Academy / LPA

Luciana Pejić — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 16:00:00 +0000

LPA designs for a three-story public high school in Menlo Park, California, a block from Meta’s (Facebook) headquarters, focus on supporting new ways of teaching STEAM (science, engineering, art, and mathematics). Located on a two-acre site in a rapidly changing industrial area, the campus promotes student choice, critical thinking, and inquiry-based learning, as well as the interdisciplinary instruction necessary to support STEAM curriculums

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

Eric Baldwin — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 08:00:00 +0000

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

Daniel Sánchez — Sun, 01 Nov 2015 12:00:00 +0000

This project consists of a single-story addition and renovation to an existing mid-century ranch house in Menlo Park, California.

Low/Rise House / SAW // Spiegel Aihara Workshop

Cristian Aguilar — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Menlo Oaks Residence / Ana Williamson Architect

Daniel Sánchez — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 00:00:00 +0000

At first blush, the existing house on this site in Menlo Park, CA was not worth saving. It had been a rental for many years, was wildly overgrown and had fallen into disrepair. Fortunately, the new homeowners could see past its current state. They fell in love with the old world charm of the house, especially its fireplaces and coved ceilings. The location of the site gave them a feel of living in a remote area yet close to modern conveniences. After having gone through two previous “tear downs”, they also looked forward to the challenges that would come with working around existing constraints.

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

James Taylor-Foster — Sun, 06 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Venture Capital Office Headquarters / Paul Murdoch Architects

Jonathan Alarcón — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The project goal was to create an office headquarters for a clean technology venture capital firm in Menlo Park, CA. Because the site is on some of the most expensive commercial real estate in North America, optimizing use of the property was critical. The program includes 12,500 SF of office space in two stories over a podium to provide parking for fifty cars. A conditional use permit was required for this total building area. Strict setbacks and a height limit meant working within a restricted zoning envelope.

Bal House / Terry & Terry Architecture

Kritiana Ross — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000

This project was designed for a retiring couple, and necessitated the need for accessible space. The project ties the new addition in the rear garden area to an existing mid century ranch house by way of a transparent hallway that provides accessibility to the existing structure and allows the garden to extend into the core of the house.