Silicon Graphics: STUDIOS Architecture creates a master plan and its first building for a Northern California corporate headquarters. (Design in California)

Interior Design, April, 1990 by Cohen, Edie Lee

STUDIOS Architecture creates a master plan and its first building for a Northern California corporate headquarters.

The client, Silicon Graphics Computer Systems, iS a rapidly growing manufacturer of computer work stations with a growth program to match. Its commission, offered to the winner of six competing West Coast firms, entailed development of a master plan for corporate headquarters on a 340,000-sq.-ft. site in the Northern California setting of Mountain View. in scope, the comprehensive project called for the phased build-out of several shell buildings plus completion of the first of the series. illustrated on these three spreads is the initial construction, a concrete shell with a steel flooring system that encompasses 90,000 sq. ft. on two floors. It...

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