The "renovation" of the existing structure.

Brendan Madden, the building owner/user working with us to select the brick palette

Rendering.

In situ.

A handsome and well detailed palette.

Front entrance.

Lobby

The double high office

Lunch / meeting room.

Private office

Open office

Floor plan

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Tom Sawyer Software

Berkeley, California 2012

This project, by means of a major renovation and expansion, re-purposes a hundred year old structure for use as headquarters for an international software development company. While essentially a new building, the facades strongly recall the scale and proportion of the existing building, maintaining its place in the context of an established neighborhood.

The interior, by contrast, speaks to the nature of the work which occurs within and is quite modern.

The building incorporates a variety of resource saving strategies and technologies so as to achieve the team’s sustainability goals.

Cutsheet for Tom Sawyer

Credits

Owner: Tom Sawyer Software
Architect: Robert Nishimori, David Trachtenberg, Neven Krickovic, Isaiah Stackhouse
Structural Engineer: Jeffrey Weber and Associates
MEP Engineer: Timmons Design Engineers
General Contractor: Kaufman Construction Inc.
Landscape Architect: Garden Architecture

Budget: $800k