Burlingame Point
An aerial precedent for multi-building corporate office campuses organized around central pedestrian spines and waterfront park integration.
- What we like about this project
- Ground-level sunken landscaped courtyards seamlessly bridge the parking and park levels.
Materials
- glass
- concrete
- metal-panels
- hardscape-pavers
- timber
Visual identifiers
- waterfront-campus
- central-pedestrian-axis
- glazed-office-blocks
- twilight-illumination
Style tags
- contemporary
- corporate
- master-plan
Visual tags
- corporate-campus
- waterfront
- master-planning
- urban-design
- twilight-shot
- Geometry
- Arrangement of four large multi-story office blocks oriented along a central pedestrian plaza perpendicular to the waterfront.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall with vertical fins or screening elements.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with concrete core and composite decks.
- Spatial scale
- Large multi-building corporate office campus with expansive central plazas and pedestrian scales at ground level.
- Lighting
- Twilight ambient light with warm interior illumination glowing through the glazed facades and integrated ground-plane path lighting.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and orderly corporate evening atmosphere defined by warm perimeter light against the dark water.
- Environmental context
- Waterfront campus adjacent to a bay edge with distant hillside development under an evening sky.
- Spatial experience
- The view looks across a landscaped waterfront esplanade into an axis of central courtyards flanked by illuminated office blocks.
- Composition rhythm
- Symmetrical central landscaped axis flanked by regular rectilinear building footprints.
- Style reading
- Contemporary corporate waterfront master plan
- Program
- Corporate headquarters campus
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, concrete, metal-panels, hardscape-pavers, timber
- Visual identifiers
- waterfront-campus, central-pedestrian-axis, glazed-office-blocks, twilight-illumination
- Style tags
- contemporary, corporate, master-plan
- Visual tags
- corporate-campus, waterfront, master-planning, urban-design, twilight-shot
- Geometry
- Arrangement of four large multi-story office blocks oriented along a central pedestrian plaza perpendicular to the waterfront.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall with vertical fins or screening elements.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with concrete core and composite decks.
- Spatial scale
- Large multi-building corporate office campus with expansive central plazas and pedestrian scales at ground level.
- Lighting
- Twilight ambient light with warm interior illumination glowing through the glazed facades and integrated ground-plane path lighting.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and orderly corporate evening atmosphere defined by warm perimeter light against the dark water.
- Environmental context
- Waterfront campus adjacent to a bay edge with distant hillside development under an evening sky.
- Spatial experience
- The view looks across a landscaped waterfront esplanade into an axis of central courtyards flanked by illuminated office blocks.
- Composition rhythm
- Symmetrical central landscaped axis flanked by regular rectilinear building footprints.
- Style reading
- Contemporary corporate waterfront master plan
- Program
- Corporate headquarters campus
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture