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Project Location:  Financial District, San Francisco

Project Size:  7060SF

Date completed:  November 2007

Client:  Amazon Advertising

Contact:  Millie Olsen - CEO and Co-Founder [www.amazonadv.com]

Additional Information:

Amazon Advertising was started by two very creative directors who were both tall and female and as they like to say, that is when things started to get really interesting. They have become a group with a large and diverse global clientele that ranges from Kashi and Mondavi Wines to Jamba Juice and Beach Blanket Babylon to Harley Davidson and Wells Fargo. Their work is intelligent, daring, often intoxicating and always very humorous. We were asked to design their new offices within a 19th century industrial warehouse building located in the Jackson Square Historic District of San Francisco. Our goal was to create an environment that further encourages and enhances creative and innovative thinking, team work and boldly reinforce Amazon’s constant search for the Holy Grail of Truth, Love and Advertising.

To enhance the eclectic nature of Amazon’s culture the office was organized around a centrally located open kitchen and break area where staff can collaborate while enjoying their favorite beverage and snack - easily doubling as a flexible all hands area for meetings and informal social gatherings.

The raw organic space of concrete floors, masonry bearing walls, concrete columns and high ceilings contrasts with the modernist vocabulary of large expanses of frameless glazing and white walls at the private offices and meeting rooms. New energy efficient indirect lighting is incorporated throughout. The space also incorporates low height built-in sculptural partitions creating a series of two person teaming areas. Amazon inspired accent colors were used sparingly throughout the space culminating with a stripe of chartreuse floor covering that starts at the lobby and continues through the length of the entire space.