Overlapping planes and dynamic angles animate this Financial District office suite of a global business consulting firm. Recessed lighting accentuates the distinctive ceiling treatment without detracting from the remarkable San Francisco Bay views.
Location: San Francisco, California
Architect: Gensler
Photographer: Jason O’Rear
Location: San Francisco, California
Architect: Mark Cavagnero Associates
Interiors: The Wiseman Group
Photographer: Matthew Millman
BLLD's design for this Los Angeles-based investment management firm incorporates non-traditional lighting strategies without taking away from the functional needs of the space. Decorative light fixtures add sparkle to the common areas, creating an elevated experience for both visitors and employees.
Location: Los Angeles, California
Architect: Gensler
Photographer: Ryan Gobuty
The headquarters for the fast-growing gaming company occupies nine stories in the heart of San Francisco’s financial district. A gamer's paradise, the offices include two six-person competitive gaming rooms, two live-streaming rooms, and references throughout to games and pop culture. A coffee bar and kitchen serve staff and visitors, and an arcade is filled with old-school video games, pinball games and board games.
Location: San Francisco, California
Architect: Brereton Architects
Photographer: Bruce Damonte Photography
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An IES Award winner for ‘Energy and Environmental Design.’ This new flagship innovation hub located in the Salesforce Tower is a striking five-story state-of-the-art collaboration space designed to meld the latest in technology and advanced thinking. The modern, dynamic, and collaborative spaces use lighting as a key element within the architecture to highlight and accent without interrupting panoramic views over San Francisco.
“Pioneering new ways to work and apply technology innovation” was the project directive given to the design team. To achieve these lofty goals, advanced controls, heat mapping/occupant sensing, and daylight harvesting were implemented as design strategies. A harmonious balance was struck between the need for time-appropriate light levels and the optimal visual, mental, and biological health that was mandated. The use of a circadian lighting design strategy allowed the two opposing elements to function as one cohesively. This resulted in a completed project where both LEED Platinum Certification and WELL Building Certification were awarded.
Lighting plays a critical role in the success of this project from both design and technical standpoints. The design team was able to embrace the location, sun exposure, glare control, visual balance, and harness these elements through the use of advanced lighting strategies and control systems in order to have a successful outcome.
Location: San Francisco, California
Architect: Gensler
Photography: Connie Zhou
Gensler’s design brief for the music arm of a large tech company was to create a high-energy office space across six floors and roughly 140,000 sq ft.
The high-contrast full-height wall graphics along the core circulation corridor are brought to life using adjustable LED monopoints.
Circulating around the core, visitors are presented with brightly finished art and conversation niches. The niche backdrops are softly illuminated with a continuous LED cove and pinhole downlights to provide both direct and indirect lighting. At communal gathering points, brassy repurposed instruments are complemented by matching decorative pendants.
The project’s feature staircase is entirely illuminated by architecturally-integrated LED lighting. The low-voltage LED fixture at the handrailing was custom engineered to fit within the custom railing’s square profile. The bright blue fins and bulkheads are also highlighted to provide more vertical illumination to the staircase while accentuating the architecture.
Location: San Francisco, California
Architect: Gensler
Photography: Ryan Gobuty
This project is the largest headquarters built for this industry-leading high-tech company in the Bay Area. Our lighting team was responsible for designing every single space in the 16-story high-rise building, including all amenities, offices and lab spaces.
Location: San Francisco, California
Architect: Gensler
Size: 355,000 square feet
Value: $175,000,000
LEED Gold certified
Photography: Brian Ashby
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Prime 59 is a special collection of spaces that together form a one-of-a-kind experience high above the San Francisco fog. The 14,000sf lounge/conference center was designed as a refined, comfortable, and low-key environment to negotiate high-stakes deals. Open lounges transition to private conference rooms that are meant to evoke a feeling of high-end dining rooms, private one-on-one conversation quarters, and even a speakeasy-themed bar. The lighting approach to Prime 59 reinforces the architectural mission of the project: the creation of a relaxing environment that facilitates deal-making at the highest level. Working closely with IwamotoScott Architecture, BLLD used lighting to accentuate and feature the project’s rich palette of finishes to bring the space to life.
Location: San Francisco, California
Architect: IwamotoScott
Photography: Bruce Damonte
This 19,000 sq ft global business consulting office suite is a study in translucency and minimalism.
The high-contrast bands of black-painted mechanical ducting offset the clean white ceiling planes.
Vertical planes throughout the project are illuminated by linear LED grazing fixtures which highlight the reception area, provide a comfortably illuminated niche in the café and accentuate the frosted glass gradient wall that separates the reception from the café.
Despite sophisticated lighting design goals, BLLD designed to a connected lighting load of only 0.45 W/SF to achieve the maximum allowable number of LEED points.
Location: San Francisco, California
Architect: Gensler
Photography: Jason O’Rear
Banks Landl Lighting Design was invited to light the public-facing spaces of this mid-rise Class A office tower located South of Market. A pedestrian alleyway with plantings and artwork cuts through, giving access to the neighboring Transbay Terminal. Inside, a double-height lobby allows access to the upper floors of this, the first LEED Core and Shell Platinum office structure in San Francisco.
Location: San Francisco, California
Architect: HOK
Photography: Bob Fawcett, Peak 15 Photography
We were honored to receive the lighting industry's highest honor, the GE Edison Award, for its work on the Square headquarters project. Read more about this achievement here.
Mobile payments startup Square, Inc.'s new Market Street headquarters is designed to be open and collaborative. With a massive 175,000 SF footprint of usable space and spanning the length of an entire city block, the design team was challenged to make the space feel hospitable while accommodating for future company growth. We worked with the architects to create office interiors echoing the company's core values of modern and functional design.
Lighting plays an important role in determining way-finding and helping to define "communities" within the expansive space, as well as providing the feeling of daylight throughout the floor plate.
Location: San Francisco, California
Architect: Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
Photography: Matthew Millman
2014 GE Edison Award
2014 GE Edison Award of Excellence
2014 GE Edison Award for Environmental Design
2014 IESNA Illumination Award of Merit
2014 IESNA San Francisco Section Award
Located in the heart of San Francisco's SoMa neighborhood, this technology firm’s newest office space is meant to inspire forward thinking. The space houses its research and development team as well as special events and product releases. Our team was commissioned to design all spaces in such a way that it would not read as a typical office space.
Location: San Francisco, California
Architect: Gensler
Photography: Jasper Sanidad Photography
This elegant, modern office space was created for a Silicon Valley law firm on famed Sand Hill Road. The mix of open and private offices, conference rooms and a cafe/lounge serve both the staff and their clients, drawn from technology companies and investment firms.
Location: Menlo Park, California
Architect: Gensler
Photography: Joe Fletcher
Sitting atop a 52-story skyscraper in San Francisco are the renovated and expanded offices of this global investment firm. The building housing this prestigious financial-service firm is a landmark, the second-tallest building in the city and a focal point in the Financial District.
The architects aimed to remodel the interiors into contemporary spaces with pristine materials including expansive wood ceilings and walls, honed stone floors and glass panels. Lighting plays an important role in highlighting the geometric, minimal design approach. Our team dealt with tough time constraints, budget issues and structural challenges to help create this dramatic, memorable space.
Location: San Francisco, California
Architect: Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
Photography: Matthew Millman
2013 GE Edison Award of Excellence
2013 IESNA Illumination Award of Merit
2013 IESNA San Francisco Section Award
2013 IIDA Northern California Honor Award
This ten-story office building is located in a densely built section of Hangzhou, adjacent to a park. Placed above street level, and set apart from surrounding buildings, the slim building has greater presence than might otherwise be the case. The facade is clad in copper, with smaller copper elements framing the windows. A column-free floor plan allows each floor to consist of one large space, arranged like a ring around the central core. Oak clads the core walls and the floors.
Location: Hangzhou, China
Architect: David Chipperfield Architects
Photographer: Simon Menges
United Business Media helps businesses do business by connecting them with a targeted, qualified audience through live events, press releases and other digital and print media. Their culture of innovation and collaboration brings people together around common interests to create value, enhancing their ability to do the same for UBM customers and the communities UBM serves. With that in mind, the lighting design was developed to be perceived as warm, playful and refreshing.
Location: San Francisco, California
Architect: Gensler
Photography: Nic Lehoux, Chad Ziemendorf
2013 Illumination Award of Merit, IESNA
The new US Bank Tower in Sacramento, California transformed the face of the city and helps define the skyline. The building is located along the Capitol Mall, the premier business address in the region. It is in the heart of downtown and just three blocks from the state capitol. The 25-story Class A high-rise office building features a grand seven-level, open lobby, aluminum and glass exterior and distinctive façade lighting designed to dramatically highlight its crown and flatter the central business district skyline.
Location: Sacramento, California
Interior Designer: HOK
Photography: John Swain
2009 GE Edison Award of Excellence
2009 Illumination Award of Merit, IESNA
The Symantec boardroom was designed to provide cutting-edge technology for strategy sessions between Symantec's top management and technical executives.
Strict requirements of vertical lighting for video-conferencing and seamless integration with architecture were the lighting designers' initial criteria for creating the backlit ceiling. Challenges included selecting the appropriate diffusing material to optimize the lumen output, avoiding reflection on TV monitors, meeting energy codes, and complementing the refinement of the interiors. Along with the diffusing material, appropriate cavity depth and spacing between fluorescent lamps determined the success of the lighting design. To reduce contrast with the background, the entire perimeter was softly illuminated.
Location: Cupertino, California
Interior Designer: HOK
Photography: David Wakely
2008 IESNA Illumination Award of Merit
Lighting design that is simple, sleek and unobtrusive complements the elegant details and finishes of this corporate office in San Francisco.
Linear luminaires emanate directly, indirectly and a combination of both depending on the function of each space. Recessed vertical linears add character and visual interest to a core-bound corridor; an interesting deviation from a typical corridor downlighting.
Location: San Francisco, California
Architect: Gensler
Photography: Jason O’Rear
A commercial office that used elements from iconic design eras is complemented with a novel approach to open office lighting. The team leaned forward to a hospitality-driven and decorative heavy lighting design that aligns to the dynamic and aesthetic character of the concept. The project produced a holistic quality by combining the welcoming atmosphere of hospitality design merged with functionality of an effective office space.
Location: Los Angeles, California
Architect: Gensler
Photography: Benny Chan and Ryan Gobut
Location: San Francisco, California
Architect: Gensler
Location: Madison, Wisconsin
Architect: EUA Architects
Photographer: Darris Lee Harris
Location: San Francisco, California
Architect: Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
Photography: Adam Rouse
Location: San Francisco, California
Architect: Lundberg Design
