Positioned in the heart of West Valley City’s new urban core, the Fairbourne Station Office Tower is designed to attract local and national businesses due to its customizable tenant spaces and proximity to the airport, highways and mass transit. The tower’s skyline-defining solar array serves as both a striking design feature and functional power source, with 698 panels capable of providing an estimated annual production of 330,000 kWh.
A sleek facade of brick, metal panels and glass curtain walls enhance the building’s modern aesthetic, while the cherry wood veneer lobby, polished concrete floors and etched glass panels add to its refined interior. As a central hub of West Valley City's Redevelopment Plan, the tower sets architectural standards for future developments.
Built to bring together Overstock.com staff in a single, collaborative work environment, the distinctive, circular “Peace Coliseum” anchors a corporate campus that connects public transportation, on-site childcare and a greenhouse that grows fresh fruits and vegetables for the company cafeteria. The building’s circular design dispenses with traditional hierarchy, trading corner offices for an equitable and transparent open-plan layout.
To explicitly place employees at the center of the company, the design features a gathering space called the “Nucleus” within the inner courtyard, housing the main employee commons area and a cafe. Through an exposed structure and honest use of raw materials, the building reflects an architectural commitment to authenticity and integrity that positively contributes to Overstock’s company culture.
Applying a budget-conscious design strategy, we completely transformed the decades-old corporate office space. To accomplish the transformation, we minimized structural or mechanical changes while focusing on upscale finishes and energy upgrades. Program elements include a 24-hour control room, gathering spaces for meetings and collaboration and office spaces equipped for remote and in-person work.
The design solutions reimagines the top two floors of the World Trade Center Utah building into a professional, sophisticated office environment. Our meticulous space planning optimized available space to ensure comfort and functionality with sufficient natural light in perimeter offices and enhanced visual appeal using varied material palettes. Glass office fronts and stair railings were used extensively to maximize natural light flow into interior spaces. The upper floor's high volume was leveraged with tall ceilings and structural steel framing, adding industrial sophistication while incorporating wood slat ceilings to screen HVAC systems. Providing a vaulted roof structure filled with HVAC and elevator equipment allowed us to transform the central mechanical spaces into connecting hallways.
Driven by an imperative to reinvigorate the appeal of a physical workspace, we worked closely with Diversified to develop innovative solutions to embody its culture of collaboration within the space. The design achieves this by connecting the office space physically and visually; seamlessly weaving central gathering areas with adaptable workspaces tailored to the needs of in-person, remote and hybrid employees. We augmented the appeal of the contemporary space with exposed structure ceilings, wood elements, abundant daylighting, city and mountain views and carefully selected furniture and art.
Fulfilling the company’s need for a local office and regional corporate training center, the building program balanced the space needs between individual and collective working habits and spaces for large training and conference room settings. The striking L-shaped design extends to both street fronts, enlivening the pedestrian experience and setting a precedent for transit-oriented design along the rapidly growing North Temple corridor. Located adjacent to the TRAX stop that connects Utah’s two largest cities to the airport, the building encourages local employees and out-of-town staff to commute via public transportation.
The design focused on providing a healing environment that inspires hope and creates a positive impact through education, advocacy and social awareness. Our programming enhances the user experience with yoga studios, presentation spaces, photo and video studios, podcast rooms, a library and therapy rooms. We maximized natural light upon entry into the two-story atrium for a bright, welcoming atmosphere and incorporated custom white oak ceilings provide warmth, uniformity and a visual sense of place throughout the common areas.
We developed a space for this international software and technology firm with an open floor plan for mobility and flexibility to accommodate work style and location based on task. Our team incorporated local user input and applied evidence-based design strategies to determine the quantity and types of spaces, such as private ‘zone’ rooms, group ‘focus’ rooms, ‘project team’ rooms and multi-purpose spaces able to support the needs of research/ engineering and sales teams. Our sustainable and environmentally conscious design features natural, rapidly renewable materials, local materials and materials with recycled content. Work spaces along window lines provide natural daylight and an outdoors connection.
Our design team transformed an aging industrial warehouse into a bright, welcoming and highly functional workspace for Google Fiber’s Salt Lake City offices. Working alongside Google Fiber from ideation to implementation, the space’s flexible work environments allow employees to choose how and where they work best — with options from heads-down work areas to several spaces for collaborative group work. Our design celebrates the building’s unique industrial character and history throughout with elements such as exposed trusses, beams and ducting as well as using a decommissioned ceiling crane and salvaged metal door serve as eye-catching accent pieces.
The design helped One Nashville reimagine a previously underutilized corner of Printer’s Alley, an iconic pedestrian zone in downtown Nashville. Our team worked with a local landmarks group to incorporate historical references into our wayfinding treatment. The result is a revitalized pedestrian experience that orients visitors to the unique character of the Printer’s Alley neighborhood – both in the past and in the present.
Based in San Francisco, this rapidly growing technology firm chose to open its Salt Lake City office in the historic Kearns building in downtown Salt Lake City. EDA’s neutral and warm design preserves the historical, industrial design elements and capitalizes on excellent mountain views throughout the space (viewed through original wood window frames). Our design includes a 2,000 SF mezzanine addition to satisfy the firm's growth plans and technology upgrades throughout to accommodate the firm’s extensive teleconferencing needs.
Working with the client to reintroduce the existing building as an integral and welcoming part of downtown, the reimagined public space provides a top-tier tenant experience with amenities more akin to hospitality than a typical commercial environment. Utilizing the existing structure and capitalizing on unused space, our design incorporates modern forms, a natural color palate and natural wood screening elements that soften – without detracting from – the purposefully exposed concrete. Our design includes a new, multi-functional courtyard with fire pit, seating options and dramatic wall mural and a re-energized fourth-floor balcony.
Our team worked with this global leader in robotic systems to develop a new headquarters and production facility in a 100-year-old steel and iron foundry space in Salt Lake City’s Granary District. Our design expanded Sarcos' prototyping capabilities while simultaneously fulfilling its objective of attracting and retaining top-tier talent.
Canopy Tax is a collaborative open office with a multitude of breakout spaces and phenomenal valley views. The spacious main areas allow teams to meet in private or bounce ideas off other team members they happen to run into.
We set out to create a headquarters interior design that embraces Skullcandy’s coming-of-age, while still celebrating its irreverent, ‘skater-punk’ roots. From R&D lab space to a half-pipe skateboard ramp, the space supports a wide range of employee activities. Many unusual programmatic elements were included to meet Skullcandy’s unique organizational needs. These included an anechoic chamber (a room designed to completely absorb reflections of sound or electromagnetic waves), woodshop, painting booth, printing room, warehouse, retail store, music jam room, photography studio, and retail display workroom. Thoughtful space planning for a functional flow that addressed concerns of noise, fumes, and dust separation was paramount to the success of this project.
A leading developer of dental office software, the Weave Headquarters space serves as a recruiting tool to attract quality employees and talented young leaders with a creative, collaborative and exciting space. Meeting the constraints of a tight, “turnkey,” building owner driven budget, our design provides secure work areas within an open, energetic environment. Amenities include a Swag Store, Zen Den, Library and an employee Hair Salon. Our central stair design and orientation creates a focal point and is a significant conduit connecting the company’s amenity spaces with the upper-floor team members.
Elevating function and quality, the space is next-generation workplace experience uniquely tailored to Quotient. Our human-centered solution incorporates various space typologies to suit work-style preferences such as zoom rooms, one-on-one/huddle rooms, heads-down workspace, open collaboration areas and dedicated hoteling space for remote and travelling staff. Our unique branding deconstructs Quotient’s logo along the reception wall through scale, proportion and geometry and a mixed materiality of moss, wood and blackened steel.
Accommodating exponential growth since its 2010 inception, we worked with Lucid Software on a corporate headquarters that locates employees from various sites into one central space. The office unifies employees around amenities and resources includes specifically to promote a fun and collaborative work environment. Our design solution reinforces Lucid’s culture and serves to recruit talent throughout the Salt Lake region in an increasingly competitive hiring environment.
Combining departments previously housed in separate buildings/suites into one cohesive space, the space design amplifies the company's culture and mission. We worked with Dyno Nobel to amplify the company's culture and mission as part of adding dimension and a feel of movement to the two-story space.
The new Customer Center of Excellence facility provides a workspace for the employees of the San Francisco-based firm who relocated to the Salt Lake City area from around the country. The modern, welcoming and inviting environment incorporates a neutral, nature-based color palette and elements of Castlight’s brand and culture. Corporate functions within the space include customer service/call center space along with collaboration, computer engineering, staff training areas and an ‘all hands’ meeting area between two of the staff training areas. We mitigated the impact of sound travel between the different uses through strategic space planning, with buffers between the different uses and the application of acoustic solutions as part of the ceiling treatments, fabrics specified and furnishings. The "all hands" area connects to the training rooms thorough a garage door at one side and a movable partition wall at the other.
As part of the strategy to increase the marketability of the downtown Salt Lake City multi-tenant building, the reimagined the entry and elevator lobbies provides a well-lit fresh modern feel. Our design allows the subtle difference between the white walls and light wood to help brighten the lobby and elevator cab spaces. We contrasted the light colors, adding a display of green moss to form a bold stripe alongside wall lights and wood paneling.
As part of a cross-country move from New Jersey to Sandy Utah, resulting a relocation of most its employees, Tata Chemicals’ concerns included providing employees an office space where they enjoyed working. EDA delivered such a space with our sophisticated, transparent and collaborative office design. Our strategic use of glazing achieves a feeling of openness and transparency throughout provides a connection to the outside while accommodating privacy and functional requirements. Encouraging collaboration and company socialization, an open break room with custom benching promotes informal meetings. Additional meeting spaces throughout the open office further encourage employee engagement and collaboration. Connecting the spaces to Tata’s mining of the mineral Trona, elements and images representing Tata Chemical’s mining heritage serve as subtle and obvious ways to reinforce the culture, brand and distinct history.
The seven-level, 420,000 SF Fairbourne Station Parking Structure in West Valley City provides a fifty- year parking structure for visitors riding UTA buses and Trax, West Valley City employees and the office building tenants of the Fairbourne Station Office Tower. The structure is equipped with a snow-melt system built into upper level clear of snow in the wintertime as well as negating the need for snow-plow storage. Additionally, the design allows the unique inclusion of small retail spaces on the ground level that will enliven the outdoor area surrounding the parking structure. The glass curtain walls and smart design elements on the northeast corner match the surrounding buildings and connect to the adjacent office tower via a second-story sky bridge, while openings in the concrete facade bring in natural light to the 1,200 stalls inside. Utilizing a moment frame allowed for the exclusion of shear walls, thereby increasing user safety by eliminating blind spots.
The design for this innovative R&D and manufacturing tilt-up construction facility reinforces Advanced Composites brand. The 42,000 SF shop area provides a long clear span open fabrication area with 25-foot clear hook height for four bridge cranes.
The feasibility study for Daybreak's South Station District at the end of the TRAX Red Line explored a transformative 4,000-acre master planned community. Referred to as Downtown Daybreak, we envisioned a walkable, transit rich, mixed-use office, civic and retail core at its heart. Embodying the human scaled design principles of the “New Urbanism” movement, the first phase in our proposed development is a 150,000 SF office building and 10,000 SF neighborhood retail building.
This core-and-shell office building design capitalized on our long history corporate space and architectural design. We provided the developer high-quality office space, ample flexibility to future tenants and an adaptable floor plate and core designed to balance occupant comfort with energy efficiency. The optimized the glass-to-core dimension maximize natural daylighting, including locating the fitness center on the building’s exterior instead burying it in middle to create an amenity tenants would enjoy using. The highly efficient core layout allowed us to create a generous 2-story entry lobby to elevate the first impression for all who enter.
Our team applied a proven design concept from a successful chain of regional convenience stores and translating that into an appropriate interpretation for a corporate office environment. Our use creative materials and space planning resulted in a playful, professional design that abstracts company values. Our approach captured the adventurous spirit and connectivity to outdoor activities shared among Maverik's employees.
Working closely with natural gas service supplier Questar (now Dominion Energy), we evaluated the headquarters facility to assess its optimal space needs. Our evaluation led to the company relocating its headquarters to a 170,000 SF space, resulting in a twenty percent reduction in leased space. Our office-space design provides a single, purpose-built headquarters that effectively marries four separate entities – gas, pipeline, Wexpro, corporate – under a single unifying Questar brand. Through a series of workplace strategy sessions, we arrived at a common set of design rules for the office environment to reflect its corporate culture. Using abstract natural gas branding images subtly reinforced the Questar culture. By providing common amenity spaces serving all four entities the environment enhances the work place culture and promotes the attraction and retention of high quality staff.
Developing a space for this award-winning mid-sized law firm, we provided a unified, collaborative office environment that updated and refreshed its classic, traditional interiors with a contemporary, transitional design. The results presents the professional, distinguished firm while facilitating productivity and recruiting talent with subtle references to branding.
In the heart of downtown Salt Lake City, the space takes full advantage of the location with views from almost every room. We provided the attorneys a modern, light and airy design solution, a shift from the firm’s previous facilities. Crisp white walls and warm wood floors echo a sense of stability that the firm is known for.
Working with the national accounting firm, the design provides an overall coherency with distinctions between the divisions’ connected spaces and operations. Eide Bailly's cybersecurity operations required secure access with natural light to enhance the workspace for those engaged the mentally trying work. Other spaces in the Lehi office include a multipurpose training room with movable dividing wall, a common reception area, breakroom and dining area.