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Conceptualized as an innovative model for 21-st century networking and interdisciplinary collaborative research, Malone Hall is an ambitious addition to the Johns Hopkins University campus. A four-story, 69,000 square-foot building located on the University’s Homewood Campus, Malone Hall’s interior is a sleek, stylish, open floor design that blends three floors of flexible computer lab, office, and collaboration spaces with one floor of wet research labs. Glass doors and luxurious wooden hallway walls play off of the polished sheen of a stunning terrazzo raised access floor to provide a modern, interactive and cross-disciplinary environment where the world’s best minds can work together seamlessly. Caption The evolv... More

NFL Los Angeles at Hollywood Park serves as a technical facility that houses NFL Network,  NFL.com, NFL RedZone, the NFL app and other media and business operations. The building was designed to be scalable to accommodate future production formats. The facility features more than 20 conference rooms, 18 post-production edit rooms, multiple studios for on-air footage, podcasts and voiceover recordings and enough raised access flooring to nearly cover an entire football field. Caption A facility like this, with more than 800 monitors throughout the building, has a lot of wires to manage. In fact, at the time of the building’s ribbon cutting, they were using ~386 miles of ethernet cabling alone. By placing that cabling under t... More

AEO is a global lifestyle, clothing and accessories retailer. The NYC office, known as the AEO New York Design Center, is in the historic Tiffany & Co. building in the heart of Manhattan and acts as a hub for designers, merchant and production teams. A recent office expansion and renovation focused on the company’s cultural and functional goals and aimed to optimize team member collaboration, flexible working and a safe and healthy environment. Caption Caption The beautiful, historic building features 20-foot-tall ceilings and a unique domed roof skylight, both important characteristics the architects wanted to highlight. By utilizing 8-inch raised access floors with Underfloor Air Distribution, the design team was abl... More

The new sleek, futuristic, and minimalist style of the Telemundo Center in Miami, FL, represents the future of Telemundo Enterprises in Spanish-language TV and the media industry in general. Combining offices, TV news, sports, and production soundstages into one 476,000 sqft facility, Telemundo’s new headquarters is a glimpse into the future of mixed-use space meant to unify corporate, news, and creative from several widely scattered locations across the US. The new headquarters is environmentally friendly, and is designed to meet demanding sustainability, safety, and efficiency standards, utilizing many design elements often used in LEED-certified buildings – it can even sustain a Category 5 hurricane. The building is divided... More

HED, in collaboration with Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planners, designed a dramatic new academic complex that transforms Santa Monica High School’s (SAMOHI’s) North Campus. Benefitting both school and the surrounding community, the complex elevates educational, cultural and recreational pursuits; improves campus access and circulation; and supports whole child development and diverse learning styles. Inessa Binenbaum From arts and athletic facilities to larger, light-filled classrooms, enhanced support spaces to reorganized outdoor spaces, the five-story, 280,000 square foot complex fosters social interactions and strengthens the sense of community on SAMOHI’s campus. Inessa Binenbaum Wrapped around an... More

Furthering its resolution to become “the leader in connectivity, mobility, autonomous vehicles, the customer experience, and data and analytics,” Ford has deepened its investment in Palo Alto, renovating two previously vacant buildings to significantly expand its existing Research and Innovation Center. Flexible and collaborative, the redesign reflects the unique ecosystem of Silicon Valley itself—dynamic. Relationship-based. Future-focused, and driven.With its opening, the newly expanded Research and Innovation Center doubled Ford’s Palo Alto workforce, and created more than five times the square footage of the original campus. Today, it stands as yet another powerful signifier of Ford’s commitment to advance—and lead—the smart mobility ma... More