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A vibrant public ream

The redesign integrates shared amenities, sheltered outdoor workspaces, and striking five-story green columns. These vertical gardens, illuminated at night, energize the public realm while enhancing pedestrian flow and community engagement.

Seasonal comfort and biophilic design

Solar studies informed the redesign of the lobbies, optimizing comfort year-round. The south lobby now functions as a winter garden with extended glazing, lush interior planting, and sliding glass doors that blur the boundary between indoors and out. The north lobby opens to a sun porch for summer gatherings. Natural materials like bleached wood and marble create a biophilic experience, while patterned pavers unify the entry court and guide users through the site.

Modernization meets maintenance

The repositioning also addressed deferred maintenance, replacing exterior pink granite-clad and GFRC walls with new cladding and punched windows. A new alley loading dock with roll-down doors was added, modernizing the complex while supporting its functional needs.

Streamlined services, thoughtful design

Atherton’s former administrative and public safety functions were scattered across separate facilities, creating inefficiencies for residents and civic leaders. The new City Hall consolidates services—including the post office, planning and building departments, police, and meeting spaces—into a single two-story L-shaped building. Educational services for seniors and toddlers are now conveniently integrated into this civic hub.

At its center, a welcoming public living room fosters community connection, while a new council chamber accommodates 50 people, functioning as a meeting space, conference room, and emergency operations center. By uniting these services, the Town Center enhances accessibility and strengthens civic engagement.

Honoring nature, enhancing connectivity

Preserving mature oak trees—vital to migratory birds along the Coastal Mountain Ridgeline—was a priority, along with expanding native landscaping and introducing pervious paving to manage stormwater. These strategies reduce environmental impact while offering replicable models for sustainable water and land management.

The materials—locally-sourced wood and rammed earth—were selected for their acoustic properties and alignment with a low-carbon future. A redesigned pedestrian plaza replaced a dividing road, connecting City Hall with the Library and other civic spaces, creating a vibrant hub where community and nature converge.

UCSF Parking Structure

Conveniently situated near the I-280 freeway exit, the Owens Street Parking Structure serves as a central hub for the UCSF community, providing easy access to key facilities, including the Medical Center, Benioff Children’s Hospital, Bakar Cancer Hospital, and Betty Irene Moore Women’s Hospital.

The 10-story, 627-vehicle parking structure exemplifies the innovation and design excellence for which the institution is known. As the first interaction many visitors have with the UCSF campus, the structure serves as a welcoming entry point, designed to convey a sense of place and direction while complementing the dynamic character of Mission Bay.

Dynamic facade: form meets function

The upper levels of the parking structure are enveloped in a custom anodized aluminum louver system in warm earth tones. Vertical louvers alternate orientations from panel to panel, creating a quilted pattern that plays with light and shadow throughout the day. This design adds visual interest while facilitating natural ventilation and minimizing light spill at night, reducing its impact on the surrounding neighborhood. Two-story view apertures, framed by vertical fins, transition between the pedestrian scale and the building’s larger volume.

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Making parking easy, safe, and enjoyable

Inside, elevator waiting areas are strategically placed to frame outdoor views, offering moments of connection with the surroundings. At the building’s base, a secure and welcoming pedestrian zone is enriched with cement plaster soffits, a painted white concrete frame, perforated white metal panels, extensive lighting, street trees, and plantings, creating an inviting streetscape.

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Design-Build excellence

This high-performance parking structure, part of a broader transportation strategy for UCSF’s expanding campus, was the result of a successful Design-Build competition. The collaboration between Rudolph and Sletten and WRNS Studio showcases how thoughtful design and functionality can elevate even the most utilitarian of buildings, setting a new standard for infrastructure in Mission Bay.

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Stanford Research Park

Crafting a cohesive, multifaceted district

Redeveloping this 25-acre site required creating distinct zones that integrate seamlessly into both Stanford Research Park and the surrounding area. The design team segmented the site into zones reflecting major uses: hotel/conferencing, residential, work, parking, and retail. This approach informed a cohesive district plan while honoring the unique needs of each zone.

A hotel and conference center anchor the site’s most prominent corner, at the intersection of El Camino Real and Page Mill Road. Along Page Mill Road, a workplace zone integrates two office towers with Palo Alto Square, maintaining continuity for existing tenants. On the north side, the mixed-use residential zone invites pedestrians with retail spaces on the ground floor and residences above. Garden apartments open to a central courtyard, offering greenspace for families. A parking structure on the south end pulls cars to the perimeter, while the central market plaza—with event spaces and indoor-outdoor retail—brings all zones together, creating a vibrant hub for gathering and connection. The landscape reflects the site’s zoning while enhancing wayfinding and open space.

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Project and site organization

The Frist Health Center is organized around a central atrium that connects three distinct wings, each serving a unique purpose. Eno Hall, a historic campus classroom building constructed in 1924, is now a modern workplace supporting Princeton’s Health Services program. Outpatient Medical Services and Counseling and Psychological Services (CPS) occupy the two newly constructed wings, which extend outward along key campus pathways, Guyot Lane and Goheen Walk.

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Courtyards, green roofs, a winter garden, and diverse plant life create a calming, restorative environment. Pathways and gardens of varying character enhance the experience, inviting choice, exploration, and discovery. Expansive glass curtain walls connect the interiors to surrounding gardens and campus landscape, infusing the building’s heart with life and greenery. Sunlight filters through decorative, biophilic metal sunshades, managing solar heat gain while animating the space with intricate shadow patterns.

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Integrating landscape, architecture, and wellness

With its finely tuned interrelationship between landscape and architecture, the Princeton campus offers a distinctive and memorable experience, with connection to gardens in its DNA. This relationship reflects two campus planning legacies: Olmsted’s romantic vision of free-standing buildings in park-like settings and Ralph Adams Cram’s master plan, which weaves individual buildings together around enclosed courtyards with pathways and portals. Recognizing the role of human behavior and environmental factors in holistic health, we focused on seamlessly integrating the building with the landscape, celebrating Princeton’s rich planning legacy, while improving accessibility for the campus community.

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A welcoming campus amenity

Emphasizing holistic health, the project brings together counseling and psychological services, health promotion and prevention, and sexual harassment/assault advising, resources, and education. Medical services encompass outpatient medical, global and community health, occupational health, and an overnight infirmary. 

With spaces like the atrium, the McLain Pavilion for Well-Being (a multi-purpose room), the Isabella McCosh Garden (an indoor-outdoor room filled with plants), and cloister garden, the Frist Health Center encourages students to use its spaces to study, socialize, and recharge, helping to destigmatize access to care while nurturing a connected, inclusive campus experience.

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“The Frist Health Center was designed to create a warm, welcoming, healing and inviting environment. We envisioned it as a comforting destination for students, ill and well. The expansive building’s soaring atrium and connections to nature make for a beautiful, calming space.”

John Kolligian Ph.D.
Executive Director, University Health Services
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Atrium: heart and connective tissue

The heart and connective tissue of the Frist Health Center is the atrium—a transparent and transient collector space that serves as the building’s main point of entry, accessible from three sides. More than just a passageway, the atrium welcomes the campus community with a gracious lounge and informal social spaces. With no singular entryway, the atrium itself becomes the building’s front door, seamlessly linking each wing to the services housed within.

The interior of this triple-height space is distinguished by the former façade of Eno Hall. The historic brick integrates with the new mass timber construction to create a rich and warm material palette, imbuing the Frist Health Center with a hospitable feel. Glass surfaces connect the solid wings, while the mass timber “lid” rests atop the existing facade, enclosing a transparent, airy volume.

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Adaptive Reuse: Celebrating legacy, minimizing carbon and waste

By repurposing Eno Hall, a Collegiate Gothic building, the Frist Health Center integrates with Princeton’s architectural legacy while minimizing carbon and waste. Reuse of Eno Hall leverages the University’s existing building stock for 21st Century use. Positioning the historic building as a center stage piece in the main atrium, the project expands from  reuse to celebration of our built fabric. Additional sustainable design strategies include a radiant heating and cooling system, hybrid mass timber and steel framing systems, green roofs, and native plantings for stormwater management. The winter garden element expands the seasonal use of the building, serving as a threshold element in the colder months and as a “back porch” in the warmer seasons.

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By achieving a Carbon Use Intensity (CUI) of 24.0 kgCO₂e/ft², the Frist Health Center exemplifies how thoughtful design and adherence to AIA COTE Top 10 toolkit can lead to substantial reductions in carbon emissions, setting a benchmark for future projects.

Sanctuary: warmth, comfort, and light

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High Performance Envelope
The building is enclosed by a high-performance envelope, incorporating triple glazed, operable windows, fixed sunshades, and enhanced R-value with continuous mineral wool insulation in the cavity behind the brick cladding. This strategy supports the use of radiant heating and cooling, promoting energy efficiency and occupant comfort.
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Ventilation
Air is ducted directly into each room, preventing air exchange between spaces and reducing the spread of airborne pathogens. A warm, textured palette with exposed timber enriches the atmosphere, offering a welcoming contrast to typical sterile healthcare environments.
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Natural Light
Natural light is a key design element, highlighted by the floor-to-ceiling glass curtain wall in the atrium and strategic daylighting throughout. Light reaches the lower level through an east-facing lightwell with clerestory windows and extensive glass walls surrounding the Cloister Garden. Patient spaces, including exam rooms, maximize daylight access with obscured glass for privacy.

Wellness beacon: the McLain Pavilion for Well-Being

Facing the popular Goheen Walk, the 200-person Multipurpose Room hosts a variety of Health Services programs, as well as events for the broader campus. A flexible outdoor terrace adjoining the multi-purpose room offers fresh air and natural light, enhancing the indoor-outdoor experience. Sunken into the ground and capped by a planted roof  visible from multiple vantage points within the building, the pavilion invites users to be embedded in the earth.

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Baking in choice

A diversity of waiting areas, designed like living rooms with residential-style furnishings and lighting, creates a comforting environment, especially for students seeking mental health support. These spaces, along with the adjacent garden areas, like the Isabella McCosh Garden, offer choice between introspective, intimate settings and more public, social ones, fostering a sense of agency and comfort for both students and staff. Decorative walnut privacy screens provide concealment while allowing natural light to flow through. The emphasis on choice extends to the office spaces, where a diverse material palette mirrors the variety of experiences available throughout the building.

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Diversity of spaces

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Cross-laminated timber (CLT)

The building  features a hybrid mass timber and steel structural  system, marking one of Princeton University’s first projects to incorporate CLT. Glulam timber elements form the majority of exposed columns and the longspan  beams in the atrium, while CLT panels are used for the floor structure. Beyond providing a smaller  carbon footprint than conventional structural systems, the natural, biophilic  beauty of wood as a primary interior finish supports the building’s performance and wellness goals. Here, wellness is truly in the woodwork, with every design element crafted to inspire holistic health.

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Embedding wellness into the campus fabric

Harnessing the Frist Health Center’s proximity to student hubs like dining and recreation, the University is exploring cross-programming opportunities to connect outreach programs to further embed a culture of wellness into the heart of campus.

Hospitality-inspired design

The care suites, located along the facility’s southern perimeter,  feature warm materials and soothing colors to support therapeutic goals. To aid patient stabilization, light fixtures subtly shift color temperature over a 24-hour cycle. Research shows this approach enhances natural circadian rhythms, helping to stabilize moods and sleep patterns often disrupted by mental illness.

Four courtyards bring daylight into common areas while enhancing energy efficiency. Comfortable, light-filled communal areas provide patients and families with warm, inviting spaces to wait, meet, or socialize.

“We are so proud to work with the wonderful crew from WRNS. They are great listeners and are able to put into form the concepts we have shared with them. This project is historical and a model for other regions!”

Michael Fitzgerald
Former Executive Director of Behavioral Health Services, El Camino Health

Tranquility and sense of welcome

Situated on the edge of the Mountain View campus,  the building’s façade conveys warmth and openness, evoking a residential or hospitality feel. The entry lobby—a striking two-story glass structure—creates a welcoming focal point amid mature heritage trees, enhancing its inviting presence. The material palette—featuring variegated aluminum panels, terra cotta-colored cement board, and board-formed concrete—harmonizes with ECH’s park-like setting. 

Individualized care and community support

The design team collaborated closely with ECH staff to identify best practices for behavioral health facilities—a challenging process due to the scarcity of successful, holistic care models nationwide. This effort included benchmarking, facility tours, and peer review. In response, the treatment model focuses on stabilizing patients in a short-term inpatient setting before transitioning them to outpatient care, all within the same building.  Each patient care suite has a group therapy space, a communal kitchen, and a courtyard for access to nature. The suites are modular and can grow or shrink as specialized patient populations change over time.

Safety and security

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Trauma-informed design with a hotel-like ambiance. Warm finishes. Private, anti-ligature bath and shower.
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Nurse stations that are open and accessible, but with direct, secure exits and integrated security technology.
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Using landform to balance privacy to connection to nature.
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Enclosure and ample glazing ensure that patients can enjoy outdoor space without direction supervision.

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Valley Oak Health

Reimagining a 1950s grocery store for modern healthcare

As the Council’s first development in Colusa, the center establishes a forward-looking identity—welcoming, rooted in the area’s history, and open to all. Positioned as a catalyst for future Main Street growth, the Medical Center addresses immediate needs while paving the way for expansion and long-term community development.

Built in the 1950s, the Chung Sun Building’s long-span bow truss structure provides exceptional interior flexibility, allowing the design team to creatively reorient the building toward Main Street. Plans include 13 exam rooms for internal and specialized medicine, a behavioral health clinic, and an optometry store. By adaptively reusing the structure, the project is projected to save up to 20% on construction costs while reducing embodied carbon by an impressive 60%, aligning functionality with environmental stewardship.

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A reimagined campus

Nestled low into the landscape, the reimagined two-story campus now offers a workplace that synthesizes the well-being of both people and the environment. Employees will just as likely delight in their individual workspaces—light-filled spaces crafted of unadorned, honest materials like wood and concrete that look onto vegetated courtyards—as they will the expansive living roof, featuring  eateries, fitness amenities, and trails leading out to the nearby creek. regenerating local habitat and site ecology.

Inside-out approach

The inside-out design strategy arose from a deep investigation into Microsoft’s culture and operations. While leadership sought a community-driven workplace, interviews revealed that engineers favored small, quiet spaces for solo or paired work. The solution was a series of human-scaled neighborhoods that balanced privacy and collaboration, fostering a sense of ownership among distinct groups.

We explored nine space types ranging from collaborative to private, ultimately narrowing them to three that struck the right balance. The front-runners offered a flexible platform for authentic, personalized work experiences, while creating an environment where employees could move easily between focus and collaboration. The space types guided our site analyses and allowed us to identify a preferred option that delivers a holistic, inside-out campus experience.

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Scrum areas were integrated into each neighborhood adding a touch of colorful personality.
Social gaming areas at the intersection of neighborhoods were curated to provide a cozy yet energetic vibe

Courtyards scheme: a walkable campus with diverse amenities

Inspired by the dense, mixed-use neighborhoods of great walkable cities, the campus—organized around a series of courtyards—generates a human-scaled experience of discovery and prospect in which people are invited to wander through the workplace, up staircases, around outdoor decks, and along the roof’s many pathways. 

The courtyards, featuring regional planting palettes, serve as both community anchors and extensions of the workplace fostering seamless indoor-outdoor connections. With raw, honest materials and a subtly playful palette, interior design draws inspiration from these landscapes. 

Organized within close proximity to the workplace neighborhoods, amenities include dispersed and differently scaled gathering areas, recreation zones, food and beverage stops, a café overlooking Stevens Creek in which the whole campus can gather, and a public tech center that houses galleries and a theater. 

The “Mashup” Concept

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Campus Programs

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The main dining amenity on campus is designed as a market hall with multiple food offerings.
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This area acts as the heart of the campus, centrally located near the hub courtyard at the intersection of primary circulation pathways across campus. The hospitality vibe attracts people at all times and also serves as the all hands space for the campus.
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Located near the fitness and parking areas, the juice bar is a focal point for social interaction, encouraging healthy drink choices as employees enter/ exit the campus after work.
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With a capacity of 299 people, the auditorium is ideal for after-hours networking events featuring industry experts and guest speakers, fostering engagement among employees, clients, and the broader Silicon Valley community.
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This double height space with a dynamic digital art installation expresses Microsoft’s brand to the external world and is used as a pre-function space for the campus’s conferencing center.
Customer Experience Center (CEC)
This area showcases the company’s innovative products to dignitaries, executives, and VIP guests. Situated in a re-purposed building on the campus, the CEC reflects the brand’s identity while fostering an intimate, professional atmosphere.

Honest materials for a healthy, timeless workplace

The material palette reflects Microsoft’s identity as an established tech company with a forward-looking approach to sustainability. Honest materials—like exposed mass timber, concrete, and hot-rolled steel—form the structural and interior finishes, while a natural color and texture palette adds warmth and variety. 

Material health played a critical role in the design: over 80% of the 300+ interior finishes were Red List-free and included Health Product Declarations (HPDs).

Cross-laminated timber: performance and wellness

As one of North America’s largest mass timber projects at the time of construction, the campus embodies Microsoft’s goals for low-carbon construction, employee well-being, and supporting local industry. Extensive use of CLT—including structural components that double as interior finishes—offers a warm aesthetic while minimizing materials. This approach resulted in an estimated 36% reduction in embodied carbon.

A spirit of reuse over replacement

In line with Microsoft’s commitment to the circular economy, we opted to reuse two buildings, reducing material waste and minimizing operational disruption. The existing buildings provide 36% of the new campus footprint, significantly minimizing embodied carbon. 

Academia-inspired workplace design

Microsoft envisioned a community-driven environment where employees and visitors could engage in the broader dialogue spurring innovation in New York. Taking cues from the city’s porous academic environments, the design balances vibrant social and collaborative areas with spaces for focused, independent work.

The stacks

A variety of flexible, interconnected spaces allow for easy transitions between concentration and collaboration. Inspired by the traditional university library, researchers’ workspaces are divided by “stacks”—custom millwork providing storage, whiteboards, and personal libraries. The combination of wood, books, soft lighting, and hidden nooks evokes an academic atmosphere, ensuring both visual and acoustic privacy for deep focus and teamwork.

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The Garage: a public-facing innovation hub

Fostering connections with the community, Microsoft’s Soho workplace features The Garage—a flexible, multipurpose space designed for customer and public events. This space also serves as a dynamic maker space and learning lab where employees can experiment and collaborate. Retractable walls allow The Garage to expand into adjacent spaces, including a multipurpose theater that accommodates up to 120 guests. Located on the second floor, the largest floorplate, The Garage is easily accessed from the street and lobby.

Vertical connectivity

A dynamic communicating stair links the floors, creating a fluid connection between different work modes and levels. Crafted from blackened steel and stainless steel cable, the stair nods to Soho’s iconic cast iron buildings and fire escapes, paying homage to the neighborhood’s rich history of creativity and craftsmanship.

Gathering and dining

The sixth floor serves as a central gathering space where employees can dine and relax. A casual tea room opens onto a large wrap-around terrace, offering flexible seating and tables that can be easily reconfigured for any group size or event. Additional meeting rooms and informal social spaces throughout the building provide employees with different options for working and socializing.

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Connecting interior design with Soho’s iconic streetscape

Materials knit this workplace together. The extensive use of cherry wood ties the interior to the adjacent, iconic brick façade of the Puck Building, creating a warm, inviting “heart” visible from the street. Rough concrete tile wraps around the building’s core, reflecting the urban character and energy of the surrounding neighborhood.