The headquarters for a digital motion-picture graphics firm is principally a building built over a building. The design of this four-storey building reflects the requirement of providing a unified working environment for a high class graphics company while allowing privacy between groups working within the same project. The firm often handles multiple clients competing for the same projects and must keep a high-level of discretion within the company. The client insisted on confidentiality and secrecy for competitive reasons, sometimes working together on projects for two different networks or studios.

Eric Owen Moss worked intensively with the client in order to develop design that would limit access to sensitive areas. By carefully layering private and public zones and through the creation of control nodes, the architecture gave concern to a natural security system. This method provides a flexible environment capable of adapting to the changing needs of the client.

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The headquarters for a digital motion-picture graphics firm is principally a building built over a building. The design of this four-storey building reflects the requirement of providing a unified working environment for a high class graphics company while allowing privacy between groups working within the same project. The firm often handles multiple clients competing for the same projects and must keep a high-level of discretion within the company. The client insisted on confidentiality and secrecy for competitive reasons, sometimes working together on projects for two different networks or studios.

Eric Owen Moss worked intensively with the client in order to develop design that would limit access to sensitive areas. By carefully layering private and public zones and through the creation of control nodes, the architecture gave concern to a natural security system. This method provides a flexible environment capable of adapting to the changing needs of the client.

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The Beehive is a new office building and conference center that was attached into an existing fabric of warehouses. An existing two levels, wood building was demolished and replaced by a new two levels structure. The project is an experiment in creating a public image for the building that is capable of communicating its existence in a limited area along a busy street. Concentrating into practice formal solutions that never before realized and often provocative, taking steps toward influence and the irregular: in this Beehive project architect Eric Owen Moss from California proudly represents his work, even though his choices cannot be categorized to a new innovation.

The Beehive works not about resolution, not also derived from a sense of build-a-ability. Medschool.com as the client needs the overall of the building to be flexible, open work areas with some private offices. The main entrance is at the ground floor of the Beehive and reception area for Medschool.com. The office and conference building placed on the site of a previous wooden structure in an area which occupied by warehouses and industries on its three main sides. The site is quite anonymous, aesthetically speaking, and needed a landmark of its own. This is why Eric Owen Moss altering the facade of the building that facing on the busy road. The Beehive is therefore considered as the front of the building.

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Imagine an office space in a confined area on an environmentally damaged industrial site. Stealth by Eric Owen Moss Architect utilizes it on the site of a remediate industrial brown field with contaminated soil in Culver City, California. The architect’s respond changes the limitations of the sunken site, as it turn to a place for an experimental, sculptural building with a constantly varying sequence of interior and exterior spaces, a speculative office building design. The jury commented, “We like the renewal of the site on a basic, environmental level as well as renewal on a design level with the insertion of a new building into an existing space.”

With the optimism that good business and high-quality design go smoothly, the client worked with Eric Owen Moss to design a building that would use exciting, cutting-edge design to engage high-profile clients to an area of otherwise little interest. The choice of a highly desirable location and an award-winning architect guaranteed the visibility of this proposed office building, geared to attract high-profile media tenants. Now internationally known tenants have signed in and are proud to be there. They felt that the Stealth building reflected their own ethos of creativity and innovation.

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It was the History Channel’s “Engineering an Empire” vagaries which sponsored this spectacular fest in three big cities: New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles projected as case studies to seers how the future of those is, with ten grand buck acts as the prize. The competition itself a little pushing, the participants was given one week deadline to imagine their vision of the city 100 future years, present it with anything they can do: renderings, models, and text.

Yet the three winners was pocketed their $10,000, if they also want more $10,000 they should win the next round by competing each other and prepare to achieve a national honor.

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