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.

“The aspiration was to investigate a changing exterior form and a varying interior space: to construct a building that remakes both outside and inside,” Eric Owen Moss commented the Stealth Building, which also home of Ogilvy & Mather. One of three existing industrial structures was demolished in order to allow access to the area, leaving a huge cavity while block wall enclosed the two remaining buildings. Rather than filling the hole, it was adjusted to form an 850-seat theater and a sunken public garden, with seating on the stage perimeter and in the garden. Offices are on the above floors. The fact that most of the ground level was dedicated to flexible outdoor public use was received with considerable appreciation by the local community.

The 325 foot spectacular geometric form and visible transition in section from four sided south end to the triangle north end. The Stealth Building section varies constantly over its length, three becoming four, four becoming three. The interior was assembled to accommodate three clients who would benefit from contemporary flexible environment reflects non hierarchical open office plans including some private offices, media production and editing areas, lounges and kitchens, and a central glazed lobby. The Stealth Building has become an urban landmark, which boosting business investment in the area by 200 percent and property values by 500 percent.

The Stealth Building is accessed through a glass-enclosed lobby at grade. The north wing of the raised two-story office block is a large floor with an open mezzanine, and the south wing provided two more conventionally enclosed floor levels. The area adjacent to the lobby is a garden, sunlit from the south and west. The exterior bridges and mezzanine level take advantage of the Southern California climate and increases the area of possible open seating, lounge and informal gathering areas for the tenants. Eric Owen Moss seems conscious to decide whether to provide a building that had a distinct identity to which potential tenants could identify with their company. The building’s location near a major thoroughfare in Culver City and as a building that serves as a public gate to a campus like site behind it, makes this identity even more bolder.

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