{"id":262014,"date":"2025-08-25T13:20:41","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T17:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/?post_type=canvasflow&p=262014"},"modified":"2025-08-25T13:20:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T17:20:44","slug":"gensler-200-park-workplace-san-jose-california","status":"publish","type":"id_project","link":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/projects\/gensler-200-park-workplace-san-jose-california\/","title":{"rendered":"This All-Electric Workplace Building Celebrates the Beauty of the City"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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August 25, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n

Words: <\/span>Wanda Lau<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photography: <\/span>Jason O\u2019Rear<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

This All-Electric Workplace Building Celebrates the Beauty of the City<\/h1>\n\n\n

On a burgeoning corner in downtown San Jose, California, a 19-story office building with a sprawling average floor plate of 54,000 square feet could kill the city vibe. But Gensler San Francisco had a solution. Six of what senior associate and technical director Christopher Payne calls \u201csolar canyons\u201d are carved vertically into the structure, breaking up the mass of 200 Park and making the high-rise more respectful of its urban context. \u201cThey also provide scaled neighborhoods between them and give access to terraces that allow a tenant\u2019s business unit to have its own character.\u201d The double-height terraces, or \u201csky bridges,\u201d offer each leasable floor three outdoor spaces with views over downtown and the valley and bring natural light into the core.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inside, Gensler\u2019s hospitality-inspired environments offer a warm counterbalance to its facade of embossed stainless steel. Ash-veneer paneling in the elevator lobby morphs into textural ceiling slats, while indirect lighting grazes a chiseled limestone feature wall. \u201cAs you go up, the finishes become more saturated and punchier,\u201d Payne says. Rift-cut white oak envelops much of the fifth-floor fitness studio; colorful, curvy furnishings\u2014turquoise Nanimarquina ottomans, an expansive Lemmy sectional from Jardan, Anthony Dickens\u2019s Teki\u00f2 circular pendant fixture\u2014add whimsy in the neighboring social club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s not all. Totaling 1.4 million square feet, the LEED Gold\u2013certified, all-electric building is the first project in California to use SpeedCore construction, where prefabricated steel-plate panels do double duty as concrete formwork and structural members. The system shaved off three months in construction and reduced wall thicknesses by 20 percent, adding valuable square footage inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BENEDICT TRANEL; BERT DEVITERBO; NAOMI MOTOMURA; BOB PERRY; MELISSA O\u2019REAR; CHRISTOPHER PAYNE; STEPHEN KATZ; SHUANG XU; ANNA PERICAS; MARWA ISTANBULI.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n