San Antonio Station is a landscape and architectural retrofit project that transforms an introverted site into an open, connected, and flexible campus landscape. Originally Mayfield Mall, California’s first enclosed shopping mall, the reinvigorated site is named after its proximity to a Caltrain station. The property boasts 500,000 sf of ready-built office space in the heart of Silicon Valley, and is just 45 minutes from San Francisco by train but lacked the improvements needed for the tech office space environment. The master plan for the project emphasizes landscape amenities and thoughtful circulation, and melds an efficient plan with the site’s existing character. The landscape design takes inspiration from the 1960s graphics and geometries popularized during its earlier iteration as well as from existing structures and materials.
The final design is an eclectic campus landscape that borrows from the character of the old to create a great new place to work, winning the 2015 Structures Award for Best Reuse/Rehab from the Silicon Valley Business Journal.
Giant Interactive Headquarters
SWA collaborated with Morphosis Architects on a new ecological park and living laboratory for Giant Interactive Headquarters, a 45-acre corporate campus in Shanghai, China. The design concept blurs the distinction between the ground plane and the structure, weaving water and wetland habitats together with the folded green roof of the main building design. The ...
Poly Dawangjing Office Complex
SWA’s landscape design for the Poly Dawangjing Office Building Complex draws on fluidity, suggesting pebbles (the development’s three towers) set within the intersection of two waterway corridors. The landscape forms of the drop-off courts, central arrival plaza, and planting areas are also characteristic of this fluvial influence. Broad ribbons of riparian ve...
Xingfa Cement Plant Renovation
Located next to a public rural quarry park, Xingfa Cement Plant is set to be transformed into a national advance science research facility, contributing to the establishment of Huairou Science City. The team of landscape architects and architects worked in close collaboration to preserve valuable cement factory buildings, production structures, existing trees,...
Westlake Corporate Campus
Westlake Corporate Campus is a new 107-acre corporate training facility and retreat center for Deloitte LLP. Formerly, Deloitte had conducted new employee training, team building and continuing education workshops at various hotel sites across the United States. The project encompasses indoor/outdoor classroom facilities, recreation and many other retreat type...