Perkins&Will Bay Area Workplace and Interiors

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Interior Architecture

San Francisco Studio

TMDA Firm Overview

Founded in 2001 on California Street in San Francisco, our studio prides itself on providing a client-first experience accompanied by intelligent design solutions tailored to our clients’ culture and business objectives. We work collaboratively with the entire project team, from helping our clients interview for the best partners through our strong industry connections to advocating for their needs as the project grows in complexity all while adhering to tight budgets.

We have had the pleasure of successfully completing hundreds of projects that compose our accomplished portfolio from hospitality, commercial, and retail to residential projects. These projects take us from San Francisco to Silicon Valley, New York to Canada, and across the globe from London to Shanghai.

We recently merged with Perkins&Will, an international design firm widely respected for its strengths in sustainable, equitable, and resilient design. Together, we can provide expanded design leadership and a strengthened interiors practice.

“Both Perkins&Will and TMDA believe that cultivating collaborative partnerships with our clients is essential to creating impactful design solutions. We both center our projects on the client’s vision and values, and this merger will add new dimensions to our multi-disciplinary practices of architecture, planning & strategies, urban design, and landscape architecture.”

PERKINS&WILL SAN FRANCISCO

Perkins&Will Firm Overview

Founded in

That’s why clients and communities on nearly every continent partner with us to design healthy, accessible places in which to live, learn, work, play, and heal. We’re passionate about human-centered design, and committed to creating a positive impact in people’s lives through sustainability, resilience, well-being, diversity, inclusion, and research. In fact, we are recognized as one of the foremost design leaders in the world for sustainable architecture, and Fast Company named us one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies in Architecture.

Studios

28 Total Staff

2600+ Staff in San Francisco

90+

Ranked #3 Architecture Firm, 2022 Interior Design Magazine

Key differentiators of our firmwide practice include our data-driven approach to innovative design solutions, and the way in which the spaces we create enhance our clients' business operations. We leverage our clients' brand and cultural identities to envision bespoke workplaces that engage employees and maximize productivity. We don't do cookie-cutter designs. Our solutions are thoughtfully based on the business goals and objectives of the clients we serve.

We believe that design has the power to make the world a better, more equitable place.

Design that respects and restores our environment.

Sustainability

We know sustainability means different things to different people. Whether it’s energy efficiency that matters most to our clients, or healthy indoor air and nontoxic materials— we’ve got all of it covered. Sustainable design is built into our practice.

One of the things we’re most proud of is that, for decades, we’ve led the AEC industry toward exceptional environmental performance. And this leadership has caused a sea change in the way places and spaces are designed and constructed all around the world. Our goal? To keep lighting the way forward.

Living Design

We envision designing a world that creates healthier, thriving ecosystems for all. Our research-backed Living Design framework combines sustainability with other vital elements of a holistically high-performing environment.

High-Performance Buildings

Our SPEED platform is a state-of-the-art digital tool that helps design teams maximize a project’s energy efficiency in a fraction of the time. Created in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy, SPEED allows for considerable upfront and long-term savings for our clients, not to mention exceptional environmental performance.

Carbon Leadership

We helped develop the industry’s most comprehensive free tool for embodied carbon measurement in the built environment. The Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator, or EC3, makes selecting low-carbon materials simpler than ever. By quantifying the carbon impacts of our material selections and supply chain decisions, EC3 helps us radically optimize building performance.

Mass Timber

Our rapidly growing portfolio of timber environments is paving the way for a new generation of sustainable architecture and design. Engineered wood is the new frontier of healthy living, working, and learning.

Carbon-Neutral Business Operations

We’ve always led by example, and our own business operations are a good case study. Over a decade ago, we pledged to reduce our greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in a meaningful, measurable way. By scaling back our business air travel, achieving a minimum of LEED Gold certification for all of our design studios, reducing our use of paper products, and investing in Green-e Certified Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) and carbon offsets, we achieved firmwide carbon neutrality in 2007.

Transparency

We understand that human and planetary health are inextricably linked, and that buildings can have a major impact on both. That’s why we ignited an industry movement in 2008 toward healthy building materials with our Precautionary List and, later, our Transparency portal.

Material Health

Almost two decades of leadership in advocating for the transformation of building products led to our industryleading role within the mindful MATERIALS Collaborative. The mindful MATERIALS Library is a free digital platform that allows design teams and industry professionals to search for products that meet third-party, health-based certifications, declarations, and validations.

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The headquarters for Madison Marquette in Washington, D.C., feature nontoxic materials vetted against our Precautionary List. Abundant daylight and views to the outdoors connect people with nature, and enhanced indoor air quality ensures an optimal working environment.

The U.S. Green Building Council Headquarters Building is a working demonstration of green building leadership.

Selected Projects ―

Redpoint Ventures

San Francisco, California

Client: Redpoint Ventures Size: 12,000 square feet

Completion Date: 2020

― WHAT IT IS

A versatile workspace for a private equity firm in downtown San Francisco.

This 12,000 square foot project at Redpoint Venture’s San Francisco office location was developed in parallel with a second Peninsula location. Our main goal was to create a friendly and warm environment that provided plenty of flexibility for different uses. The roof deck and structural stair connect to a social kitchen tailored for client interaction and collaboration.

The design team focused on creating the ‘Best Business Living Room,” to allay entrepreneur anxiety when visiting to pitch their life’s work product. Additionally, we integrated specialty Zoom backdrops in every room in response to the increased need for video conferencing.

The roof deck and social kitchen are connected by a central stair.

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WHAT MAKES IT COOL

Bespoke furniture and focus on social spaces give this office a ‘resimercial’ feel.

BCG Office Interior

Mountain View, California

Client: Boston Consulting Group, Inc. Size: 22,000 sf

Completion Date: 2017

A collaborative approach to create a modern workplace

We worked with BCG to design their Mountain View workplace. Our design goal was to create a highly sustainable, modern office that fulfilled their guidelines for developing spaces.

This project was comprised of a full interior fit-out to position and transform the building, as well as exterior signage and sustainability certification. We focused on creating welcoming gathering spaces, through the playful use of color and acoustic materials. This townhall feel is highlighted by a huge AV wall at the entry, as well as the stair that serves as a speaking podium in the double-height room.

The flexible meeting spaces that make use of creative wall coverings to add elements of surprise and playfullness, as well as enhanced AV delivery contribute to a unique design that fosters collaboration among consultants and clients.

― WHAT IT IS Interior fit-out to reflect the company's entrepreneurial spirit.

Clockwise from Top Left: Employee gathering space; Office space; Reception area.

BCG Office Interior

Austin, Texas

A collaborative approach to create a modern workplace

We worked with BCG to design their Austin workplace. Our design goal was to create a highly sustainable, modern office that fulfilled their guidelines for developing spaces.

This project was comprised of a full interior fit-out to position and transform the building, as well as exterior signage and sustainability certification. We focused on creating flexible meeting spaces and integrating enhanced AV delivery. The result was a vibrant, welcoming workplace that represents the company's identity.

It was important that this project blended in with the local area and community. Along with the work of local artists, we implanted imagery of raw building material to contrast an otherwise corporate building shell.

― WHAT IT IS

Vibrant interior fit-out that highlights local art while maintaining corporate identity.

The office has a variety of flexible options for collaboration.

Above: A muralist was comissioned to add locally influenced artwork in many conference room walls.

Bessemer Venture Partners

San Francisco, California

Client: Bessemer Venture Partners

Size: 13,000 square feet

Completion Date: 2017

This New York and Peninsula-based investment firm expanded to San Francisco to support developing their city-based investment strategy. We helped them create a light and airy office space with a sophisticated feel for their clients.

The 13,000 square foot space offers city views and lots of natural light. Custom lighting and wood furniture bring warmth to common areas to invite social gathering.

→ Traditional workstations are combined with versatile collaboration spaces to offer flexibility.

The wooden dining table in the kitchen area invites social interaction and creates a central gathering space.

Bessemer Venture Partners

New Work Environments

South San Francisco, California

Client: Confidential

Size: 5,000 - 40,000 square feet

Completion Date: Ongoing

The New Work Environments program allows employees to work in diverse neighborhoods equipped with personal storage, flexible meeting spaces of varying sizes, and many casual seating options. Just as the nature of teamwork has evolved to embrace collaboration, the teaming zones are adaptable and unconstrained by conventional physical desks, computers, or files.

New Work Environments projects are about more than just the physical space. They are defined by the commitment of the client to consider the social, technological, and physical space aspects, all driving towards a “Work Better” concept. These environments are a balanced mix of different space types (open, enclosed, individual, and collaborative) to support project teams. The projects are phased renovations in occupied office space and include open office with 100% unassigned seating.

― WHAT IT IS

Next generation opportunities call for innovative work environment approaches.

New Workplace Strategy in Action

Our team has worked actively to deploy and test this new workplace strategy by allowing each previous project to influence the next. Completed projects provide not only great places to work, but rolling inputs translate into even better designs for subsequent New Work Environments projects.

Pattern Energy

San Francisco, California

A casual space that invites collaboration

Our team helped this wind power development firm transition from a traditional hierarchical environment to a more contemporary workspace. We created a variety of flexible working spaces that blend well with a double-floor social kitchen that is used as a central gathering space.

Versatile amenities and an open floor plan take the place of private offices and conventional workstations to create a welcoming and playful office environment.

― WHAT IT IS Interior fit out for a wind power company to modernize their workplace.

The emphasis on alternative solutions to the traditional workstation gives employees plenty of flexibility.

Advent Technologies

Palo Alto, California

Client: Advent Technologies

Size: 25,000 square feet

Completion Date: 2021

New West Coast location for this global private equity firm establishes Advent's position as a new investment force in the Bay Area. The 25,000 square foot space prioritizes high quality design with elegant decor and finishes. The lobby and amenity spaces are more residential design inspired to create a comfortable environment for both clients and employees. Rich spaces not typical of workplace design reflect a desire for a more dynamic post-COVID work environment.

― WHAT MAKES IT COOL

Club space behind a secret door provides a special place to celebrate and initiate new clients and aquisitions.

Private Equity Firm

Menlo Park, California

Client: Confidential

Size: 18,000 square feet

Completion Date: 2021

We provided interior design services for this Private Equity office in a new mixed-use development in Menlo Park. The main design focus was to create a welcoming and flexible space that centered employee comfort and wellbeing.

Rich wall coverings, coffered ceilings, and natural materials create a high-end, yet accessible workplace.

The client wanted flexible spaces that could transition easily from formal meetings to casual gathering areas, so the board room doubles as an all-hands space.

― WHAT IT IS

A full interior fit out for a private equity firm in Menlo Park.

The emphasis on natural materials creates a welcoming and comfortable environment.

The office features plenty of natural light.

SurveyMonkey

San Mateo, California

Client: SurveyMonkey Size: 200,000 square feet

Completion Date: 2019

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We provided interior design services for SurveyMonkey's offices in Palo Alto, San Mateo (pictured here), Emeryville, Portland, and Ottawa. The 200,000 square-foot San Mateo location includes a roofdeck, lobby, and full cafeteria.

Unique gathering spaces foster collaboration and also provide places for heads down work.

SurveyMonkey brand elements are incorporated throughout the space, reinforcing company identity and culture.

WHAT IT IS Amenity-rich workplace for a large tech company.

Accel

Palo Alto, California

Client: Accel

Size: 23,000 square feet

Completion Date: 2018

The team focused on creating unique, creative spaces that focused on employee and client experience.

This three story, 23,000 square foot building is the flagship for Accel’s Palo Alto location. Our team was responsible for overseeing core and shell construction and sophisticated integration of interiors with base building lobby, restrooms, roof deck, wayfinding, and landscaping.

The design team focused on dramatic quality interiors appropriate for institutional investment profile relationships. We took a residential approach to furniture and finishes to complement the partner working styles for both formal and casual in-person meetings.

Our success on this project led to a second location in San Francisco equal in scale and complexity.

Dramatic

Custom wood slab conference tables bring warmth to the office

Employee Center

South San Francisco, California

Client: Confidential Client Size: 74,613 square feet

Completion Date: 2016 Sustainability: LEED

Gold ® , WELL Certified ™ Gold Awards: Building Health Leadership Award, Green Health Partnership, 2019

Employee Center

The new Employee Center project is an amenities building for staff of an innovative company’s headquarters campus in South San Francisco. This is the second in a series of projects that will optimize adjacencies within the campus. The new Employee Center is a physical embodiment of the client’s emphasis on being a great place to work. More than the sum of its parts, the center celebrates the company’s forty groundbreaking years and its employees’ extraordinary contributions to that success.

encourages movement.

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WHAT MAKES IT COOL

The Employee Center program includes a Campus Fitness Center, PI Helpdesk, CareerLab, Campus Health Center, Store, Campus Ergo Showroom, and MyConcierge—all of which strongly reinforce the company’s mission of caring for its employees and promoting wellbeing.

The Employee Center embraces environmental sustainability, energy conservation, and universal design, and is LEED Gold and WELL Gold certified.

Active staircase

Our Team

Tim Murphy Design Principal

Stephanie Kwan Senior Project Manager

Jaclyn Guasco Senior Project Designer

Jane Greenthal Director, Planning & Strategies