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Beats by Dr. Dre Headquarters
Culver City, California
DESCRIPTION
- Collaborated with Bestor Architecture, LMA, AMA Engineers, and HBC to transform two warehouse buildings into an award winning headquarters for Beats by Dr. Dre.
- Tenant improvement for Beats by Dre
- New 5-story, 560 space parking structure
SCOPE
- Provided structural engineering and construction administration services for core and shell and tenant improvement work in office buildings
ACHIEVEMENTS
- Created large diaphragm openings, numerous wall openings, and new sawtooth roofs with clerestory windows at 8550 Higuera
- Seismic retrofit with steel rods, wall anchors and cross ties to meet current code requirements
- Worked closely with the project soils engineer to re-use existing conventional foundations where possible at the existing building columns
- Collaborated with the team to accommodate a variety of spaces including: executive, sales, marketing, finance, and administration departments, as well as a state of the art acoustical testing lab
- Large decks for indoor/outdoor environment
- Designed and built both office buildings in less than one year
- Regarded as one of the World’s Coolest Offices by inc.om
- Photos by Jasper Sanidad