GROUP ONE OFFICE

San Francisco, California

1989

The offices for a video production company occupy the southeast corner of an existing concrete building; open reinforced-concrete skeleton construction allowed the layout of the rooms to be along the support grids. The concrete walls and ceiling are sandblasted and left exposed.  Glass office walls, divided horizontally by aluminum strips, are inserted so that no two walls are parallel—all are set at angles to each other, making a staggered effect.  The result: light and reflection create dynamic, constantly changing visual relationships.

Light and transparency are what Group One is all about.  Jim Jennings has developed a knack of uncompromisingly transposing his idea of a modern, user-related workplace into a uniform whole, planned down to the very last detail.

Jennings shows how great effects can be achieved with simple means.

DBZ (Germany) 10/92