The Historic Building at Salesforce Dublin was originally a hotel built in 1883, before undergoing a sensitive renovation to transform it into a space for events and meetings as well as a mix of quiet work areas and social lounges for employees.
The four-story building consists of the west wing and the east wing. To make all floors wheelchair-accessible, an elevator was carefully shoe-horned into the west wing with two bridges that connect it to the east wing. These modern interventions are clearly visible within the interior courtyard — the Winter Garden. Employees use this flexible central space to meet or socialize while surrounded by plants and daylight from the glass roof above. For special events, the raised platform becomes a stage, turning the Garden into an auditorium equipped with event lighting and audio system, acoustical baffles, and video hookups.
The monumental stair in the Main Lobby was carefully restored, including its original iron and wood guardrail, mosaic tile landings, and a pitched skylight. Gentle, sloping walks were incorporated to allow for universal access between the building and the Plaza that connects to the other office buildings on campus.
Bio Mark Cavagnero Associates is a San Francisco-based architecture firm built on a foundation of serving civic, cultural and institutional clients. We approach each project with a focus on the immediate and greater community it will serve. The firm has completed a wide range of architectural and master planning projects based on this ideal, including large and small scale institutional, non-profit, and commercial projects. The firm provides a full range of services, from programming, master planning, site planning and conceptual design, through construction documents and administration.
Other prizes In addition to being well-received by users and the community, our work has garnered more than 100 design awards from local, state, national and international organizations. Mark Cavagnero Associates Architects was honored with the AIA California Council’s 2012 Firm of the Year Award, the highest honor that the organization bestows upon a firm, recognizing distinguished architecture and a culture of mentoring the next generation of architects. The firm ranks in Architect magazine’s 2015 The Architect 50, the ranking of the top 50 architectural firms in the country. Mark Cavagnero was personally honored with the AIA California Council’s 2015 Maybeck Award, a lifetime achievement award often referred to as the “Gold Medal of California.” In every project we design we strive for logic, strength, functional excellence, clarity, sustainability, economical use of materials, and, of course, beauty. Ultimately, the challenge of our work is to build something that authentically represents our core values and innate beliefs: fairness, stability, strength, and openness.
