Reimagining Santa Clara’s Architectural Scene with Thirty75 Tech

Header: Tim Griffith Photography

Offices don’t have to be all about profits, deals, or markets, there’s also space for creativity and uniqueness. Santa Clara, adorned with its many business playgrounds and freeways, has recently adopted a new out-of-the-box space: Thirty75 Tech.

This shiny new building was designed for MDY Properties Inc. by architecture studio Verse Design Los Angeles, in partnership with lighting design studio HLB Lighting Design and construction company Truebeck Construction. Such a gem deserves recognition, that’s why the project has recently been awarded the Architectural Design – Commercial prize at the 2023 BLT Built Design Awards.

Performance and Expression

Trends are not only a phenomenon fashionistas and interior design lovers care about, turns out even the most practical sides of society have a weakness for what’s hot. Santa Clara, for example, has a thing for ‘Class-A’ offices, which basically is a building with glazed facades that is also energy efficient.

The project’s lead designers, Paul R. Tang and Courtenay Bauer, along with their design team, needed to reconcile the trend with the quest for spectacle: the result is a harmonious blend of performance and expression.

Along with the sought-after glazed facade, the team introduced fixed aluminium louvres to the recipe, which were created strategically to accommodate performative, aesthetic, formal, and physical requirements. The building’s narrative is a blend of needs and style, all perfectly in sync with the surrounding urban environment.

As the day goes by, Thirty75 Tech‘s facade comes alive as it interacts with time and light shifting, giving the viewer an array of different visual phenomena – ‘boring’ would never be a word used by the onlookers. As memories are erased and rewritten by the hour, the design becomes the definition of architecture: unique, necessary, and mesmerizing.

In the studio’s own words, Verse Design Los Angeles is “a progressive firm that is committed to the creation of quality architecture and sensible design“. With Thirty75 Tech, they’ve given Santa Clara a building that doesn’t just occupy space but interacts with it, breathes with it, and evolves with it.

Please be sure to visit the BLT Built Design Awards‘ website to find the list of projects recognised this year.