Project Details
- Project Name
- Slack HQ
- Location
- CA
- Architect
- Studio O+A
- Interior Designer
- Studio O+A
- Project Types
- Office
- Size
- 300,000 sq. feet
- Year Completed
- 2018
- Shared by
- Elizabeth Vereker
- Team
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Primo Orpilla,
Dan Kretchmer,
Dani Canepa,
Millie Kwong,
Brianna Bernstein,
Amy Kwok,
Nikki Hall,
Marbel Padilla,
Amy Young,
Chase Lunt,
Elizabeth Vereker,
George Craigmyle,
Emily Cano,
Samantha Calabrese,
Alex Bautista,
- Project Status
- Built
Project Description
When Slack asked O+A to create its new multi-floor headquarters in San Francisco one design story presented itself immediately. Slack’s CEO Stewart Butterfield is an outdoorsman, a hiker who goes off the grid every year and recharges in the various types of wilderness—desert, mountains, forest—that make up the Pacific Crest Trail. Because that trail forms a bridge between two of Slack’s offices in Vancouver and San Francisco it seemed a thematic link too rich to pass up. O+A’s concept was to create a floor-by-floor evocation of those landscapes—in effect to turn a trip up the elevator into a virtual trip from Baja to the Pacific Northwest. The idea was to suggest not just a variety of topographical and botanical contexts but to capture, as well, the experiential links between hiking a wilderness trail—and work.
