Mixed Use

Mixed-use projects are a reflection and response to an urban fabric. As designers introducing a new building, DES provides functionality, flexibility, and beauty to match local environments. Our design language reflects textures, materials, colors, scale, as well as overall character and style of a neighborhood.

Tech

The design of today’s workplace has become increasingly directed towards expressing company culture, facilitating teamwork, and creating a sense of place. DES designs workplaces that support employees to work creatively and productively – from large collaboration areas to quick touchdown spaces – balancing the needs of both employee and employer. DES uses innovative workplace strategies to determine priorities for each client, while leveraging real estate and operating costs.

Life Science

As the epicenter of innovation, the San Francisco Bay Area’s science and technology industry demands environments flexible enough for people to effortlessly transition from workplace to research and back. DES understands that in order to keep pace with product and service advancements, science and technology work environments must support their ever-evolving needs. Our science and technology practice group has the insight and experience to create dynamic spaces to serve the industry’s top innovators.

Education

Innovative educational design assists with the logical connection between the subjects students are studying and the world around them. DES understands learning spaces well. Since 1994, we have designed over 1,000 school and college projects, representing about 20% of our portfolio. This breadth of experience means that our educational projects benefit from our strong familiarity with the qualities inherent to great schools, ones that inspire students to discover, teachers to educate, and staff to lead.

Healthcare

Today’s healthcare approach embraces the idea of prevention – taking action of one self’s health now for a better future. Shifting from reactive to proactive. DES’ designs of health & wellness facilities reflect this transformation, focusing on quality of workplace for caregivers, creating comfortable experiences for patients, and integrating new technologies that enhance healthcare delivery. Since 1987, DES has completed over 300 healthcare projects – from community clinics and surgery centers to dental suites and labs.

Mixed Use

Mixed-use projects are a reflection of and response to an urban fabric. As designers introducing a new building, DES provides functionality, flexibility, and beauty to match local environments. Our design language reflects textures, materials, colors, scale, as well as overall character and style of a neighborhood.

851 Main Street

Southline

181 Fremont Public Lobbies

400 Main

265 Lytton

3045 Park Blvd

Tech

Today’s workplace emphasizes expressing company culture, facilitating teamwork, and creating a sense of place. We design workplaces that support creative and productive work, balancing the needs of employee and employer. DES uses innovative workplace strategies to determine priorities for each client, while leveraging real estate and operating costs.

Moffett Towers II

Tech Company

Oracle

Bluebeam

Private Equity Firm

Moffett Place

Life Science

As the epicenter of innovation, the San Francisco Bay Area’s life science industry demands environments flexible enough for people to effortlessly transition from workplace to research and back. Our life science practice group has the insight and experience to create dynamic spaces to serve the industry’s top innovators and their ever-evolving needs.

The Cove

PacBio HQ

Gilead Sciences B309

The Shore at Sierra Point

Roche Sequencing

Grail HQ

Education

Innovative educational design assists with the connection between the subjects students study and the world around them. Since 1994, we have designed over 1,000 school and college projects. Our educational projects benefit from our breadth of experience and familiarity with great schools—ones that inspire students to discover, teachers to educate, and staff to lead.

Skyline B12

Design Tech High School

Woodland School

UC Irvine: Biological Sciences

UC Irvine: Stem Cell Research

De Anza: Performing Arts Center

Healthcare

Today’s healthcare approach embraces the idea of prevention. Our health & wellness facility designs reflect this shift from reactive to proactive, focusing on quality of workplace for caregivers, creating comfortable experiences for patients, and integrating new technologies that enhance healthcare delivery. Since 1987, we’ve completed over 300 healthcare projects.

Crossover Near-Site Center

UC Irvine: Eye Institute

Sutter Health Almaden Clinic

Facebook Health Center

Fair Oaks Health Center

Petaluma Health Center