Our client?s brief was straight-forward ? the CEO of this ?Silicon Beach? automotive information and car buying online site ? Edmunds.com - wanted an inventive space, focusing on his 600+ person team ? a space where they could collaborate, team, create, define, recruit, discuss, focus and work however they felt best fit their current assignments. 

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Architects: M+M Creative Studio

Location: Santa Monica, CA, United States

Architects In Charge: Chris Mitchell, Sandra Mitchell

Executive Architect: Lewis/Schoeplein architects

Area: 145000.0 ft2

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Benny Chan
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From the architect. Our client?s brief was straight-forward ? the CEO of this ?Silicon Beach? automotive information and car buying online site ? Edmunds.com - wanted an inventive space, focusing on his 600+ person team ? a space where they could collaborate, team, create, define, recruit, discuss, focus and work however they felt best fit their current assignments. 

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Before - After

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Working with two floors totaling 145,000 SF, we started with the larger moves; first, we harnessed the perimeter of the existing rambling internal atrium as the circulation ?expressway? for both floors, second, we concentrated the larger meeting spaces throu...