LA architecture studio Gehry Partners has completed the extension of media company Warner Bros' headquarters in Burbank, which juxtaposes two distinctive facade styles.
Called Second Century Burbank, the Gehry Partners-designed complex contains additional offices and studios for the headquarters, which is flanked by a major highway and the studio lot.
Its name marks the celebration of the film studio's second hundred years of operation.
Gehry Partners has created a building for Warner Bros in Burbank
Second Century Burbank is divided into two large blocks connected by a two-storey volume that is topped by a landscaped courtyard. The offices and studios are intended for use by Warner Bros and its potential tenants.
For the facades, Gehry Partners married two distinct designs. The first consists of sloping curtain walls with a white frit. These are used across the building's highway-facing elevations and have an "icy white appearance" intended to evoke the form of icebergs.
It features two distinct facade styles
On the side facing the studio lot, these curtain walls are interspersed with steel facades with punched windows modelled on the art deco-style buildings of early Hollywood.
"For the glass facades, we adopted the image of icebergs for the dynamic angled geometry of their vertical faces," Gehry Partners told Dezeen.
The glass facades are based on icebergs
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