1. H. Hendy Associates
4770 Campus Drive • Newport Beach, CA 92660 • 949.851.3080 • 949.851.0807 (F)
www.hhendy.com
Reprinted from the book Corporate Interiors No.10

2. H. Hendy Associates
The Wave Equity Partners
Aliso Viejo, California
Entrepreneurs often spot for start-up businesses to room, the office incorporates
special opportunities in develop until they can afford numerous other, smaller
seemingly ordinary places, their own space, on the meeting areas, and worksta-
and the recent renovation of ground floor, with access tions are custom designed
a two-story, 10,000-square- to the warehouse, and the to minimize their footprints.
foot office building and corporate office and founda- From a visionary beginning,
warehouse, in Aliso Viejo, tion office upstairs. The cool, the project has arrived at
California, by the owner of highly detailed and largely an inspiring destination
The Wave Equity Partners, an open workplace of white and that has prompted the cli-
Orange County Investment gray finishes, accented by ent to declare, “This office
and Managment firm, horizontals of warm wood, design exceeds our highest
illustrates the impressive pos- reflects the client’s desire for expectations.”
sibilities. To fulfill the client’s a highly flexible yet seamless
goal of housing his corporate contemporary environment
office, foundations office evoking an Apple Store.
and incubator for start-up Despite the openness of the Left: Private office
businesses in the building, H. environment, the design Below left: Reception area
Hendy Associates designed uses space intensively. For Below: Lunchroom
a scheme placing the example, since multiple busi- Opposite: Conference room
incubator, a temporary facility nesses share one conference Photography: Tom Sibley
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3. H. Hendy Associates
Green Street Advisors
Newport Beach, California
A firm engaging young Ivy Beach, California, designed accept the change? The new low and finished in wood, to relieve long hours of
League professionals in inde- by H. Hendy Associates. space confronts the question and the main conference demanding work. Assessing
pendent research, trading Green Street intended from by upgrading the relocation room includes a banquette. the design, Warner Griswold,
and consulting, concentrat- the start to create a sophis- for everyone, combining There is built-in bench seat- Green Street’s chief operating
ing on REITs, Green Street ticated, California beach openness with transparency, ing elsewhere to encourage officer, has commented, “We
Advisors has successfully feel. But there was a catch: group activity areas, and top official and impromptu couldn’t be much happier
rebranded itself by relocating Opening up space meant quality finishes. Accordingly, meetings, and the lunchroom with our space and with
from a warren of nondescript relinquishing private offices glass walls enclose private is equipped with appliances, Hendy.”
suites to a striking and vastly in favor of open worksta- offices to transmit natural stocked with beverages and
more open, 12,873-square- tions. Would the firm’s light and views deep inside, snacks, and furnished with
foot office, in Newport high-powered employees workstation partitions remain solid, comfortable furnishings
Above left: Open workstations
Above right: Lunchroom
Right: Main conference room
Opposite: Reception
Photography: Craig Dugan/
Hedrich Blessing
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4. H. Hendy Associates Haskell & White
Irvine, California
Design becomes a strategic For Haskell & White, one of Everyone knew the previ- members are present only 20 its tradition of teamwork evident everywhere, including
tool for knowledgeable Orange County’s largest, lo- ous office’s shortcomings. percent at certain times— through a contemporary the training room, kitchen
businesses and their design cally owned accounting and However, while the new Haskell & White questioned space offering a “work any- and lunchroom, where an
firms, as visitors can observe consulting firms, moving to layout, located in an Irvine the effect on its culture, where” approach that gives exposed ceiling evokes the
at the new, one-floor, this inviting facility combines Company high-rise, could which openly acknowledges everyone a private office or previous office’s balconies
19,000-square-foot office more space and greater easily accommodate growth the accomplishments of its workstation but anticipates so employee accomplish-
of Haskell & White, in efficiency with “hoteling,” a and alternative/telecom- teams. H. Hendy’s design switching to hoteling if nec- ments can still be celebrated
Irvine, California, designed new, alternative office solu- muter officing—especially solution addresses the firm’s essary. Meanwhile, reminders “outdoors.”
by H. Hendy Associates. tion, to maximize flexibility. for the Audit Group, whose growing pains as well as of the value of teamwork are
Above: Lunchroom
Above right: Hoteling area
Right: View from reception to
corridor
Far right: Reception and main
conference room
Opposite top: Main conference
room
Photography: Craig Dugan/
Hedrich Blessing
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5. H. Hendy Associates
Overland, Pacific & Cutler, Inc.
Long Beach, California
To manage a 200 percent nation, Overland, Pacific & and combining them with an
hold-over cost, a turnkey Cutler wanted its new prem- up-mounted frameless glass
construction budget of $55/ ises to exemplify space ef- riser to transmit daylight and
square foot, a tight construc- ficiency, energy conservation, views, a custom-designed
tion schedule and a triple-net and cost effectiveness within dimmable pendant light
lease holding it responsible a LEED-like installation quite fixture, suspended from the
for operating costs, Overland, unlike its conservative former exposed ceiling that provides
Pacific & Cutler turned to premises and mostly private high quality light plus a 33
H. Hendy Associates to offices. H. Hendy Associates’ percent energy savings—and
design its new, one-floor, solution introduces a con- the reinstallation of the firm’s
11,000-square-foot office temporary environment of iconic fish tank in a harmoni-
at Douglas Park, a planned mostly open workstations in ous new setting.
business park in Long an industrial aesthetic that
Beach, California converted is surprisingly welcoming.
from a former McDonnell Among the innovative touch- Far left: Corridor
Douglas aircraft factory. But es making the new facility Below left: Reception with
seating and fish tank
more was at stake. A real popular with employees and
Below right: Office showing
estate consulting company visitors are modified existing open workstation
serving public agencies and workstations, lowering the Photography: Craig Dugan/
businesses throughout the furniture system’s panels Hedrich Blessing
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