Burlingame Point

Petersen Studio recently completed Construction Observation for the 17-acre Burlingame Point Campus and 3-acre Public Shoreline, just south of the San Francisco International Airport. The campus includes four mid-rise office buildings and an Amenity building organized around a 1,000-foot long central pedestrian mall that connects the campus to the bay.

The mall’s green roof landscape is planted as a hyperbolized coastal prairie, with native seasonal accent plants deliberately exaggerated to mark the changing of the seasons. Programmed plazas and courtyards will accommodate diverse outdoor campus events and activities on weekdays while inviting public usage on weekends. Roof gardens with panoramic views across the bay encourage outdoor work, dining, and social activities.

The project restores several acres of coastal habitat while activating the waterfront with a new Bay Trail, dining plazas, and overlooks that cantilever dramatically from the rip-rap shoreline revetment. Interpretive nodes along the Bay Trail engage visitors in topics such as coastal ecology, sea level rise, and water quality. Approximately eight acres of the central campus landscape is on-structure over two large 1-level podium parking structures, requiring a high degree of technical coordination with project architects and engineers. Burlingame Point is the new home for Meta Reality Labs Headquarters.