Adobe HQ Founders Tower - San Jose, California.
Honoring Creativity & Community
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The Adobe Founders Tower is an 18-story expansion to the company's Silicon Valley headquarters, designed for a hybrid work experience with sustainability, creativity, and community at its core. It features flexible workspaces, exterior and interior artistic installations, and is LEED Gold certified. This project serves as a future-forward workplace model emphasizing Adobe's commitment to its mission to power the world’s creative digital experiences, and an ode to the San Jose community.
All photos on this page by Dominique Graves
Completed
2023
Budget
$10MM+
Role
Workplace Design Program Manager
As the Workplace Design Program Manager for the Adobe Founders Tower project, I managed the brand design and art installations execution, reflecting Adobe and San José's creative legacies. My team and I collaborated with the Adobe Brand Team, the Sares Regis Group, Gensler, and artists including Leo Bersamina, Leah Rosenberg, and Hou de Sousa to integrate their pieces into the tower’s storytelling, creating an inspiring gathering space in the bridge and courtyard connecting the existing campus with the new expansion.
Creativity Blooms by Hou de Sousa
This art installation is a fusion of art, science, and technology that reimagines the pedestrian bridge as a living, glowing connection point. The work features a series of tree-like sculptures, each defined by a unique spectrum of color and geometric form, designed to immerse visitors in a surreal and exploratory experience.
At night, the installation becomes a dynamic part of the San José skyline. A vibrant light display begins at street level from the Adobe logo and ascends the sculptures, creating the illusion of "roots" spreading light and life across the structure. The project highlights the relationship between creativity and technology by using light and form to transform public space.
Community Self Portrait by Leo Bersamina
This large scale mural on the exterior of Founders Tower, draws upon Bersamina's background in painting, photography, and sculpture to explore themes of memory, ethnic identity, and spirituality.
The mural's composition is a visual representation of Bersamina's philosophy, capturing the patterns and models created through human relationships, experience, and heritage. By weaving together references to his German, Mexican (Indigenous American), Filipino, Portuguese, and French ancestry, the artist creates a unique and compelling community self-portrait.
The final installation translates this concept into a striking visual language, bringing a meaningful piece of public art to the cityscape.