U. S. BORAX HEADQUARTERS

BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA

:: Corporate facility that includes executive and administrative offices, laboratories, a parking structure, and garden courtyards.

:: The landscape communicates the company’s history and expresses their environmental commitment and ethics, portraying abstracted desert images with the use of plant materials, desert stone, and water. The entry forecourt, a “Garden of Twenty,” derives from the company’s historic Twenty Mule Team.

:: Client: U.S. Borax, with Nadel Architects