Valerio Dewalt Train recently renovated VMWare's Promontory headquarters campus in Palo Alto, consisting of five 80,000-square-foot two-story office buildings on a 29-acre site, to allow the company to increase headcount, facilitate collaboration, and transition to a mostly open office layout.
Read MoreVDT has once again entered the AIA’s annual Film Challenge. Our submission explores the collaboration between Cal Poly, Valerio Dewalt Train and the yak titʸu titʸu yak tiłhini.
Read MoreVMWare, a global software company that provides cloud computing and virtualization software and services, recently hired architecture firm Valerio Dewalt Train to design their new headquarters in Palo Alto, California.
Read More“Designed by the architecture firm Valerio Dewalt Train, the office covers 133,000 square feet and spans two stories of the Mart. Yelp's Chicago office occupied only one story of the building when it first opened, back in 2015, but the staff grew quickly. By 2016, the team needed another floor, which Yelp connected to the first with a staircase.” -Mae Rice, Built in Chicago
Read MoreEngineering firm Graef will ask its employees to pack up their desks in the Honey Creek Corporate Center just before the holiday break in December. When the 150 workers return at the end of the year, it will be at the new headquarters office in the top floor of the former Shops of Grand Avenue, in the middle of Milwaukee’s most active downtown neighborhood for new development.
Read MoreMatt Chiera, Founder and CEO of Ice Nine Online, led a Digital Marketing workshop at Cushing in Chicago where he covered a range of topics related to industry marketing.
Read More“Throughout the design processes, Torti Gallas + Partners, Kindness Architecture + Planning, and Entelechy for Westlawn Gardens, and Valerio Dewalt Train Associates for Tree Lane prioritized the voices of the communities that the developments would be serving.” -Katherine Flynn, Architect Magazine
Read MoreMedia-Objectives had two projects honored at this year’s SEGD Global Design Awards: Cal Poly Student Housing in the ‘Placemaking and Identity’ category as well as the YouTube Lobby in the ‘Interactive Experience’ category.
Read MoreMedia-Objectives had two projects honored at this year’s Core77 Awards. Their work for Adobe Hooper in San Francisco and in Cal Poly Student Housing in San Luis Obispo was recognized in the Visual Communication category.
Read MoreCrowdsourced review site Yelp has a new Chicago office in The Mart, designed by Valerio Dewalt Train, that speaks to its company culture. “At its core, Yelp’s business is fueled by the candid, varied opinions of the masses. These consumer reviews expose and reveal their unvarnished personal experiences of commerce,” says David Jennerjahn, principal at Valerio Dewalt Train. “Yelp’s offices embrace a similar exposed honesty in the design of the workspace.”
Read MoreValerio Dewalt Train and Media-Objectives receive an IIDA Illinois Red Award in the Retail category for the design of the Moen and House of Rohl Showrooms.
Read MoreWith dramatic views of the Chicago skyline, Balyasny Asset Management's third location provides the firm a motivating open floor plan for connectivity, moving away from their once traditional office layout. Valerio Dewalt Train were engaged by Balyasny Asset Management for the third time to design their new offices located in Chicago, Illinois.
Read MoreValeio Dewalt Train received an honorable mentioned for the AIA Chicago’s Disuptive Design Award. The entry was displayed at the awards ceremony.
Read More“Trained as an architect at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Yale University, Bhatty is now shaping spaces to suit clients' needs. When Valerio Dewalt Train Associates was designing a large office space for a tech firm in California, she contributed to the design of the "collaboration pockets," where repetitive wooden screens create the different levels of transparency that small groups might prefer for one type of work or another.” -Dennis Rodkin, Crain’s Chicago Business
Read More“After successful projects for BAM in New York and San Francisco, the team at Valerio Dewalt Train again worked closely with the BAM real estate and leadership teams to establish planning and aesthetic goals for the project. The team stayed consistent with a clean modern aesthetic while using a new set of finishes and materials that better suited the light and glassy feel of the building BAM would call home.” -Officelovin’
Read More“Miles Stemper, who’s implemented recessed illumination in various multi-unit residential projects, concurs: “It’s desirable to make spaces like basements feel open and bright. Often the best thing to do is create even overall illumination and complement that with lighter finishes,” says Miles Stemper, an architectural designer at Valerio Dewalt Train.” -Sheila Kim, Residential Products Online
Read More“Enter the team at Valerio Dewalt Train, who reduced the double-height atrium to its metallic structure illuminated by a full-length skylight. A green wall and stacked benches on the north side offer room to socialize. But the heart of the project is a digital wall. ” -Jesse Dorris, Interior Design Magazine
Read More“Yelp, a consumer review platform that connects people with their favourite places, recently reached out to architecture firm Valerio Dewalt Train to design an expansion of their Midwest office in Chicago, Illinois. ” -Office Lovin’
Read More“Flexible meeting and event space, state-of-the-art technology including high-speed Wi-Fi, event-planning services, on-site gourmet chef, unlimited drinks and snacks, tech-enabled meeting rooms along with lounge, dining and reception areas.” -Crain’s Business, Chicago
Read More"The “sideways house” suggests a new paradigm for Chicago’s 25’ wide by 125’ deep typical lot. The house is turned to face a ten foot wide linear garden running from street to alley. The house is considered as six 20’ long modules with an overall length of 120’. From street to alley the parade of uses are: 1. second bedroom/second living unit, 2. kitchen/storage, 3. living room, 4. master bedroom, 5. open garden, and 6. workroom/garage.
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