Telegraph Tower, Oakland Office Development, Californian Office Interior, Architecture Images
Telegraph Tower in Oakland, California
Feb 5, 2020
Telegraph Tower
Design: Solomon Cordwell Buenz
Location: Oakland, Northern California, USA

Award-winning architecture, interior design, and planning firm Solomon Cordwell Buenz (SCB) has revealed new renderings of the firm?s latest project in Oakland, Telegraph Tower. The project, developed by TMG Partners and endorsed by Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf as a key element of Uptown Oakland’s development, provides 875,000-square-feet of next generation office space with large floorplates, high ceilings, the latest technology, and best-in-class building amenities. SCB is both the architect and interior designer for the project.
The architectural design of the 28-story tower is balanced between Oakland?s industrial past and the city?s future as a growing business hub. Its angular form and glazed massing create a contemporary image that is framed by an industrial-inspired patinaed metal seam that runs throughout the building. The building?s volumes are shifted to create roof terraces on the sixth, eighteenth, and twenty-eighth floors, providing west-facing views of the San Francisco Bay.

?Telegraph Tower represents a new design approach to urban office towers. We were really influenced by the uniqueness of Oakland as a place, from the varying scales of the existing urban fabric, to the rich materiality of its industrial past, to th...