设计师：Eric Owen Moss Architects
位置：美国 加利福尼亚
The Beehive is the corporate headquarters for medschool.com. A two-storey dilapidated building was removed from the site and a new two-storey steel structure was built over its footprint. The Beehive， as it was dubbed by the client， was designed as an iconic image to both attract the attention of the passing four-lane high-speed traffic and create an identity for the company. The second-floor conference room is equipped to accommodate multimedia design presentations and doubles as a lounge with a built-in kitchen for the tenants. Stairs lead up from the entrance to the conference room and continue up， forming a roof-level deck with spectacular views of the park across the street and downtown Los Angeles to the east. A pyramidal skylight in the centre of the Beehive lights the conference room， stairs and main entrance.
Curved horizontal pipe-beams at 1.2-metre (4-foot) intervals set up a framework for the cladding - a shingle system of glass planes and thin sheet metal walls that is used on both the interior and exterior. The cladding is dictated by the orientation on the site -the west wall of the Beehive is metal to block the harsh sunlight and the northern side is glass to allow in natural light. The rest of the building is more conservative and uses less expensive materials to capitalise on the areas of the biggest investment and maximum use and design consequences. The internal space is a combination of flexible open work areas， private offices and meeting rooms. Due to the configuration of the site， skylights were designed throughout the space to bring natural light into the landlocked workspace. The Beehive and adjacent buildings are set back from the street to create a garden plaza. Sodded earth mounds were built up to form a semi-private area along the busy street and configured with steps， mounds and plateaus， The landscape also inventively addresses safety by effectively preventing vehicle access into the plaza without using traditional methods such as bollards or fences.