Baden came to the company after advising founder Jim Jannard on the design of a home.
"We'd build half of it and tear it down," Baden says.
"We did that a few times." Jannard wanted something inspired by Blade Runner, and while the house was never completed, the company HQ finally delivered on that vision. The typical glass box that is de rigueur for many SoCal corporations just wasn't an option.
Baden recalls: "We said, Why not create something very progressive, but build it as if you didn't know if it was happening a thousand years from now or happened a thousand years before we got here?"
Image: The minimalist design of the area outside CEO Scott Olivet's office feels like part interrogation room, part weapons cache. Just the right mood to keep visitors on their toes -- and employees smirking. | Photograph: Dwight Eschliman
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