Commercial and Workplace Environments Designed with Beauty + Brains

With a career spanning three decades, and a portfolio totaling over 20 million square feet of built construction, architect Ben Parco offers deep expertise in the design and delivery of a wide range of challenging project types spanning across commercial office, higher education, civic, cultural, hospitality, and transportation. 

Through his thoughtful, energetic, and engaging leadership style, Ben calls upon his deep design and market understanding to deliver intelligent projects, which outperform owner expectations, inspire users, and uplift communities. 

Ben offers particular expertise in the architectural design and delivery of commercial and workplace environments including, build-to-suit corporate campuses, adaptive reuse projects, high-rise towers, and urban mixed-use developments. Here he synthesizes best practices across markets and typologies in order to craft uncommon, high-value solutions. 

Over the past 15 years, Ben has led architectural design studios at some of the Bay Area’s top design firms including NBBJ Design, Skidmore Owings and Merrill, and Gensler. At any given time during this period, active projects under Ben’s leadership have totaled between $500M and $3B in construction value. 

Ben’s projects have been embraced by some of the world’s most discerning and influential clients, including Google, Facebook, Apple, Uber, LinkedIn, WeWork, E&J Gallo Winery, Kaiser Permanente, UC Berkeley, the California State University, the San Francisco International Airport, Tishman Speyer, and The Swig Company.