Office Park’d: SOM Plans to Update Vintage Craig Ellwood in Los Angeles

Much has been written about the changing nature of workplace. In the last decade, cubicles have been banished, warehouses converted, and foosball tables over-referenced. But what to do with the office buildings that once housed the man in the gray wool suit? A recent design by SOM’s Los Angeles office reinvents Craig Ellwood’s tailored office building at 777 Aviation Boulevard, converting the late 1960s steel and glass structure that once was Xerox’s headquarters (previously Scientific Data Systems) into a multi-tenant campus that appeals to El Segundo’s ever-expanding tech set. Suits out, bike racks in.