Foundry Square is a complex of four architecturally-linked, 10-story mid-rise buildings located at Howard and First Streets near the

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neighborhood of

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. Each of the four buildings stands on a different corner of the street. Each building is a

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structure. The four structures combined provide a total interior area of . The design team included STUDIOS Architecture, Jim Jennings Architecture, Page & Turnbull,

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, and

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SWA Group. The developer was Wilson Equity Office (now Wilson Meany). The Glazing Contractor used on these buildings was

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. Current tenants include the law firm of

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, STUDIOS Architecture, the headquarters of

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, and the

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Entrepreneurial Center. The project's first phase, Foundry Square II (405 Howard Street) and Foundry Square IV (500 Howard Street), was completed in 2003. The third building, Foundry Square I (400 Howard Street), was completed in 2007. In April 2012,

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acquired the entitlements to the final building, Foundry Square III (505 Howard Street), from Wilson Meany Sullivan, and broke ground later that year. Foundry Square III was completed in April 2014. The contained within Foundry Square's four open corners form a larger, unified public square. Each building's dual-glaze glass walls frame the square, establishing an arcade that defines the transition between interior building space and public exterior spaces. The four corners of the intersection are integrated by the use of public art and sculpture (such as Richard Deutsch's "Time Signature" stainless steel sculpture),Bennett, Richard. "At the Engineering Facility on the Stanford Campus, He Created an 'Axis' of Stone." ''Oakland Tribune.'' May 6, 2007; "Annual Guide '09." ''Art in America.'' New York: Brant Art Publications, 2009, p. 3; STUDIOS Architecture. ''Buildings: Innovation + Technology.'' Mulgrave, Victoria, Australia: Images Publishing, 2009, p. 90. tree

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s, ground-floor cafes, and over-scaled pots. The project earned SWA Group the ASLA Northern California Chapter Merit Award in 2006.

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