Ramping It Up.

The article describes the HLW-designed Los Angeles, California headquarters of Red Bull. The fiercest daredevils of all enroll in the Red Bull Air Race at venues throughout North America and Europe. To get the sports analogy right, HLW covered the plaza's paving of plastic-wood timbers with sheets of a paper-resin composite used for ramps at skate parks. To allow Red Bull executives to savor a bird's-eye view of their domain, HLW built a mezzanine with a glass-in boardrooms as well as a few offices and workstations.