Headquarters
One AMD Place
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One AMD Place
P.O. Box 3453
Sunnyvale, California 94088-3453
(408) 749-4000
TWX:910-339-9280
TELEX:34-6306
Take Highway 101, exit at Lawrence Expressway South, turn right at Duane
Avenue. Go straight into the AMD facility.
One AMD Place is the name and location of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.'s
sales, marketing and administration building in Sunnyvale, California. The
building is home to approximately 700 employees, including executive staff,
sales, marketing, finance, legal, human resources, quality, information
systems, communications, and environmental health and safety departments.
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One AMD Place was built on the shell of a former AT&T facility originally constructed in 1979, and the challenge was to "recycle" the old building into an advanced work environment. To meet that goal, AMD opened up the flat, concrete structure, adding a rotunda, a skylight down the building's central spine, nearly floor-length windows around the entire perimeter of the building, and a clerestory roof with motorized window shades. The new open structure, coupled with indirect lighting fixtures throughout the building, reduces glare and creates a more pleasant work environment.
The building features individual work cubicles "customized" to each employee; spacious hardwall offices for executives; and centralized conference rooms, coffee break areas and photocopying hubs. Building staff provide scheduling coordination and catering assistance for the central meeting rooms.
Each meeting room has conference-calling capabilities and multi-media presentation equipment that varies according to the size of the room. Video conferencing facilities are also available.
One AMD Place meets all ADA requirements for handicapped accessibility and is fully equipped with safety features, including sound and strobe light fire alarms, fire extinguishers and hoses, emergency phones and cameras in the parking lot, a central paging system, safety glass, expansion joints between building sections, and cross-bracing with seismic reinforcement.
AMD's planners paid careful attention to the work environment inside the building and created a bright, modern facility. Work areas and walkways have wall-to-wall carpeting with contrasting borders and design insets, and restrooms feature granite and marble countertops.
Original artwork and limited edition prints created by local artists accent the building. Each watercolor painting, multi-media creation, pen-and-ink drawing, photograph or chalk rendering is individually selected for a specific location in the building.
A collection of 39 original oil paintings by Theodore Wores on loan from the Triton Museum is on display on both levels of the central walkway.
Construction of the new building began with partial demolition of the old structure in November 1992. During construction of One AMD Place, many materials were reclaimed from the old building and recycled, including carpet tiles, concrete panels, metal studs, fluorescent light tubes, ballasts and rebar. Employees began moving into the new facility in February 1994.
A commons building containing an employee cafeteria, meeting rooms, exercise rooms, showers and an auditorium is adjacent to the administration building.
Building Facts and Figures
* Architecture: HOK Architects.
* Construction: DPR Construction.
* Total area of building: 318,000 square feet; usable space: 307,000 square feet.
* Building capacity: 1,200 employees.
* Two story building with two wings connected by a center "spine" and rotunda.
* Each wing larger than a football field.
* Rotunda is 60 feet in diameter and two stories high.
* 15 acres of grass.* 200 hardwall offices.
* 38 conference rooms.
* 16 one-on-one rooms.
* Four classrooms.
* Two computer labs.
* 16 telephone rooms.
* Eight central coffee break areas.
* Eight central photocopying rooms.
* Two passenger elevators and one freight elevator.
* 10 stairways.
* Four central fan systems.
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