Pretty impressive air conditioner in Cruzio’s new data center! We’ll soon be hosting servers in the space, which will be also be fitted out with gigantic UPS and generator units, as well as an FM200 fire suppression system.
Tag Archives: Sentinel Building
Finishing the Renovation
Cruzio is in the final stretch of our renovation project and the building is looking fine. It’s on the corner of Cedar and Church Street in downtown Santa Cruz, and we have already started moving in.
The coworking space has huge North-facing windows over it — a beautiful, well-lit space. Many windows are openable, providing pleasant fresh air on nice days.
Cruzio’s New Building Gets Better and Better
Walls have been framed, sheetrocked and taped. Kind of beautiful to look at the unfinished bones of Cruzio’s new office space.
Red staircase
Our designer Krissie Olson chose red stairs for our new office space.
It’s not going to be a typical bland office space…
This report by Peggy
We’ve got walls
Now Cruzio’s new building is more than a skeleton. We’ve got rooms becoming actual rooms, with sheetrock, tape and plaster. It’s exciting to see our floorplan fleshed out and becoming 3-dimensional at last.
We’re impatient to move in, but there’s still another month of work to go.
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In a silvery forest (of building construction)
When the walls in a steel-and-concrete building are framed, it’s silver all around. There aren’t any walls to block the light, so one room shines into another and another. Kind of sad that it has to get filled in.
Bam! Smash! Rippp! Crash! — the Sentinel Building in Demo
The noise, the big saws and bulldozers inside the building, the piles of broken-up walls and floors — that’s what’s going on at the Sentinel Building.
Seeing the Sky Through the Sentinel Building
As demolition continues at the Sentinel Building, we can now see right through it.
Matthew Thompson Amid the Rubble
The task of designing the Sentinel Building renovation went to Matthew Thompson, one of Santa Cruz’s most talented and influential architects.
His approach — preserving the brawny beauty of the mid-century modern building while upgrading its function — won the job for his firm.
Here is Matthew dashing through demolished concrete:
And here he is close up:
Boom! Walls come down at the New Sentinel Building
The demolition is happening fast at the New Sentinel building. That means lots of smashing and crashing. We’re opening up windows and doors to let light into the once-dour printing plant. Today Shane called us over to watch some walls fall down — doorways will replace them.
These are 50-year-old 6″ thick concrete walls full of rebar that have been cut straight through, carefully prepped, and today got pushed over with a tremendous bang!
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