Convene

Schuler Shook’s scope included reception, gathering space, lobbies, boardrooms, conference rooms, and a large multi-purpose room called the Forum. 

The lighting design balances daylight with electric sources, combining tranquility with the clean lines of modern architecture. Decorative fixtures, linear ambient lighting, and custom-designed lights were utilized to add variety and moments of surprise throughout the space.

In particular, the design team drew inspiration from ​“Karl the Fog,” San Francisco’s famously named blanket of coastal fog that regularly rolls in from the Pacific and drifts through the city’s hills and streets. Both a defining feature of the local climate and a beloved cultural icon (even with its own social media presence), Karl has come to symbolize the city’s moody, atmospheric beauty. This hometown hero is subtley referenced through a custom ​“squiggle” light fixture and reflective artwork and décor, evoking the shifting, luminous quality of fog as it moves through the urban landscape.

The largest of the meeting spaces, The Forum, includes a lighting system and grid designed by our theatre planners. The system provides adjustable broadcast-quality lights for arrangement flexibility.