650 Newport Center Drive: PIMCO Headquarters

Newport Beach, California

A travertine-and-glass curtain wall brings maximum daylight into relatively shallow office floor plates, making the most of panoramic views of Newport Harbor.

  • Headquarters & Office
  • Tall Buildings

This 20-story office tower has seventeen typical floors with 35-to-40-foot lease spans. Free of interior columns, the 20,500-square-foot floor plates are suitable for a wide range of workspace arrangements, including both open plan and traditional perimeter office configurations. The building’s twenty-foot facade module and Chicago bay windows create a richly textured pattern of light and shadow, celebrating the warmth and richness of the exterior stone cladding. At the base, a generous arcade wraps the body of the building to provided shading for the main lobby and associated public spaces and engage the ground level of the tower with its landscaped surroundings.

An adjacent parking structure provides parking for 1,500 vehicles on four levels below grade and four above.

Stats

  • Site

    1.8-acre site in Newport Center, a premium shopping and office development

  • Components

    20-story headquarters office building with landscaped plaza and adjacent parking garage

  • Client

    Irvine Company, Irvine, CA

  • PCF Services

    Architecture; exterior envelope; interior design of public spaces

  • Sustainability

    Designed & registered for LEED Silver certification

Project Credits

  • Associate Architect

    LPA, Inc., Irvine CA

  • Structural

    John A. Martin & Associates, Inc., Los Angeles

  • Electrical

    Konsortum1, Santa Ana, CA

  • Images

    Joshua White Photography, PCF Architects