This building, completed in February, 2007, seeks to create a new public image for the Contreras Construction Company and a new, positive precedent for the Indio Boulevard gateway.  The 1/3 office and 2/3 warehouse proportion of the program orients towards the street face in order to create a “billboard,” or memorable graphic image, for the new Contreras headquarters.  To this end, three elements compose this image: the glass, the blade, and the graphic.  The glass allows light to enter into the reception and meeting areas.  The blade is a hovering overhang that shades these same spaces and defines the entry.  The graphic is stacked, very economic, precision face concrete block that transforms, or pixelates, from a yellow to a black block over the length of the façade.