Collaboration and wellness are key to the design. The building features a 10,000-square-foot fitness and wellness center, a community theater, street-level retail, a cafe and gallery space. A mind-blowing 33 balconies provide each level with outdoor space.

"Telegraph Tower leads the next generation of office buildings for Oakland with its emphasis on expansive open floorplates, some of the highest ceilings of any Bay Area office building and a large proportion of outdoor space," said Michael Covarrubias, chairman and CEO of TMG Partners. "We took every lesson we have learned about what companies want today and designed Telegraph Tower as a workplace environment that is entirely focused on delivering the right employee experience."

Ground-breaking for Telegraph Tower is slated for mid-2020.

"This office building is one of our bigger projects in Oakland, supported by huge trusses and located on the BART line," Strachan Forgan, principal of Solomon Cordwell Buenz, tells GlobeSt.com. "One of the most noteworthy parts of this design is that the lower level parking garage has the same exterior materials as the upper level office space in a shadow box design. But this puzzle parking can easily be removed if the need for parking is lessened in the future."

Puzzle parking systems utilize existing space in the best possible way. The automated parking systems are provided by a number of manufacturers, with Klaus Parking being one of the largest.

With its Parking Automats, one vacant space on the entry level allows for horizontal and vertical shifting of all platforms. At the press of a button, the system automatically moves the platforms into the desired position. An access/exit lane must be available on the middle level to comply with local regulations, GlobeSt.com learns.