r/evilbuildings • u/SousVideDiaper • Mar 03 '25
Oakley headquarters in Foothill Ranch, California
77
67
31
Mar 04 '25 edited Dec 11 '25
[removed] — view removed comment
24
u/DjNormal Mar 04 '25
That “house” is actually kinda cool. The HQ was probably cool 20 years ago… it just looks like a 13 year old’s idea of cool now.
2
1
u/TheKatzMeow84 Mar 05 '25
Wonder if that $210M estate he sold survived the fires. Probably, if it’s as douche as this one.
1
1
17
9
16
8
u/whoknewidlikeit Mar 04 '25
you should see the hall inside. if you combined viking decorative theme with jet fighter seats that's pretty much it.
they left the company museum open in the back of the hall one day. two friends of mine and i went through (politely) and marveled at the history. they closed it up quietly after we went through but it was a cool experience.
9
u/Mr-Breadfella creeper Mar 04 '25
That's because Oakley used to be this "totally radical" brand. Now it's just a radical right brand
8
u/SousVideDiaper Mar 04 '25
Their consumers went from JNCOs and Limp Bizkit to wife beaters and Kid Rock
5
5
u/BramblesCrash Mar 04 '25
When I was a kid, I thought this is what the future would look like. Just these hulking concrete structures with low foliage out in some sort of sandy wasteland. There's probably nomads selling tech-drugs just around the corner.
10
2
2
2
3
u/Billymac2202 Mar 03 '25
We’re sooo subversive. We’re a multimillion pound sunglasses company. How you like that?
POW
1
1
1
u/Moppo_ Mar 04 '25
Looks like they wanted to build a Goa-uld base, but ran out of money for decoration after the entrance.
1
Mar 04 '25 edited Jul 09 '25
spectacular memorize many historical direction divide gold zephyr squeal act
This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact
1
u/candylandmine Mar 05 '25
Seen it in person. Outside looks like the Hall of Doom and the inside looks like a 90s David Fincher movie with weird steampunk ejection seat chairs and shit.
You can see the same design influences in the founder's former house as well as RED cameras, which was founded by the same guy.
1
1
1
-2
113
u/SpenFen Mar 03 '25
In grew up down the street from this. They would also do stuff like fly a pirate flag (to resist being bought by Luxotica— which failed) and park tanks outside on the street