The first phase of the 25 acre “San Mateo Centre” development included two mid-rise office buildings sharing a large, sunken courtyard. At the center of the courtyard stands a twenty-foot high brightly painted, metal sculpture by artist Julia Lord. The water feature around the sculpture was designed by Callander Associates and consists of a semicircular cantilevered upper pool, which cascades as a single sheet of water into a sixty-foot diameter lower pool. The water serves as a backdrop to the sculpture and a buffer to the noise of the nearby freeway traffic.