In 1984, the P/A Awards jury's discussion of the California DataMart focused on its plan: Designed by Tanner & VanDine Architects (now Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects), the four-story building filled its irregular site with a central atrium that juror O.M. Ungers called a "poche room" in what James Polshek, FAIA, described as "a very bizarrely shaped block." The jury hardly mentioned the building's then-innovative function as a wholesale showroom for microcomputers; in the mid-1980s, San Francisco represented the epicenter of the digital revolution.
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