For clients and employees alike, the impressive presence of a 40-story steel and glass skyscraper helps instill a sense of power, responsibility, prestige, and respect, though it is not simply the building envelope that should offer this. Each floor, office, cubical, desk and ultimately each person can contribute to the overall benefit of the company and it's clients.
Contemporary office design necessities were fused with and embraced by a modern crafts aware aesthetic to create a dynamic 22,000 square foot office environment that is not intimidating but inviting. In concentric rectangular rings surrounding the building core, a mix of traffic and work spaces, transparently divided, help to organize daily work rituals, while curved solid forms play against the orthogonal building grid and accompanying office routines. Within the fixed building section and regular structural grid, several free-plan basic geometric volumes encliven the spatial experience.
An emphasis on natural or diffused light combined with a mostly organic color palate and use of natural wood elements helps recall a natural world not completely lost within an office of machinery.