Introduction ― 4 Selected Projects ― 8
Branded Environments: Corporate Interiors
Tell us your stories and we’ll help bring them to life.
Storytelling and place-making are powerful tools. We utilize them to create a branded environment that sets your organization apart, synthesizing your stories into designs that support your vision.
With your brand as our guide, we spark human connections, creating a sense of belonging and engagement. We help you tell your story and celebrate the contributions of staff and financial supporters through a diverse language of spaces, digital media, graphics, and more.
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The light-filled reception and atrium space offers expansive views and has flexible social spaces.
The design concept embraces the idea of the workplace as a living laboratory—a place to constantly test new products and ideas.
↑ Daylight energizes workspaces and improves the well-being of employees.
Informational displays showcase the rich history of Haworth, taking members and visitors on the company’s journey.
→ Adaptable product showrooms allow the Haworth story to evolve as customer needs change, and new products adapt.
Sunrise, Florida
Client: Confidential
Size: 400,000 square feet (37,161 square meters)
Completion Date: 2017
Sustainability: LEED Gold ® Targeted
The subtle exterior ceramic frit pattern maps the company’s regional connections
Furthering the client’s emphasis on workplace design and health, newly built projects must provide an open, transparent, and intimate connection to the surrounding neighborhood and site.
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
Organic brand patterns and the Florida Room reference the firm’s local focus.
Client: Skender Construction
Size: 39,000 square feet (3,623 square meters)
Completion Date: 2017
Sustainability: LEED CI Gold ® Awards:
INSIDE Office Award Finalist, World Architecture Foundation, 2018
Best of Year Honoree, Interior Design Magazine, 2018
Design Excellence Award, Chicago AIA, 2018
Chicago, Illinois ― WHAT IT IS A vibrant workplace that reflects Skender Construction’s mission to transform the construction industry experience.
The new space tells the story of Skender’s evolution into a leading tech construction company.
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
A Face Wall celebrates the company’s unique personalities—and supports the company’s mission to bring people to the forefront.
Design elements like the Face Wall put the emphasis on the diverse, committed group of people at the heart of the organization.
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Embedded throughout the space are inspiring brand communications that promote a culture of camaraderie, trust, and transparency.
The flexible central hub can be an all-day workspace or a social gathering hub.
Sandy Springs, Georgia
Client: Newell Brands
Size: 98,000 square feet (9,104 square meters)
Completion Date: 2016
Awards:
Excellence Award, AIA Georgia, 2017
People’s Choice Award, Renovation/Restoration
Project, AIA Georgia, 2017
Market Award Winner - Large Corporate, Shaw
Contract Design Awards, 2017
Build Georgia Awards, First Place, Associated General Contractors of Georgia, 2017
Best Large Corporate, IIDA Georgia, Best of the Best Awards, 2017
Outdoor Space, Interior Design Best of Year Award Finalist, 2016
Spaces with an array of furniture configurations allow a diversity of meetings, from formal to spontaneous, that are at the root of innovation.
Chicago, Illinois
Client: Nike
Size: 32,000 square feet (2,972 square meters)
Completion Date: 2012
The design integrates the Nike brand into its iconic Michigan Avenue location. A meaningful quote welcomes customers into the reception area, emphasizing the brand’s core values and principles.
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
We sourced materials that represent Nike’s company values, like recycled athletic court flooring and orange Nike shoelaces, to celebrate the brand and their Chicago location.
Stars from the Chicago flag are wrapped in Nike shoelaces, signaling commitment to the city and its athletes.
Nike brand values become graphics that wrap meeting spaces, the workout room, and team offices.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Client: Be The Match, National Marrow Donor Program
Size: 285,000 square feet (26,477 square meters)
Completion Date: 2015
Awards:
Leading Edge Excellence Award, IFMA Minneapolis, 2016
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
This unique campaign tells authentic stories with a flexible, costeffective approach.
Simple yet effective brand communications are achieved with economy.
A co-working space that shares the company’s personal success stories.
Core values anchor this break area, reminding employees of what’s important in their mission.
Vancouver, British Columbia
Client: CBRE
Size: 22,855 square feet (2,123 square meters)
Completion Date: 2015
Awards:
Award of Merit, Interior Designers Institute, 2016
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The dynamic wood ceiling in the employee café is designed as an inverted map of Vancouver.
Client: Kids II
Size: 8,000 square feet (743 square meters)
Completion Date: 2014
Awards:
Gold Award - Showroom Counter, ASID Georgia, 2017
Design Excellence Award - Commercial Product
Design, ASID Georgia, 2017
Best of The Best Award - Retail, IIDA Georgia, 2016
Amsterdam, The Netherlands ― WHAT
A new headquarters and showroom blend an immersive architectural experience with brand identity and the local culture of Amsterdam.
We drew inspiration from the rich heritage of Dutch design culture. Working closely with Kids II’s own artists and designers, we developed custom graphics and signage consistent with the architectural expression.
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
The design embodies the Kids II personality, emphasizing their commitment to innovation, design quality, and most of all, fun!
The showroom displays the newest Kids II products, which retail under six well-known brand names. Custom vignettes emphasize each brand’s character via distinctive materials, color, and lighting.
A custom bar, which functions as both drink service and informal conference table, echoes the forms of the iconic bridges spanning Amsterdam’s canals.
Chicago, Illinois
Client: Conagra Brands
Size: 170,000 square feet (15,793 square meters)
Completion Date: 2018
Sustainability: LEED Gold ®
Conagra’s connections to its history and to the farm start at the entrance. Throughout the office, walls made of reclaimed wood from Midwestern barns are stenciled with the names of the company’s brands.
― WHAT IT IS A fresh start in a new city for a company redefining its legacy.
Customized signage helps employees and visitors navigate the space with ease.
Since 1935, we’ve believed that design has the power to make the world a better, more beautiful place.
That’s why clients and community members on nearly every continent partner with us to design healthy, happy places in which to live, learn, work, play, and heal. We’re passionate about human-centered design, and how design can impact our lives through sustainability, resilience, well-being, diversity and inclusion, and mobility. And we’re committed to advancing design through research. As a matter of fact, in 2018, Fast Company named us one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies in Architecture. Our team of 2,500 professionals provides worldwide interdisciplinary services in architecture, interior design, branded environments, urban design, landscape architecture, and more, and includes our partners Portland, Nelson\Nygaard, Genesis Planning, and Pierre-Yves Rochon (PYR).
