Corporate Interiors Update

Corporate Interiors Update

KIMMERLE GROUP & KIMMERLE NEWMAN Architects

IN THE OVERVIEW

Kimmerle Group and Kimmerle Newman Architects are pleased to present this overview of recent corporate interiors work for your review.

We also value our role as our clients’ advocate, and we strive to make our clients’ needs and interests our own in every undertaking.

We are a New York and New Jersey based practice with a twenty-five year history servicing the needs of corporations based in the tri-state region. Our work for these clients is national in scope and we extend our offerings to include full project management, procurement and facilities management on an as needed basis.

Stylistically, we have been successful in fashioning supportive and refreshing work environments at all budgets and in all aesthetics. From traditional and transitional office environments to the most cutting edge, our work quality is a point of pride to which our long list of satisfied and continuing clients can attest.

Our most successful projects are those in which we engage on a turnkey basis and provide work from inception through post occupancy. Many times we are engaged early in the real estate process with brokers and landlords to help fashion the best terms and conditions in lease documents and work letters. Our attention to detail continues as we design a bestfit layout that addresses many leasing issues, including growth options and even downsize possibilities in each plan offered.

Organizationally, we operate a medium-sized firm that maintains a boutique posture with our clients. Involvement of our principles in each project underlines our attitude towards our work, and in every undertaking our lead professionals have a direct and constant presence. As a firm of 20 members with six licensed and senior architects, our staff’s talent pool includes architecture, space planning, interior design, procurement, bidding and pricing programs, on-site representation, and a long list of allied expertise in urban and regional planning.

Kimmerle’s expertise also extends into design and planning, where the user’s needs are incorporated into office and workstation layouts and configurations, many times utilizing the expertise of our affiliated procurement arm Workspace, Inc.

Our diverse range of work and the expansive scope of our undertakings, from large scale planning, architecture, corporate interiors, and work in the medical industry, means that our staff is invigorated for every assignment and ready to Detailed budgeting is always a component of our work, perform the most complex tasks while providing services that including full-scope reviews of contracted work and purchases are price-conscious and driven towards meeting the client’s to provide a complete projection of the new space in a overall parameters and budget. seamless approach.

Our undertakings range from the largest to the smallest requirements occurring in the tri-state market today. Our attention to detail does not vary given the size of the assignment and our record for the quality and skill that we employ in these undertakings is well established in the industry.

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Aeropostale New Jersey Office Lyndhurst, New Jersey

65,600 sf Completed on April, 2012

Aeropostale’s New Jersey office hosts corporate operations groups on three floors which include store operations, real estate and construction, finance, accounting, HR and IT. The company’s national training center is provided on site in a flexible space that opens to a common café for town hall addresses by leadership. The company’s data center and national POS network are also located on site.

This NJ corporate office was conceived as a manifestation of their core purpose, apparel, combined with a challenge to integrate an open, studio floor plan with corporate finishes for suburban staff.

At the elemental level, fabric and textile underpin client’s engagement with the world. The organization’s purpose and mission center on design and commerce, but the underlying basis is fabric. Textile’s hidden components thread through client’s every social and economic move, and their offices are conceived in architectural materials aligning with a scheme derived from textiles’ component framework.

Woven materials are structured on a perpendicular grid: at a macro level, the warp and weft of constituent threads lace into a strengthened whole material. In concept, textile is laid in perfect ninetydegree relationships, but at a micro level, fabric’s fibers fall into sinewy threads overlapping each other as they course volumetrically. In similar fashion, architectural finishes are conceived on an imagined perpendicular grid that is pulled into weaving’s irregular relationships. The grid’s presence is maintained simultaneously by warp and weft’s line work and by the grid’s voids. At common spaces, the building’s concrete floor was ground and stained to manifest the voids outlined by woven fibers. Contrasting inlays at millwork carry woven lines upward in volume, and the grid eventually strikes ceilings as suspended bent aluminum elements.

An open plan with monochromatic urban studio tones is superimposed on a modern, energizing workplace full of vibrant color.

Viewed from entry points, finish tones on each floor follow a muted, pensive white

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and grey scheme; viewed from their reverse, the same building elements are clad in pure colors to foster a vibrancy of office culture.

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Perimeter access to glass, featuring panoramic Manhattan skyline views, is preserved for common experience at opposing ends of each floor, while ceilings step upwards towards the perimeter, and offices are clad in glass to maximize light exposure to the innermost work areas.

While the combined space spreads over three stacked floors, a sense of connectivity was achieved through new slab cuts that perforate the floor masses and provide vertical opportunity for company mission and history messages.

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central conference rooms, floors four + five | woven grid carries through back-lit walls, drywall reveals, flooring finishes

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stained concrete aligns to woven grid

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common spaces, floors four + five | threading strands at conference rooms, ceiling, floor

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cafe + common areas, floor five | muted finish tones at entry orientation | stacked floors connected by new slab openings

Aeropostale New Jersey Office cafe + common areas, floor four | subtly introduced vibrant tones | open connections to upper floor carry corporate mission statements

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floor five viewed from entry | full light access across office with stepping ceilings over open office | muted studio finish tones

floor five viewed from workspace | ceilings step upward towards perimeter | vibrant tones and open workspace

floor four viewed from workspace | ceilings step upward towards perimeter | vibrant tones and open workspace

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corporate history and motto float through slab openings

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defining the central spaces

Realogy Global Headquarters Madison, New Jersey

bridging common space and work space

realogy corporate common space

270,000 sf Completed on June, 2013

As the world’s largest residential real estate company, Realogy had several key goals when considering their new headquarters.

The new design needed to be instrumental to the company’s goal to transition into the future, incorporating five generations of staff with the latest technology, in forwardthinking work areas and active office environments. The site was to combine an overall corporate identity with the distinctiveness of the individual Realogy consumer brands, all extremely well-known names. And the complex needed to provide a critical message to a worldwide audience, its own staff, and its own national training participants. Each brand had to stand alone, yet be part of a greater whole.

This was the third time this challenge had been made to KNA as we have worked with this company over 12 years.

realogy’s commercial brands

A unique, curved spiral geometric scheme runs throughout the office, with a main street connecting all areas with employee and guest hubs for food, meeting, huddle, event and marketing spaces. This key design element carries a spiraling, playful geometry throughout the headquarters’ numerous cafes, training facilities, fitness facilities, and collaborative spaces as well. Staff previously in offices are now either in interior glass fronted rooms, or in open work/bench environments with stand up stations, full exposure to daylight throughout, and dozens of huddle/meet work areas.

Individual real estate brands are presented in their own unique, showcase spaces inserted as front-end environments for each franchise, presenting their own personalities. This allows all rear office spaces to be continuous and interconnected and flexible.

KNA undertook detailed programming with all seven of the company brands, and full corporate interior design for training centers, fitness center, cafeteria, and multimedia production studios. As part of a fifteen-year ongoing relationship, KNA was integral to the early real estate investigations that identified the company’s optimal site and negotiated the best transaction. KNA additionally helped assemble a key team of partners to represent Realogy’s interests, performed furniture solicitation services, performed all design and finish selections, full construction administration, and LEED certification.

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Realogy Global Headquarters

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