Amdocs, Inc. New Headquarters
Location: 1390 Timberlake Manor Parkway
Interior Designer/Architect: Gray Design Group, Inc.
Furniture Dealer: Gray Design Group, Inc., Color Art
Size: 100,000 square feet
Completion date: July 1999
Description: Amdocs wanted to create an environment that would help them hire and retain high-caliber employees. They also needed to maximize flexibility and get more usage from their square footage. The creation and execution of interior master planning concepts provided the desired flexibility, while an innovative use of color schemes and floor covering provided the creative spark.
Specialty Materials & Contractors: EDM - Mike Lenhoff
Interior Design of Arch Air Medical Services’ new headquarters
Location: 18500 Edison Avenue, Chesterfield, MO
Interior Designer: G.M. Doveikis
Architect: Uhlig, Inc.
Furniture Dealer: G.M. Doveikis
Size: 58,219 square feet
Completion date: July 1999
Description: This interior features Bently carpeting specified in colors to match the company’s logo colors of navy and burgundy.
The boardroom features custom-built wall units and a custom-built table with concealed outlets for laptop computers.
Specialty Materials & Contractors: Granite, marble, custom woodworking, custom carpet. Murray Builders, Creative Lighting Strategies, The Sound Room, Randy Lauger, Carolyn Hirth
Miscellaneous: ARCH is the premier provider of comprehensive emergency medical transport services. They serve patients throughout the metropolitan St. Louis and surrounding areas. The firm maintains its own fleet of helicopters, twin engine jets, and turbo prop airplanes along with the personnel to handle all medical transport service needs. Its new headquarters is home to administrative and executive staff, as well as physicians and pilots who are “on-call.”
AT&T Broadband
Location: 5340 Oakland, St. Louis, MO
Interior Designer/ Architect: Marguerite Chieppa
Furniture Dealer: Herman Miller, Workplace Resource
Size: 60 workstations
Completion date: September 1999
Description: The project consisted of creating an ergonomic, acoustical-pleasing and attractive environment for a Call Center for TCI/ATT Broadband. The new interior was created in order to increase employee comfort and productivity, while helping to reduce turnover.
D’Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles
Location: One Memorial Drive, St. Louis, MO
Interior Designer/ Architect: Suttle Mindlin
Furniture Dealer: Centro
Size: 40,000 square feet
Description: This project included an interior renovation and repositioning of an advertising agency. The primary objective was to create a completely new image for the company — the mandate was to design a setting that conveyed a creative “edgy” look reflecting the way the client truly works and positioning them as the top creative agency.
Specialty Materials & Contractors: Corrugates plastic, metal and mohair, multiple mixed carpets, switched from overhead lighting to accent lighting
Miscellaneous: Suttle Mindlin won the 1999 AIA/CPC Merit Award for Interiors for the renovation of D’Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles.
Dierbergs Corporate Offices New Corporate Headquarters
Location: 16690 Swingley Ridge Road, Chesterfield, MO
Interior Designer/Architect: TRI Architekts
Furniture Dealer: Workplace Resource
Size: 45,000 square feet
Completion date: August 1999
Description: This project is the new corporate headquarters for Dierbergs, a family-owned retail grocer. The client requested clean contemporary design to reinforce the corporation’s value-conscious philosophy. The offices occupy the top two floors of the new Dierbergs’ Plaza in Chesterfield along Highway 40.
Specialty Materials & Contractors: Dood Panelling, Schuetz Cabinet, Inc. Jofoo, Masland, Designtex
Emerson Motor Company Headquarters Redesign
Location: 8100 West Florissant Avenue, St. Louis, MO
Interior Designer/Architect: Fox Architects
Furniture Dealer: Smed International, Clark Peeper, Color Art
Size: 100,000 square feet
Completion date: December 2000
Description: This adaptive reuse of an obsolete factory facility resulted in a dynamic headquarters for Emerson Motors. The existing unique structural elements and ceiling heights of the factory were preserved reinforcing the connection to Emerson Motor’s history of manufacturing. Access to daylight is essential in creating a high-quality work environment. This design provides lots of light and easily identifiable “landmarks” throughout the large complex completing the focus on “people first” design.
Specialty Materials & Contractors: Musick Corporation, Jarrell, Guarantee Electric, Fire Assurance, West Park Painting, Stephens Floor, Williams Tile, Crescent Planning Mill, Architectural Sign Contracting, Obata Design, McElwain Fine Arts
Express Scripts, Inc. New Headquarters
Location: 13900 Riverport Drive, Maryland Heights, MO
Interior Designer/Architect: Christner, Inc.
Furniture Dealers: Professional Office Environments, Haworth Dealer, Workstations, Herman Miller/Workplace Resource, Ancillary Furniture
Size: 147,000 square feet
Completion date: July 1999
Description: The 46,000-square-foot floor plates of the new Express Scripts headquarters building are organized around a central atrium and a sculptural stairway, which establishes a visual point of orientation and convenient circulation. As the focal point of the building, the atrium includes a serpentine wood paneled wall, which introduces a sculptural element and provides a warm counterpoint to the steel, glass and terrazzo materials that surround it.
The reception desks, LED screen and specialty furniture were designed by the architect and custom fabricated. These elements create dynamic forms that announce the distinctive quality of the office environment. Combining wood and perforated metal screens, the sculptural furniture provides a unique, yet functional expression. The vertical surfaces are plain-sliced red oak. Horizontal surfaces are a combination of laminate and cherry-stained oak. The perforated metal screens, selected for their transparent quality, are attached with rods and fittings designed to reveal the engineered connections.
Adjoining the main reception area is a state-of-the-art corporate conference center offering a variety of meeting venues for groups of varying sizes.
Specialty Materials & Contractors: Maharam, Missouri Terrazzo, Architectural Woodwork, Interface
Forest Park Community College - Hospitality Tourism & Training Facility
Location: St. Louis, MO
Architect: Fleming Corporation
Size: 30,000 square feet
Completion date: November 1999
Description: This new two-story, 30,000-square-foot center houses culinary arts labs, demonstration rooms, computer classrooms, seminar conference rooms, a 2,200-square-foot formal dining room, a full-service kitchen, a baking/pastry lab, supply and storage areas, locker rooms and administrative offices.
The character of the facility is designed to blend in with the historically significant red brick campus designed in 1967 by Harry Wesse. The new school also features a 5,000-square-foot open, tree-lined courtyard. The courtyard is surrounded on three sides by classrooms and dining facilities, the fourth side adjoins the interior atrium cafeteria of the existing student center.
Specialty Materials & Contractors: Tiered seating in demonstration classrooms were equipped with computer connections for each student.
Information Builders, Inc. Offices
Location: 16401 Swingley Ridge Road, Suite 200, St. Louis, MO
Interior Designer/Architect: Cannon
Furniture Dealer: Cort Furniture
Size: 11,500 square feet
Completion date: December 1998
Description: Expansion and relocation of the Information Builders, Inc. branch office.
Miscellaneous: Cannon used this office to help develop the IBI Standards for the following branch offices: Atlanta, GA; Orlando, FL; Cleveland, OH; Chicago, IL; and Boston, MA.
Mackey Mitchell Associates Office Renovation
Location: The Power House/800 St. Louis Union Station
Interior Designer: Tom Peterson and Angela Feddersen-Heinze
Architect: Mackey Mitchell Associates
Size: 14,000 square feet
Completion date: October 1999
Description: Mackey Mitchell Associates recently completed a major office renovation to create a more open atmosphere, fostering the company’s team approach to design projects. The facelift involved reconfiguring work and support spaces, lowering wall partitions, adding color, and providing spacious areas for team meetings. The new arrangement offers everyone in the 40-person firm views of the outside.
Specialty Materials & Contractors: ISC Contracting, Shaw Stratton
Maryville Technologies Expansion & Renovation
Location: 540 Maryville Center, Suite 300, St. Louis, MO
Interior Designer/Architect: Stinson Schroeder Design Group, Inc.
Furniture Dealer: Corporate Interiors
Size: 11,200 square feet
Completion date: September 1999
Description: This new environment features a predominantly blue and silver square-patterned design to complement the firm’s new corporate identity campaign. The interior design better reflects Maryville’s contemporary approach to delivering information technology solutions. The square patterns used throughout the interior design on wallpaper, carpet and tile symbolize the complex infrastructure work that Maryville provides to clients.
Specialty Materials & Contractors: Duke-Weeks Construction, St. Louis Woodwork, Flooring Systems, Guarantee Electric, Simon Painting, Architectural Stone, Jarrell Contracting
Momentum Expansion
Location: 6665 Delmar Blvd., University City, MO
Interior Designer: The Lawrence Group Colors
Architect: The Lawrence Group Architects
Furniture Dealer: Workplace Resource
Size: 10,000 square feet
Completion date: April 2000
Description: This proposed expansion of Momentum’s corporate office gives this growing company (formerly Louis London) the additional room it needs. The design concept creates an energetic environment that reflects the creativity and synergy within the company.
The layout of the space was designed to complement the company’s name, Momentum. Angled and stair-stepped private offices and workstations, as well as changes in the height of workstations create the feeling of movement in the creative department.
The corporate identity will also be reflected through the design of key areas to display artwork generated within the office space in an interesting manner.
The design incorporates the maximum amount of natural light, while maintaining control of the total amount of light in the space for computer work. This is achieved with the use of open offices adjacent to the exterior windows, and the addition of window walls on the front walls of the private offices. Solar shades and drapes at windows and gels on the windows also help achieve the optimum balance.
NCR Building Renovation for Southwestern Enterprises
Location: 9811 South Forty Drive, Ladue, MO
Interior Designer: Color Art Interior
Architect: Rataj-Krueger Architects, Inc.
Size: 39,500 square feet
Completion date: January 1999
Description: Project included the design and construction of a period style building with exterior planters, shutters and ADA compliance. It features a domed ceiling, marble floors, special lighting treatment and glass entry doors. The project also included interior corporate office renovation, an exercise area, board room and office build-out.
Specialty Materials & Contractors: Hensley Construction, Stephens Flooring
Miscellaneous: Design completed for Phase II Building NCR II - New two-story office building.
Office of Trivers Associates
Location: Bank of America Tower, 100 N. Broadway, Suite 1800, St. Louis, MO
Interior Designer/Architect: Trivers Associates
Size: 12,000 square feet
Completion date: 1994
Description: This office was designed around two concepts: a work environment with an abundance of natural light and an office where art is integral to the space. The main conference room has 8-foot floor-to-ceiling windows providing a panoramic view of the Arch, Old Courthouse and Busch Stadium. The custom-designed curved maple conference room table promotes a non-hierarchical feel in meetings. The lobby and entry area is designed to exude a warm, invitation to clients & visitors. It includes a two-toned maple floor and a custom maple, mahogany and steel reception desk. Two specially commissioned pieces of art grace the lobby. A mixed media piece “River” by local artist Joan Hall and a table by designer Carol Fleming. The design studio features low partitions that allow daylight to penetrate every workstation. The final result is a workplace where creativity is evident in every aspect of the environment.
Offices of Answers, Inc. Renovation
Location: 450 Weidman Road
Interior Designer/ Architect: Answers, Inc.
Size: 5,000 square feet
Completion date: December 1999
Description: This is a total renovation of a former Junior Achievement building. The concrete block shell had been unoccupied for two years prior to renovation. Mechanical systems were virtually non-existent.
Since there were no windows in the original design, the roof was raised five feet and repositioned on wooden trusses to provide two parallel rows of perimeter windows. Ambient light from the new windows now floods the large central work area offering the best possible light for computer use.
Varying heights of cubical walls, displaying cloth and wood-paneled surfaces, establish individual workstations within the open studio area.
Specialty Materials & Contractors: Lightolier, ALS Lighting, RBF, Interface Carpet, Knolls Farbics, CKC Millwork, Holst Cabinetry
Peabody Corporate Office
Location: 701 Market Street, Suite 900, St. Louis, MO
Interior Designer/Architect: Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum
Furniture Dealer: Workplace Resources
Size: 70,000 square feet
Completion date: March 1999
Description: The Peabody Group expanded its headquarters offices by leasing an additional 1-1/4 floor, creating a total of four contiguous floors. One of the most dramatic changes was to add accessibility throughout the office by connecting the existing floors and the expansion floors with a steel stairway located in the center of the floor plan. The existing floors of space were redesigned to accommodate the plans for the newer area. Block and stack diagrams were used along with the organizational chart to create a floor plan that would better facilitate different groups working together.
The most extensive changes were done to the 30,000-square-foot ninth floor. A sense of openness was created via a new floor plan and the introduction of more natural light. With the new layout, all major corridors now receive natural light from the perimeter windows.
The boardroom is in the open and features a large glass wall enabling visibility into the room. It also functions as a staff meeting room.
Specialty Materials & Contractors: Durkan, Designtex, Guarantee Interiors
Paylinx Corporate Headquarters
Location: 9666 Olive Boulevard, St. Louis, MO
Interior Designer/Architect: Arcturis
Furniture Dealer: Custom designed by Arcturis
Size: 22,500 square feet
Completion date: May 1999
Description: The design challenge for this corporate headquarters was to take into consideration the company’s present position within the industry, as well as its future growth potential.
The lobby and reception area reflects the firm’s high-technology image. Divided by a salt-water reef, the reception area blends into the “café” — a casual meeting place, which sets the tone for the flexible floor plan system linking the staff work areas.
The new work environment allows employees to tailor their work settings to their individual work styles. Various types of workspaces and totally portable custom-designed furniture maximize the company’s ability to respond to change.
Specialty Materials & Contractors: Interface Carpeting, ISC Contracting
Rehab Group, Finance Department
Location: Pierre Laclede Center, 7733 Forsyth Blvd., St. Louis, MO
Interior Designer/Architect: OWH Architects
Size: 8,000 square feet
Completion date: July 1998
Description: Ottolino Winters Huebner (OWH) designed this 8,000-square-foot interior office expansion for Rehab Care Group in the Pierre Laclede Center to accommodate the company’s growing finance department. To capitalize on natural lighting, the open office workstations were located next to the exterior glass perimeter. Private offices were located in the interior space. French doors on each interior office add to the feeling of openness, and bring natural light into the private office spaces. OWH selected furnishings for the entire area, including updated furniture systems for the open office workstations.
Riverchase Recreation Center
Client: City of Fenton
Location: 990 Horan Drive, Fenton, MO
Interior Designer/Architect: Sverdrup CRSS, A Division of Jacobs Facilities, Inc.
Furniture Dealer: Corporate Interiors, Workplace Resource
Size: 68,000 square feet
Completion date: June 1999
Description: This two-story facility is open and airy, featuring indoor and outdoor pools; a fitness and weight center; multipurpose rooms; child care rooms; a seniors activity room; dance/aerobic studios; locker rooms; a concession area and a walking/jogging track. All rooms surround a two-court gymnasium. “Family Room” areas grace the corridors on both levels allowing visitors to feel at home in between activities. The bold colors of the upholstered furnishings add contrast to the white interior walls. The curvilinear pattern in the floor tile, and a spiral stairwell add to the overall effect.
Specialty Materials & Contractors: Interface, Wesnic, Lowenstein, August & Knoll
Security Command & Control Room
Location: Scott Air Force Base
Interior Designer/Architect: Oculus, Inc.
Furniture Dealer: TBD
Size: 950 square feet
Completion date: April 2000
Description: This is a high-tech interactive briefing room. The room will be used to track and communicate the security status at Air Force installations around the world.
Specialty Materials & Contractors: Custom Millwork, Streachwall, DeCoustics ceiling System
Miscellaneous: Specialized video and presentation systems being provided by Presentation Systems/VMI.
Rock Hill Public Library New Facility
Location: 9620 Manchester Road, St. Louis, MO
Interior Designer/ Architect: Langton Associates
Furniture Dealer: Not Selected
Size: 5,200 square feet
Completion date: January 2001
Description: This new library facility features a large open area. Masonry walls and a custom wood-truss support structure complements the low open shelving designed for easy accessibility. A glass wall faces toward the courtyard.
Specialty Materials & Contractors: Final materials still being selected. Carpet floors, fluorescent lighting.
Miscellaneous: Part of overall Municipal Complex Master Plan.
Southwest Bank
Location: 13205 Manchester, Des Peres, MO
Interior Designer/Architect: Chiodini
Furniture Dealer: Corporate Interiors
Completion date: December 1999
Description: The designers collaborated with Corporate Interiors & Knoll to create a furniture solution to meet the bank’s functional & aesthetic requirements for the lobby floor as well as unusual data & cabling needs for the operations area.
Specialty Materials & Contractors: Knoll’s, Currents Wall Systems, McAllister/Vollmar, Inc.
Conference Technologies, Inc.
“The Board Room”
Location: 11804 Borman Drive, St. Louis, MO
Interior Designer: Axis Design Group
Furniture Dealer: Corporate Interiors, Inc.
Size: 500 square feet
Completion date: 1998
Description: This is a multi-functional space. It is used as a briefing/presentation/ demo/video conferencing room and it is available for rent. CTI is a full-service integrated video conferencing design/ build firm.
Specialty Materials & Contractors: Lees Carpet, Carnegie Fabric, Hon “Remington” Executive Seating, SFB Inc.
St. Anthony’s Medical Center Lobby Renovation
Location: 10010 Kennerly Road, South St. Louis
Interior Designer: J.R. Design Group
Architect: The Lawrence Group Architects, Inc.
Furniture Dealer: David Edward
Size: 6,000 square feet
Completion date: Spring 1999
Description: Primary components of the lobby renovation involved a complete rehabilitation and expansion to a 6,000-square-foot space. Relocating the gift shop, flower shop and information desk to an adjoining annex was also part of the renovation.
Lobby finishes include a floor of muted rose and soft gray-colored granite, multiple columns wrapped in cherry wood and mahogany and a soft, curved wall decorated with curved-frames encasing the medical center’s mission statement and service creed. Backlit stained glass artwork directs patrons to a chapel.
Specialty Materials & Contractors: Marble and Granite Resources, Elrod Fabricators, Guarantee Electrical Co, Inc.
Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis Renovation
Location: 3701 Grandel Square, St. Louis, MO
Interior Designer: Jeffery B. Clark
Architect: David Mason & Associates
Size: 12,000 square feet
Completion date: June 1999
Description: Interior renovation involved a redesigned floor plan, a complete systems update and new bathroom facilities. The building envelope was also addressed with the addition of new doors and windows. Waterproofing and finished painting were also provided.
Specialty Materials & Contractors: Metropolitan Design & Building
Unity Health Corporate Headquarters
Location: 12409 Powers Court Drive
Interior Designer/Architect: ACI/Boland, Inc.
Furniture Dealer: Color Art
Size: 208,000 square feet
Completion date: June 1999
Description: The headquarters building consolidates corporate leadership from five different St. Louis locations into one environment. Hierarchy and status were minimized and flexibility maximized by limiting the number of office & cubicle sizes available. The first floor of the five-story building is column free. Conference facilities for 300 people are provided in a variety of settings, including a slope-floor auditorium, and a large lecture hall. There is a 200-seat cafeteria on the first floor. All employees have access to a 4,000 square-foot full-service wellness center also located on the first floor. Outside, a one-mile walking path complements a large detention pond and fountains. The entire structure of the facility is designed to meet immediate occupancy performance criteria established by: FEMA 302, FEMA 273 and 1996 BOCA for 100- and 500-year earthquake events.
Specialty Materials & Contractors: Lees Carpet, Crescent Planning Mill, Tony Prince, Laminary, Nesson Lamps, Bernhardt Chairs, Steelcase, Paul Brayton, Bretford, Momentum, ArcCom, Design Tex, Knoll
Working Spaces new Headquarters - Showroom
Location: 8770 Rose Avenue, St. Louis, MO
Interior Designer: Sparks Design
Furniture Dealer: Working Spaces
Size: 3,800 square feet
Completion date: September 1999
Description: Working Spaces’ slogan, “Details Make a Difference,” is represented throughout their headquarters offices. The building, originally a barren two-story structure, has been dramatically turned into a leading-edge working showroom with state-of-the-art furniture and accessories, integrating wireless technology. Space-planning and design included the relocating of a pre-existing column in the lower level and making use of full-height wall systems. A third-story balcony was added to showcase a line of freestanding furniture, in lieu of a formal conference room, a variety of meeting areas were also added throughout the offices. A “café” with upgraded stainless steel and granite finishes has been strategically positioned in the center of the lower level to encourage creativity, conversation and communication.
Specialty Materials & Contractors: Six flooring materials have been used throughout the building, including various uses of Bently carpeting, to enhance the facility’s architecture. Custom chem metal in the furniture coordinates with the metal-paint finishes, wall sconces and artwork. Wood trim accents the Kimball furniture. R.G. Apel served as the contractor. Susan Sparks of Sparks Design executed the interior and lighting design. Prints Charming Gallery and QDR selected and coordinated the artwork and custom framing.
Miscellaneous: The architecture of “blocks and squares” ties in with Working Spaces’ corporate identity, which uses the look in its logo.
