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Interiors
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An overview
of some of the region’s current or recently completed commercial
interior design projects.
Whether it’s
brand new offices or renovations, the region’s interior designers
and architects are creating workspaces that are both aesthetically
pleasing and functional. St. Louis Commerce Magazine asked RCGA
members to submit one project they recently completed or that is
on the drawing board. These projects are pictured along with a description
of some of the finer details.
Note: Only RCGA
members are listed in the subcontractors category.
IKON Office Solutions
Location: Black’s Ridge Office Building, Chesterfield,
Mo. 63017
Interior Designer/Architect: TRi Architekts
Furniture Dealer & Local Representative: Color Art
Size: 48,500 square feet
Completion Date: October 2000
Description: This regional headquarters facility for IKON
Office Solutions consists of 48,500 square feet on four floors and
contains the corporate offices, sales offices and regional telemarketing
and reproduction/graphics centers. IKON is a leading provider of
office machines for the reproduction of graphic and text materials.
TRi created an interior décor that features primary colors
using bold geometric designs. Additionally, there are training facilities
to support the technical staff and demonstration/display centers
that feature the latest office products.
Contractors: Knoll
Incyte Genomics, Inc. Administration Building
Location: 4678 World Parkway, St. Louis, Mo. 63044
Interior Designer/Architect: Christner Inc.
Furniture Dealer & Local Representative: Paige Solomon,
Color Art
Size: 20,000 square feet
Completion Date: August 1, 2000
Description: Incyte Genomics, Inc. is an innovative and expanding
star of the biotech industry. New administrative offices reinforce
that image to both clients and employees with a dramatic fit-out
of tenant space featuring curved walls, deep color tones complemented
by dark charcoal, and a spare, industrial quality to construction
materials and applications. The reception area and conference suite
leads through a secure entrance to the main office area, with systems
furniture providing workstations, and private offices along one
perimeter wall. A lunchroom housed in a large curved barrel shape
with irregular “windows” provides the dominant internal
design feature.
Specialty Materials & Contractors: Tarlton, Stephens
Floor Covering, Kaemmerlen Electric, C&R Mechanical Co.
Maring, Kanefield, Wiessman Advertising Offices
Location: 12 Maryland Plaza, St. Louis, Mo. 63108
Interior Designer/Architect: Forum Studio, Inc.
Furniture Dealer & Local Representative: Color Art
Size: 8,000 square feet
Completion Date: October 2000
Description: The Maring Kanefield Wiessman offices project
and image of creativity and innovation. Unconventional materials
are used to achieve a dramatic yet cost effective space. The layout
rings the studio space around a cluster of ancillary support rooms
in the inner core. The core carefully organizes the rooms into a
playful composition of angled walls, ceilings, unusual materials
and vivid color. Serving as a neutral backdrop, the perimeter studio
space is finished in soft muted tones. The main conference room
is enveloped in a curving translucent wall constructed of overlapping
fiberglass panels creates a mysterious and exciting approach to
the room.
Specialty Materials & Contractors: Medium Density Fiberboard
was used for all custom furniture. Perforated Metal - Duct enclosures
and overhead canopies, OSB (Strandboard), Galvanized Metal - exposed
spiral ductwork, Translucent fiberglass panels for conference room
wall, Interface Carpet Tile - flooring. St. Louis Woodworks, ICON
Contracting, LightoLier, Ardee, Flos.
Murphy Company Corporate Offices
Location: 1233 North Price Road, St. Louis, Mo. 63132
Interior Designer/Architect: Holleran Duitsman Architects,
Inc.
Size: 60,000 square feet
Completion Date: April 2000
Description: Holleran Duitsman Architects designed new corporate
headquarters for Murphy Company, a mechanical engineering firm,
to meet the company’s goals of a functional, efficient and
professional work environment. The space consolidated three locations
into a single 60,000-square-foot facility. The lobby features decorative
stainless steel columns and a barrel-vaulted ceiling created by
Murphy Company’s own craftsmen. An atrium in the lobby opens
to a dramatic full skylight. In addition to enclosed offices, the
architects designed open work areas and incorporated modular furniture.
Soft indirect lighting reduces computer screen glare and white noise
decreases background noise.
People Support
Location: 555 Washington, St. Louis City
Interior Designer/Architect: Stinson Schroeder Design
Group, Inc.
Size: 29,000 square feet
Completion Date: Spring 2000
Description: This project for People Support, a dot-com company,
is an interesting mix of today’s high-tech work environment
adapted into a turn-of-the-century building. The project includes
private offices, conference and training rooms as well as an open
office plan designed to handle a 24 x 7 working environment.
Professional Office Environment Showroom Redesign
Location: 1 Metropolitan Square, St. Louis City
Interior Designer: Jennifer Jacobs & Kris McKenzie
Furniture Dealer & Local Representative: Poe, Larry Born
Size: 3,000 square feet
Completion Date: May 2000
Description: Professional Office Environments, a Haworth
dealership, increased their staff 50 percent within two years, quickly
outgrowing their existing floor plan. When evaluating their 8,000
square feet, the design department’s major challenge was to
minimize workstation sizes and maximize usable workspace. Old drafting
tables were obsolete and using valuable real estate. Using computers
for drafting, the tables became storage space. Two solutions were
found. The first, install pivot tables that nest underneath work
surfaces. Additional work surface is available when needed, but
floor space is not wasted. The second addition was mobile easels.
Great for brainstorming ideas, privacy and storing project drawings.
ProWolfe Partners
Location: 123 Olivette Executive Parkway, Suite 100, 63141
Interior Designer: Linda Dulle
Architect: Henderson Group
Furniture Dealer & Local Representative: Interiors Unlimited,
Gary Revling
Size: 25 offices (7 private, 18 workstations)
Completion Date: July 2000
Description: Being a high-end image marketing company, ProWolfe
Partners wanted to create an environment that would stimulate their
employees. They also realized that a truly exciting space would
help them compete in the recruitment of new employees. Linda Dulle
(Project Designer) recommended Interiors Unlimited and the Teknion
products to fulfill those requirements. Linda found these products
are not only attractive, but are extremely functional and flexible
to continue to meet ProWolfe’s future needs. In fact, since
the initial installation they have reconfigured their offices to
accommodate their growth.
The PrivateBank - St. Louis Headquarters
Location: 1401 S. Brentwood Blvd., 2nd Floor, St. Louis,
Mo. 63144
Interior Designer/Architect: Arcturis
Furniture Dealer & Local Representative: Corporate Interiors,
Claire Erker
Size: 13,000 square feet
Completion Date: June 2000
Description: The design challenge for the premier of a new
concept in banking that concentrates on affluent customers and privately
held businesses, was to create an atmosphere of a “sleek banking
boutique.” From the elevator lobby, the dramatic reception
area reflects a concierge atmosphere. Designed with bold yet elegant
lines, the entrance immediately welcomes the customer. Reflecting
the bank’s high-level technology image, a video wall with up-to-the-minute
stock quotes and an Internet banking station also greet the customer.
Just beyond the reception desk is an interactive hospitality area
stocked with beverages.
The integration of unique materials and forms blend to the visual
and spatial elements that open up the floor plan. From the non-conventional,
sit-down teller line to the 108-square-foot private banking stations,
the space was developed to accommodate every sort of environment
for each business situation.
RGA Corporate Headquarters
Location: 1370 Timberlake Manor Parkway, Chesterfield, Mo.
63017 Interior Designer/Architect: Fox Architects Furniture
Dealer & Local Representative: Color Art Size: 117,000 square
feet Completion Date: February 2000 Description: The client’s
business began as a small and nimble organization of six people,
but has experienced dramatic change and has grown to 100 times its
original size. Rejuvenating the founder’s entrepreneurial spirit
is essential to the company’s operational mobility. In designing
a new corporate headquarters, Fox Architects created an environment
that fosters collaboration and interaction between employees. Traditional
office building circulation patterns and planning principals were
challenged. The headquarters features multi-function spaces that
enable work to happen anywhere, anytime. A distinction between personal
work areas and community areas was made through the use of bold
and playful color and tactile materials.
Specialty Materials & Contractors: Paric Corp., Murphy Company,
Guarantee Electric, Flooring Systems, William Tao & Associates
Saint Louis University Business School
Location: 3674 Lindell Boulevard, St. Louis, Mo. 63108
Interior Designer: Meredith E. Liescheidt, Lawrence Group
Furniture Dealer & Local Representative: Herman Miller
Workplace Resource, Michael Sigmund
Size: 18,554 square feet
Completion Date: September 2000
Description: The environment was developed to be functional
and appealing to the setting of a newly renovated building.
US Transcom Network Operations Center (N.O.C.)
Location: Scott Air Force Base, Ill.
Interior Designer/Architect: Oculus Inc.
Furniture Dealer & Local Representative: Color Art /
Steelcase, Gail Hasenmueller
Size: 2,000 square feet
Completion Date: December 2000
Description: Oculus Inc. was retained to provide architecture,
interior design and planning, equipment integration, furniture and
furnishings. The US Transcom NOC is a high-tech networking and video-teleconferencing
facility designed for the United States Air Force.
Ursa's Cafe
Location: Washington University, St. Louis, Mo.
Interior Designer/Architect: Mackey Mitchell Associates
Furniture Dealer & Local Representative: Lounge Furniture-Loewenstein,
Lisa Belue; Game Tables-Northwood; Custom Table Tops-Home on the
Range; Game Boards-Design Works; Café Stools-Bill McGhie
& Associates
Size: 7,250 square feet
Completion Date: October 2000
Description: Named after Washington University’s bear
mascot, with reference to the heavenly bears Ursa Major and Ursa
Minor, Ursa’s Café is designed around a games theme.
Tucked within the new residential complex at Washington University,
also designed by Mackey Mitchell Associates, Ursa’s is described
by students as “tight” and “awesome.” The café
vibrates with color and kinetic forms. Ursa’s boasts a small,
lighted stage area, food service area, an ultra-colorful cyber-café
and a more subdued student lounge with a limestone and slate hearth.
Mackey Mitchell and Ten 8 Group found this project to be a model
of collaboration.
Specialty Materials & Contractors: Belson & Associates
XTRA International Corporate Headquarters
Location: West St. Louis County near Westport Plaza
Interior Designer: The Lawrence Group Colors, Sharon Henderson
Furniture Dealer & Local Representative: Color Art
Size: 47,000 square feet
Completion Date: August 2000
Description: The Lawrence Group Colors completely redesigned
the headquarters of XTRA International, a leader in the over-the-road
trailer industry, to reinforce their true corporate culture. The
firm dissected an actual tractor-trailer and subtly blended the
pieces into a sophisticated corporate design. The main lobby’s
one inch strip flooring was created from trailer bed wood. The elevator
ceiling incorporates translucent fiberglass windowpanes from trailer
skylights. Authentic trailer landing gear legs support glass boardroom
tabletops. The heavy-duty, full-height stainless steel Lunch/ Training
Room doors open just like trailer doors. The room also features
garages with metal retractable doors that simulate docking bays.
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