IBM Corporation
1989
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18 months
Corporate Marketing & Training Center
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Solana was planned by a collaborative team of architects, planners, and landscape architects including Legorreta Arquitectos, Mitchell / Giurgola Architects, Leason Pomeroy & Associates, HKS Architects, Barton Myers & Associates, and PWP Landscape Architecture. Additional consults included engineers Carter & Burgess, and Howard Fields & Associates and Harlan Glenn & Associates fountains & water feature planners. This team was responsible for planning the four-phase development of a village-and-recreation center, a marketing center, and an office complex, eventually to contain some 7 million square feet of office space for 10,000 to 20,000 employees.
Driving down the highway ramp and entering the complex becomes a real architectural experience: a passage from the outside, which is the highway, through a vestibule, which is the space between the bridge and the gateways, to the inside, which is the rest of Solana. Here, being in a car does not destroy architectural experience, as it usually does; it heightens it. For this experience has been designed in recognition of a blunt reality that is too often denied: people will receive their first impressions from inside their cars.
Where Latin American architect Ricardo Legoretta’s Village Center and campus style buildings, known as the IBM Southlake, are casual, almost rambling structures reminiscent of a Mexican village, Romaldo Giurgola's Westlake Campus buildings are formal and ordered, if rather too mannered, typical of a western strip city.
The site included office, hotel and retail developments. Neville Lewis Associates, Inc., The PHH Design Group became involved with IBM on several previous projects of smaller scale before joining forces with IBM on this major effort of designing the interior architecture of the Regional Marketing & Training Center known as IBM Southlake. In response to Legorreta’s “enclosed wall” concept and colorful obelisk, a polished, avante garde interior design became the silence behind the walls that speaks out as the Mexican concept of ideal order. Neville Lewis was also responsible for furniture selection and artwork selection. This was a very challenging and rewarding experience especially in the dining and cafeteria areas.
The United Center covers 960,000 square feet and is located on a 46-acre parcel, west of the Chicago Loop. Development of a 3D model and computer animation of the facility to assist the client in securing funding for the project ...
Consists of approximately 225,000 square feet of office space on eight floors in Las Colinas Tower II. Supported by employee dining facilities, a state-of-the-art trading room, three technical libraries, a medical clinic, and boardroom ...
Consists of approximately 225,000 square feet of office space on eight floors in Las Colinas Tower II. Supported by employee dining facilities, a state-of-the-art trading room, three technical libraries, a medical clinic, and boardroom ...
