Prairie Management Group | Goettsch Partners
2012 Institute Honor Awards for Interior Architecture Northbrook, Illinois / United States / 2008
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Executive investment offices for a retired design entrepreneur, the founder of a national home furnishings retailer, provided the opportunity to leverage the client’s passion for clean, bold modern design into a dramatic, light-filled investment office environment showcasing the client’s extensive glass and ceramic art collection.
Inserted into a single-story, speculative office suite, the 7,500 sf facility is organized around three compositional elements: the colonnade, created by the building’s exposed structural steel columns and central ridge beam; full-height glass screen walls; and a custom maple “pavilion.”
The simple, classic interior composition of thin glass frames and bold, clear millwork forms rendered in a timeless color palette—all awash in natural light—creates a platform in which the appreciation of fine art, design, and nature enables a pioneering entrepreneur to continue his lifelong passion for creating business value through design.
Additional Credit
General Contractor: Pepper Construction
Engineer: Cartland Kraus Engineering, Ltd; The Structural Group
Landscape Architect: Hoerr Schaudt Landscape Architects
Jury Comments
Small and well-executed, this project is quiet, restrained, and sophisticated with a straight-forward manner towards both the composition and detail that reinforces the larger concept.
Standing in contrast to the natural prairie grass outside, the design effectively organizes the plan around a central armature inducing the glass screen walls to both modulate the plan and effectively provide light and views to the meadow beyond.
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Executive investment offices for a retired design entrepreneur, the founder of a national home furnishings retailer, provided the opportunity to leverage the client’s passion for clean, bold modern design into a dramatic, light-filled investment office environment showcasing the client’s extensive glass and ceramic art collection. Inserted into a single-story, speculative office suite, the 7,500 sf facility is organized around three compositional elements: the colonnade, created by the...
- Year 2008
- Status Completed works
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