6.2.08 | After years of experiencing the building through AutoCAD layers and endless combinations of PowerPoint slides, I was finally walking through the door of Haworth Center in Holland, MI. I floated past the greeters in a stupor, and felt my knees go weak. Is this waking life, or am I trapped in a Perkins+Will rendering?

5.26.08 | Sustainable design got a very visible boost this week with the opening of Haworth’'s radically reworked headquarters building. Heralded during its design and construction phases as a model of environmental sensitivity, the structure unveiled on May 21 delivers convincingly on its promise.

5.26.08 | Colebrook, Bosson, Saunders caught my attention over ten years ago when I was trying to find a way to get an 85lb, 21 inch CRT off of my desk. While flat-screen monitors were not price-attractive in those days, at least CBS was thinking along the same lines as I was, and was offering more elegance than was typically of the upright computer carts found in hospitals.

5.5.08 | Introduction
Most architects are faced with significant competition when they decide to compete for a large industrial facility design project; when the process includes both architects and design-build contractors this competition often becomes both more severe and more polarized. And neither the design firm nor the developer is often able to step out of their metaphor for industrial design quality.