Somerset Development, who renovated Bell Works, asked us to design an adaptive reuse of an empty office campus building outside of Chicago, in conjunction with Dirk Lohan of Wight & Company and NPZ Interiors. This development replicates the success of Somerset’s adaptive reuse of the Bell Laboratories headquarters building in New Jersey into a mixed-use retail, commercial, and hospitality venue.
The 1.5 million-SF AT&T building was designed in the late 1980s. Our design simplifies its post-modern vernacular to enable interaction between the various use groups who will populate the development. The tenant mix comprises: 1.2 million SF of office space; 60,000 SF of retail and 80,000 SF of conference facilities.