Under One Umbrella

摘要

It may be already a decade old, but One Haworth Center-the Haworth corporate headquarters and manufacturing facility in Holland, Michigan-still seems new. Sunlight cascades through the soaring atrium that spans the building's north flank, flooding 300,000 square feet of office space, spilling down the sprawling entryway staircase into the ground-floor cafe. The structure's three stories of glass and steel and its green roof engagein a seamless dialogue with 225 acres of western Michigan nature, connecting employees (Haworth calls them members) with the grasslands and marshes that surround the LEED Gold building. "I've been coming here for ten years," says Dick Haworth, chairman emeritus of the privately held office-furniture company. "And I still smile each time I step inside."