美国《室内设计》杂志介绍HOK设计的诺福克南方公司总部

美国《室内设计》杂志详细介绍了HOK设计的诺福克南方公司总部室内项目。这是这家铁路公司位于亚特兰大的新总部，室内设计以“运动”与“创新”为设计重点。

这座总面积为750,000平方英尺（约69,677平方米）的办公楼将诺福克南方公司的运营、技术和总部员工整合在两座相连的办公大楼中。HOK的设计包括多样化的工作空间选择、休闲舒适的协作区、郁郁葱葱的户外露台以及定制的艺术品和雕塑，以向诺福克南方公司的历史与文化致敬。室内设计的亮点是一个标志性的螺旋形楼梯。

以下内容摘自美国《室内设计》杂志2022年6月刊：

“客户不想把总部大楼设计成火车博物馆，”HOK全球室内设计总监Tom Polucci先生说道。“公司现有建筑有着漂亮的火车头模型，但客户表示他们的业务不止这些，他们把公司视为一家科技公司，而不是铁路公司。”客户设想了一个经典的设计概念，他们希望公司能够给轨道工人和行政人员一种宾至如归的感觉，并提供充足的灵活办公空间来支持3,000名员工会面和协作。通过提供健身中心、餐厅、游戏室、托儿中心等强大的便利设施帮助公司与谷歌等大型科技公司竞争吸引人才。

由Pickard Chilton设计的建筑由两座办公楼（分别为10层和17层）和一座五层的裙楼组成，裙楼内设有大厅、便利设施和停车场。HOK从项目一开始就参与其中，帮助制定了一些建筑解决方案，尤其在裙楼部分。停车平台限制了本来可以是三层楼高的大厅的体积。“我们研究了不同的方案以及如何更好地把各楼层组织在一起，”Polucci先生说。最终大堂高度确定为32英尺（约9.8米），向二楼的休息室式协作区开放，创造了活力和热闹有趣的气氛。这也给HOK提供了创造一个被视为室内空间定义元素的大型螺旋形楼梯的机会。

楼梯的设计源于“运动”这一项目的指导性主题。Polucci先生提到：“诺福克南方希望以微妙、特殊的方式来展现运动的理念。”位于建筑入口外的一个场域特定艺术雕塑唤起了人们对隧道和耐候钢轨道的回忆。亚特兰大办公室室内设计总监Betsy Nurse女士指出雕塑就位于大堂外，在那里可以看到它与室内主楼梯的对比关系：“一个是超精致的，而另一个则是粗犷的。”

员工们聚集在位于五楼的食堂，它可以兼作全员会议室。员工食堂的设计就像一个有六个不同餐厅的美食大厅，坐落在两个室外露台之间；其中一个有可开合的玻璃墙，因此空间可以一起伸缩。室外区域面积为55,000平方英尺（约5,110平方米），包括下面一层健身房旁边的另一个露台，员工可以在那里的环形步行道上跑几圈。Nurse女士说：“‘运动’这一主题从身心健康的角度来看，对诺福克南方也很重要。”两座塔楼的玻璃墙楼梯进一步鼓励运动。

Norfolk Southern’s New Headquarters Featured in Interior Design Magazine

The multi-page article highlights HOK’s interior design that focuses on movement and innovation at the freight rail company’s new Atlanta home.

The 750,000-sq.-ft. workplace combines Norfolk Southern’s operations, technology and corporate team members in two connected office towers. HOK’s design includes diverse workspace options, casual and comfortable collaboration areas, lush outdoor terraces and bespoke artwork and sculptures that pay homage to Norfolk Southern’s legacy. The centerpiece of the interior design is an iconic spiral stairwell.

Excerpted from the June 2022 issue of Interior Design:

“The client didn’t want this to be treated like a train museum,” HOK firm-wide director of interiors Tom Polucci begins. “The existing buildings had beautiful models of locomotives, but NS said, ‘No, we’re more sophisticated than that.’” Betsy Nurse, HOK Atlanta’s director of interiors, adds: “Norfolk Southern sees itself as a tech company, not a railroad company.” The client envisioned a timeless concept where track workers and administrators alike would feel at home, with ample flex spaces to help the 3,000 on-site employees meet and collaborate. Robust amenities—fitness center, food hall, game room, childcare center—would help the company compete for talent against the likes of Google.

With architecture by Pickard Chilton, the ground-up headquarters is composed of two office towers (10 and 17 stories tall) joined by a five-story podium, which houses the lobby, amenities, and parking. HOK was at the table from the beginning and helped shape some of the architectural solutions, especially in the podium. The parking deck constrained the volume that would become the lobby, which could have been one to three stories high. “We studied different options and how the floors wove together,” Polucci says. The team landed on a 32-foot-high lobby that’s open to loungelike collaboration zones on the second floor and creates energy and buzz. This gave HOK the opportunity to create a monumental circular stair, the defining element of the interior.

The stair grew out of the idea of movement, the guiding theme of the project. “Norfolk Southern was looking to celebrate the idea of motion in subtle, special ways,” Polucci notes. Outside the building’s entrance, a site-specific sculpture evokes tunnels and curved tracks in weathering steel. Nurse points out that the artwork is right outside the lobby, where you can see its relationship to the stair: “One is super refined, the other is raw.”

Employees come together in the fifth-floor canteen that doubles as an all-hands meeting space. Designed like a food hall with six different vendors, it sits between two outdoor terraces; one has a retractable glass wall so the spaces can flow together. Totaling 55,000 square feet, the outdoor areas include another terrace by the gym on the floor below, where employees can do laps on circular walking paths. “Movement is also important to Norfolk Southern from a health and wellness perspective,” Nurse states. Glass-walled stairs in both towers further encourage physical activity.