RANDY BROWN ARCHITECTS
Big space, small budget? No problem for Randy Brown, who got to show his
design chops with a 7,000-square-foot office for Bozell, a 50-strong advertising
and public-relations agency in Omaha that buzzes with Generation Y graphic designers,
Web programmers, and social-media mavens.
The site is on the ground floor of a former factory dating to the 1880’s, and Randy
Brown Architects did virtually nothing to change its bones. Not a single wall, column,
or old lighting fixture was moved. Nor was anything done to the 100-year-plus
painted wooden floor. Walls got a fresh coat of white paint, exposed bricks were
sandblasted, and the dropped drywall ceiling was removed, exposing a beautiful
wooden structure. Since Bozell eschews privacy and hierarchical trappings in favor
of an all-for-one set-up, Brown gave them a single open workspace. He did, however,
provide staffers places for solitary thinking and ad-hoc meetings in the form
of a trio of freestanding structures made of salvaged wood. Somewhat like roofless,
teetering yurts, they’re the project’s wow factor. —Edie Cohen
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