Not Your Typical Office Building!

Most office buildings are boring, very boring. They are typically rectangular or square in plan, standard 25-foot x 25-foot repeating bays of framing with repetitive floor-to-floor heights, and are not something engineers and architects get too excited about. The Krause Gateway Center in Des Moines, Iowa, does not challenge this notion; it redefines it, completely. The typical constructs of an office building are still present (open floor plan, large conference rooms, on-site parking) but the atypical aspects of the project separate it from the pack. …