Great Spaces: Haworth Furniture Showroom
The conversion of a ground floor office space into a contemporary showroom, with maximum street visibility for furniture system displays and corporate offices, faced many challenges. Not a single wall was perpendicular to another and a large flexible open floor plate was created to showcase the versatility and mobility of the furniture. Existing entry doors and walls were replaced with a frameless glass entry and a single large pivoting frameless door to increase views into the space from the street. A combination of high output ultra efficient fluorescent tube lighting fixtures and warm high intensity discharge spot lights on a modern track system cast a museum quality lighting level on the furniture. This light and modern design is a visual surprise along the downtown streetscape and yet comfortably exists within the heavy Romanesque stonework of the historic McCandless Building.

AWARDS
2008 Grand Award BIA Renaissance Building and Remodeling Awards

PROJECT ROLE
Designer & Architect

PROJECT TYPE
Commercial renovation, downtown Honolulu

Commercial Renovation of Existing Structure

SUSTAINABLE FEATURES INCLUDE

• Adaptive reuse
• High efficiency lighting
• Low VOC paints