Centex Telemanagement
San Francisco, California

The Centex Telemanagement Company is a young, fast-growing San Francisco based firm with satellite offices throughout the West Coast, Chicago and New York. At the inception of the programming, the Centex personnel population was 80, but during the design process, the company grew to 126, expanding in every division and at every level.

The site is 22,000 square feet on the fifth floor of an enormous converted warehouse with uneven floors, bulky concrete mushroom capital columns, and no sprinklers, but offering wonderful views to downtown, the Bay Bridge and China Basin.

By request, the plan was to give windows to the greatest population possible and not to line the perimeter with enclosed offices and to offer maximum views from the reception area. Other programmatic dictates established direct circulation routes from the lobby to the President's office and to various divisions and avoidance of a "rabbit warren" feeling.

The main conference room, reception area and approach leading to the President's office, with visual connection to the customer service area, are made special by removing the standard tee-bar suspended ceiling, exposing the concrete structure and adding color, indirect general lighting, incandescent sources and coordinated carpeting.

Services included programming, space planning, interior design, furniture inventory, furniture selection, systems furniture design and art consultation and selection.