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Earl Swenson Associates transformed a row of brick warehouses into the center of Nashville, TN's country music industry. The historic buildings house the production facilities of the Gaylord Entertainment Co., which operates the country music cable channel The Nashville Channel. The facility also contains a dance hall that recalls the Wild West with tow levels of balconies overlooking the dance floor. The ceiling sports papier-mache horses and video cameras that project the dancers onto a large television screen.
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The American Airlines Training and Conference Center in Dallas/Fort Worth, TX, was remodeled to make it more functional for several American Airline requirements while generating extra hospitality and conference revenue from clients. The 400,000-sq.-ft. center was made to exude an honest and understated look that would reflect American Airlines' fundamental philosophy. Its remodeling was supervised by Harris Design and Assoc.
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An eight-story building belonging to Steelcase Inc. in New York, NY, was renovated to accommodate the company's offices, showrooms and customer resource quarters in a single edifice. The architects contracted for the project belonged to the Kohn Pedersen Fox firm who worked with private practitioner J. Woodson Rainey, Jr. The design was informal to entice customers to come and look over the product display.
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