Your First Look at RadioShack Inside!
#1
Posted 26 May 2004 - 09:08 PM
The Rotunda - Main Entrance to facility:
Looking up to the top of the Rotunda:
Lobby:
Grand Stair:
Looking outside from Commons Building:
Dining Room - This is the two story space that we were commenting on when the building columns were being poured:
End of Dining Room:
Looking back toward building core in Dining Room:
Retail Store from 7th Floor:
Looking west and down toward RadioShack Circle from 7th Floor:
Main Entry & Rotunda from 7th Floor:
Two Story corner on 7th Floor:
Another view of the two story corner:
Upper Level of connecting bridge:
Looking down on the Dining Room:
Main Corridor in Commons Building from 2nd Floor:
#2 ghughes
Posted 26 May 2004 - 09:19 PM
#3
Posted 26 May 2004 - 09:57 PM
#4
Posted 27 May 2004 - 08:54 AM
Any chance once it is finished that they might have an "open house" for the general public? OR maybe a special tour for forum members??? That would be awesome. Pier 1 and The Tower too!!!
#5
Posted 27 May 2004 - 10:29 AM
#6
Posted 27 May 2004 - 12:26 PM
Some of the forum members that have been to our site probably are familiar with the full sphere panoramas. The Rotunda - Main Entrance to facility appears to be a great spot for such a panorama.
If Radioshack lets us take a 'before' facility dedication tour and is agreeable for that Rotunda photoshoot location, I would be glad to take the image and give them a copy on CD-R. I would even help them put it on their RS website. Then of course we would need to UPdate Johns Architecture in Downtown Fort Worth website too.
Just hollar when you are ready.
Dave
Dave still at
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#7
Posted 27 May 2004 - 12:58 PM
#8
Posted 27 May 2004 - 06:50 PM
#9
Posted 30 September 2004 - 08:30 PM
Construction on Building C will continue through this year. The RS Store will be completed sometime about that time too.
The Commons and Building A annd B should be virtually finished. Landscaping on all sides of the campus is very lush. The roads are almost all completed and the stoplights on Henderson and Belknap are up and running.. argh!
#10
Posted 30 September 2004 - 08:33 PM
The project is looking nice and I do have a few new photgraphs on the building page.
#11
Posted 11 October 2004 - 04:55 AM
RadioShack learning to open up
By Heather Landy
Star-Telegram Staff Writer
FORT WORTH - Of all the concerns RadioShack employees have had about moving from a traditional high-rise to a modern campus with an open floor plan -- How will I cope with the noise? Can I still take a personal phone call? Will the smell of my co-workers' tuna sandwiches drift into my work space? -- perhaps none has wreaked more psychological havoc than the prospect of being stuck in a cubicle.
Almost everyone, including senior executives, will lose the four-walls-and-a-door setup that tells their colleagues, "I have arrived." Sleek gray file cabinets and portable dividers are the only barriers between co-workers at the company's new downtown headquarters. Even the in-house lawyers -- who, it has been determined, need privacy from other departments but not from one another -- will enter the brave new world of open space. For some, the transition will not be easy.
"I think there's just sort of a stigma that goes with having a cube -- that it means you're not as important as people who have an office," said Karen Welninski, a nine-year employee who lost her office. "I thought: 'If I'm in a cube, where does that put me? At the bottom of the totem pole?' "
But with nearly everyone relegated to cubicles, RadioShack's sense of corporate hierarchy is being turned on its head.
Welninski said she developed a sunnier outlook on the cubicle situation after spending time in the IdeaLab, an 8,000-square-foot model of the new office space. RadioShack built the replica at its soon-to-be-vacated Charles D. Tandy Center headquarters and conducted tours to give employees a sneak peek at their new digs.
Welninski's department, visual merchandising, was sent to work in the lab for almost a year to help the company see how employees would use the new space day-to-day. They tested high-tech conference rooms, a beautiful kitchen, inviting lounge areas and, of course, the cubicles.
Cubicles and common areas that encourage collaboration are popular now in office design, according to John Niesen, director of interior architecture at HDR Architecture in Dallas.
"If a company is trying to promote inter-office communication or be more transparent to their clients, these are physical manifestations of how an organization can play those efforts out," Niesen said. "Designers sometimes translate words and mission statements into architectural terms."
He also speculates that the need for easy technological updates has fueled the rise of cubicles. RadioShack's new campus and the new Pier 1 Imports tower nearby have raised floors that hide phone lines, computer cables and wiring for the heating and cooling systems. It is easier to fix, reroute or upgrade the equipment when there are no office doors or bolted-down desks in the way.
For RadioShack, which wanted to move away from a closed-door environment in a 1970s-era building, the low-rise, open-space campus was an obvious answer, company executives say. More than 2,000 corporate employees will relocate to the campus in shifts through the end of February.
Most of the cubicles at the new campus measure 8 feet by 8 feet. Some are 8 feet by 16 feet to accommodate side tables and chairs for staffers who often hold small meetings. There will be a handful of enclosed offices, mainly for human resources officials whose jobs demand strict confidentiality. There also will be several enclosed rooms where employees can find privacy for activities like conferences with a superior or phone calls to a doctor.
Mostly, employees will be encouraged to interact in the common areas. The lounges, for example, allow wireless Internet connections so employees can work on a laptop computer while relaxing on a couch.
"It's kind of like a house. Everyone has their own bedroom, but you spend most of your time in the kitchen or the living room," said Tim Abbott, one of two human resources specialists assigned to help employees make the transition to the new work environment.
For the visual merchandising team that tested the IdeaLab, the format promoted conversation and helped bring the department together, said Lucy Wickersham, who has worked in the department for a year.
"We're all friends. We know about each other's families," she said.
All the chatter may bother some people, but at 23, Wickersham represents what office designers see as a generation hard-wired for open environments.
"I'll be doing e-mails, working on graphics and talking on the phone at the same time," said Wickersham, who designs instruction booklets that show RadioShack store managers how to arrange their merchandise. "If it's not like that, I can't work."
A few cubicles over, Welninski, 31, had to work a bit harder to adjust. But she said she has grown accustomed to the busy surroundings and is bouncing back from the initial ego blow of being assigned to a cubicle.
"I'm getting over it," Welninski said. "It took a month or two, but I'm getting over it."
There are two pictures at http://www.dfw.com/m.../9890327.htm?1c
#12
Posted 26 October 2004 - 09:06 AM
#13
Posted 03 November 2004 - 09:19 PM
Anyone seen the fountain lit up at night? I hear it pretty nice.
#14
Posted 03 November 2004 - 09:49 PM
#15
Posted 03 November 2004 - 09:59 PM
#16
Posted 03 November 2004 - 10:11 PM
#17
Posted 15 November 2004 - 12:40 AM
John, as i have been back from my honeymoon for months now, I will keep with my promise I made to you on the corner of Throck & 3rd and post some Tower pics.. (I'll find an appropriate relevant post to do that at) But first! Great shots you have of the RS construction .. to complement those, I have some great (approved) shots of the interior of the new RS campus since its opening incase y'all fine folks were interested:
dining hall:
seventh floor of the "East Fork" building (what's under those funky overhangs you see from the outside)
EF 3rd floor coffee lounge
not meaning to have a shameless plug, but to not flood your posts with huge pictures, the rest can be seen at downtownfortworth.com/story-movingin.asp
cheers!
lobsta
#18
Posted 15 November 2004 - 08:43 PM
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