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Delaware North Companies World Headquarters

Key Center Tower

HHL Architects has designed various corporate and service site projects, including three previous headquarters, for DNC since the late 1970's. In the late 1990's, they requested that HHL assist them in reviewing potential Downtown Buffalo building sites for a new, upgraded and expanded, world headquarters. DNC selected the unfinished, newly built, Key Tower Building. Based on their growing needs, they required the top seven floors of this 13-story tower.

This project consists of the programming, planning, design and build-out of the top seven (7) floors to house the corporate operations and subsidiaries of DNC, approximately 350 people.

The challenge of this project was to provide new ergonomically sized and configured work spaces for employees unfamiliar with "new" work spaces, which fostered collaboration, while uplifting the spirit and moral of each employee. We designed the interior hard wall office spaces, located alone the exterior wall, with a clerestory glazing system on every interior wall to enable borrowed or direct daylight in virtually every interior space. We designed every conference space with full glass interior walls. This provided private meeting capability, while presenting a more open appearance.