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Article: KPMB. (interior design firm of Bruce Kuwabara, Thomas Payne, Marianne McKenna and Shirley Blumberg)
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- Interior Design
- Article date:
- January 1, 1996
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An old New England mill undergoes tripartite conversion to reemerge as Hasbro corporate headquarters.
Begun in 1986 and finished eight years later, the corporate headquarters of Hasbro Corporation, a Fortune 500 leader among toy manufacturers, cover 300,000 sq. ft. of an 1899 knitting-machinery mill in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Originally there was a main building with satellite adjuncts that eventually were fused into a massive masonry-and-cast-iron entity. For decades, then, all manner of functions - from making to mailing and managing - were conducted under one roof. But then came the booming mid-'80s, and threats of spatial overflow loomed. Remedial counteraction ...
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