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Article: Corporate structure relies on stone's timelessness: the atrium of the Headquarters Building, part of the Sprint World Headquarters campus in Kansas, features limestone flooring and tapered marble columns, giving the space a timeless feel.(Three-Dimensional Stonework)
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- Stone World
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- May 1, 2008
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In order to consolidate Sprint's operations, which were situated in more than 60 separate locations across Kansas City, into one central facility, the Sprint World Headquarters campus was designed in Overland Park, KS. And of the 18 new facilities, the Headquarters Building features more than 10,000 pieces of limestone and marble for flooring and columns.
According to Phil Dordai, a principal at RMJM Hillier of Princeton, NJ, which served as the design architect for the project, the Headquarters Building is in a very prominent, central location on the campus, comprising 223,000 square feet and housing the executive offices. "The ...