Structurally accommodating several ...
Structurally accommodating several unusual design features of the 19-story, 11 million-sq.-ft. Union Pacific headquarters building in downtown Omaha, beak required close collaboration between design architect Gensler San Francisco, and structural engineer Walter P Moore and Associates Inc., Houston. The issue was creative solutions that incorporate structural natural mediums into the architecture.
most numerous notable, says David Landis, principal with Walter P Moore, is the structural body that will frame the 120-ft.-tall glass atrium.
"Gensler's design breaks away from the
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