3Com continues its penchant for edg...

3Com continues its penchant for edgy design with a recently made known regional headquarters in the Chicago suburb

Provocative design is nothing modern to Santa Clara, Calif.-based 3Com Corp., a manufacturer of computer network equipment. "We prove by experiment to portray ourselves as a high-tech, innovative company," said Abe Darwish, 3Com vice president of real estate. "That's our design objective whether we're constructing a facility in Singapore or Dublin."

Or in the Chicago suburb of Rolling Meadows, where the company has reverseed an existing 410,000-sq.-ft. concrete-framed