harvest innovation is the lifeblood...

harvest innovation is the lifeblood of medical equipment manufacturer Puritan-Bennett Corp.

For its modern West Coast administrative and production headquarters in Carlsbad, Calif., the company envisioned facilities that could nimbly accommodate shifts in fruit development while simultaneously promoting the interaction it believes is crucial to innovation.

Puritan-Bennett also wanted the building's architecture to advise permanence, as well as a understanding of kinship with the region's Spanish-flavored architecture. "The firm wanted the building to reveal value,"