Kohler Co. Medical and Personal Services Building

The building is part of a 6,000 person manufacturing complex in a community of historic significance. The same Architect designed all three structures in the 1920's with strong masonry forms used to relate the new with the old.

A special mix of brick was ordered from the same kiln in Massachusetts, which had fired the brick for the original buildings. To keep the height of the new structure below that of the surrounding buildings, the interior spaces were programmed to permit the first one and a half levels to be placed below grade. Screen-like walls of glass were designed to extend between the angular, masonry masses.

To blend with the softness of the older structures, the character of weathering steel was selected for all fascias and a series of articulated over-hangs.