Realigning the culture: RadioShack's move to a new riverside campus in Fort Worth was more than a simple relocation--it symbolized a whole new way of looking at itself.(Office Buildings)

Building Design & Construction, January, 2005 by Wright, Gordon

When electronics retailer RadioShack realized that the layout of its headquarters building in Fort Worth, Texas, was incompatible with its emerging corporate objectives, it took decisive action. The company moved from two 19-story towers with 16,500-sf floor plates to a low-rise campus a block away that has 30,000-sf floors.

"RadioShack went from a predominantly enclosed-office environment to a virtually 100% open plan," says David Meyer, SVP with Dallas-based HKS Inc., the architect for the new headquarters. "It recognized that employees were working more in collaborative teams, and saw this as something that will continue to evolve. And it recognized that an all-private-office plan was not consistent with that work evolution."

That decision...

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