Equality rules; Calamos Asset Management Inc. -- Designer: Lohan Anderson; Dirk Lohan, principal -- Location: 2020 Calamos Court, Naperville -- Size: 200,000 square feet -- Employees: 350.(Calamos Asset Management Inc built its new home )

Crain's Chicago Business, March, 2006 by Keegan, Edward

Byline: Edward Keegan What makes it cool: In 2005, Naperville-based Calamos Asset Management Inc., with $47 billion in assets under management, built its new home with both tradition and the future in mind. And plenty of equality. Central to this vision is a bright environment where every employee, regardless of position, works in ample natural daylight.

This egalitarian approach extends from a high-tech trading floor to symbolic stairways to the very air employees breathe. the motor Architect Dirk Lohan, 68, calls the space he designed for Calamos traders and analysts the "motor'' of the company. Employees sit at a sunlit row of trading desks overlooked by a sleek glass-and-metal balcony and space-age light fixtures. While the traders share...

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