The exterior is respectfully reworked, in keeping with the building's historic status. The interior detailing of two new atriums extends the building's original Art Deco style into a new vernacular. Spectacular new skylights, inspired by expressionist movies of the 1920s, light the seven-story spaces Bruner/Cott has carved from the building's core. The new enclosed courts, joined by the second level concourse, and served by exposed vertical transportation systems and public balconies, deliver natural light to inner office suites. Together with the basement, an existing warehouse in the rear was adapted into on-site parking.

Our challenge was to use the old elements of the Sears building as raw material to create a new building; to metamorphose a 1929 warehouse into a 21st Century office center.

For more than thirty years, Bruner/Cott has been a pioneer in the adaptive reuse of large-scale industrial buildings and continues to lead the field, making new architecture out of old buildings.