Novartis sorely needed a better place to greet visitors to its 230-acre campus in East Hanover, New Jersey. The existing structure wasn't welcoming and didn't accommodate a flow of people, much less offer a pleasant place to sit and wait, says the company's head engineer, Randy Dias. With a light, airy, curvilinear design, the New York architects Weiss/Manfredi sought to provide an effortless way to bring visitors in from the campus parking lot, register, and board a small shuttle to their desired destinations—“a sort of Möbius strip in its movement strategy,” says principal Marion Weiss.
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