Tria Health is the first office tenant attached to Grand Place, charting a path forward for future occupants and establishing a focal presence for the company in downtown Kansas City. Generator Studio was tasked with a 25,000 SF tenant improvement of the original Kansas City Star newspaper building, designing a space that answers the functional needs of a healthcare provider and its growth while honoring the building’s rich architectural heritage.
The office design balances maximizing natural light and maintaining a strong connection to the outdoors while ensuring privacy and HIPAA compliance through strategic acoustical separation. Sliding glass doors for personal offices and operable garage doors that open to a large, airy break room on the north side help create a seamless harmonious flow between the inside and the outside. The layout is characterized by long corridors leading directly to windows that cast light down each passage, providing unobstructed site lines and naturally lit walkways.
Tria Health believes in healthcare delivered differently, and the provider’s new office reflects that concept. Tria’s new office amplifies and celebrates its historic reuse of Grand Place with exposed brick and steel paired with fixtures created using old machinery parts originally used in the building. The expansive break room is accented with copper pipes affixed to the base of its counters and light fixtures with shades created from previously used turbines.