Red Hat

RED HAT

Innovation Meets Fabrication at Red Hat's Boston Office

Client: Red Hat  I  Design: Downstream   I  Fabricator: Xibitz

The Challenge

Red Hat’s Boston office brings together their Executive Briefing Center, Open Innovation Labs, and Engineering community under one roof. The environment needed to emphasize collaboration and inspiration, not only for the Red Hat internal team, but for their visiting clients and partners as well.

Connecting the executive space with the main floor is a fantastic 17-foot video wall. We developed a system that both supported the waterfall screens and enabled easy maintenance. The steel frames were built using a drawer-slide method, allowing each monitor to slide out from the wall. This seemingly-simple solution required extreme precision — the final result had to look like one continuous, solid piece.

RED HAT

The Result

With numerous media interactives throughout the space, exacting quality was demanded to ensure an immersive, fluid experience. Guided by Downstream’s design vision, we successfully implemented custom graphics, displays, and a suite of technological solutions.

The Executive Briefing Center is a perfect example: wrapped in wall-to-wall touchscreen technology, it’s a testament of Red Hat’s own software solutions, while simultaneously fostering further collaboration and ideation.

From the responsive reception wall to the hidden bar, surprising and delightful moments bring energy and excitement to the space. Every addition contributes to a sense of wonder and inspiration — the perfect atmosphere for one of the world’s largest and most innovative tech companies.

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Local 4

LOCAL 4

Lights, Camera, Action: Local 4's Studio Transformation

Client: Local 4  I  Design: Wright Sets   I  Fabricator: Xibitz

The Challenge

This was no superficial upgrade. Local 4 wanted a completely new set, replacing their outdated fixtures and green screens with sophisticated LED technology and a spacious, modern design. 

The entire set is supported by a robust frame produced in our workshop, designed to support the massive screens while allowing for passage behind the electronics for easy maintenance.

Surprisingly, the SEG system for this project is one of the standout elements. A network of LED’s provides color behind the grey SEG’s. Sophisticated mock-ups were required to achieve the precise color density to ensure a realistic look.

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The Result

This redesign has transformed the news studio from top to bottom. With new sets for news, sports, and the weather, the space is more energizing, inspiring, and immersive. 

We are tremendously grateful to the Local 4 team for their trust and support throughout the project. It was a pleasure collaborating with Michael Wright and our partners at ReveLux to bring this design to life.

AFTER

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Salt Lake City Feature Wall

A modern office interior featuring a staircase with glass railings and a large feature wall with vertical metal slats creating a mountain-range pattern.

Building a mountain-inspired feature wall

Client: Confidentail  I  Designer: Perkins&Will  I  Fabricator:  Xibitz 

This impressive feature wall, spanning 52 feet across and 4 stories high, transformed the client’s Salt Lake City office. The monumental wall celebrates the breathtaking view of the Wasatch Mountain Range and gives a whole new meaning to “bringing the outside in.” It was a delight working in collaboration with Perkins&Will on this project. They translated this vision with a stunning level of precision and passion.

The project’s massive scale presented unique challenges, particularly in addressing building deflection across multiple floors. Our teams developed an ingenious solution using custom-made and 3D-printed components that allowed for slight vertical and horizontal movement, ensuring the installation remains stable and visually seamless.

The curtain wall is composed of different widths of anodized bronze tubes, strung with steel tension cable, suspended from the ceiling of the 20th floor. Lighting was integrated at the top, midpoint, and bottom of the wall. The result is a striking work of art that reflects the clients’ status and honors Utah’s unique natural landscape.

 

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CNO Financial Group

Bespoke Branded Environment for CNO Reception Lobby

Client: CNO Financial Group  I  Designer: SCB  I  Fabricator:  Xibitz 

Xibitz was privileged to collaborate with SCB on this brand wall, designed to complement the CNO Financial Group reception lobby.

By using powder-coated wood panels and pegs, the letters C, N, and O are made visible from all angles. The wall harmonizes with the overall interior design while providing a special, surprising moment. 

The attention to detail and planning from the designers at SCB made this project a real success. The final product looks seamless, although it’s made of several different components. The level of quality is a testament to the design team’s planning and coordination and Xibitz’ execution. The final piece speaks to the methodic design cues that contributed to the sophistication of the overall space.

The brand wall required a high level of craftsmanship, from the millwork details to the architectural alignment of the components. We are honored to have been able to contribute our expertise.

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Angel’s Envy Bourbon Club

A Floating Cardinal for University of Louisville Angel’s Envy Bourbon Club

The University of Louisville had two asks. The first: to create a statement piece for the Schnellenberger Football Complex entrance. And the second: redesign the stadium’s Angels’ Envy Bourbon Club to provide a premium experience for guests.

Xibitz crafted the club’s new fantastic centerpiece: a gigantic metal cardinal that hangs elegantly from the ceiling. The welded-aluminum sculpture hammers home the bond between the Club and the Louisville Cardinals.

Xibitz also constructed the 8-foot long metal and copper bands floating around the cardinal, an homage to the barrel staves used to store whiskey and bourbon.

Chamberlain Group Showroom

The CGI Visitor Showroom was designed to complement the unique lens shape of the entry corridor. Three Kiosks mimicking the room’s curvature – spanning floor to ceiling – showcase Chamberlain’s company values through transparent graphics and display screens.

These kiosks were strategically placed to give an unobstructed view to the 50-foot curved niche wall. In the niche you can interact with the current product line showcased on custom, clear acrylic shelves suspended by a stainless-steel rod and clamp system. The niche is backlit giving the display a halo effect. High-gloss modern finishes were chosen throughout – tipping a stylistic nod to the automotive industry.

Tom Fox JA Biztown

Xibitz was proud to provide design/fabrication services at the Tom Fox Family JA Biztown to Independent Bank, Corewell Health – Helen Devos Children’s Hospital, Gordon Food Service, and Parkway Electric with the goal of simulating each business environment. Intended for 5th and 6th graders, each business features a branded storefront that embodies the real-life location, providing the students with a simulated business and consumer experience via industry specific interactives inside.

Gordon Food Service simulates a retail and warehouse experience. Featuring a 3-dimensional front facade with GFS branding, the interactive space includes a two-tier checkout counter with a usable trailer and lifelike tractor and cab. A large dimensional “G” captures the brand’s aesthetic, along with full-wall graphics that immerse a visitor in the warehouse experience.

Independent Bank has walk-up windows for children to “deposit” their money along with interactive workstations for bank employees. Incorporating a large-scale vinyl of a bank vault aids in creating a realistic experience. The entry of the space is highlighted by a halo-lit, dimensional, acrylic logo of the Independent Bank eagle.

Helen Devos Children’s Hospital features an examination room enhanced by a wallpaper mural surrounded by ipads with apps that explore fitness and nutrition. The interactive exhibit is further enhanced by a laminated wood pedestal that holds a microscope. In order to achieve the glass exterior appearance of Helen Devos Children’s Hospital, the exterior facade is clad in aluminum composite material.

Huizenga Group engaged Xibitz to design and build a storefront that highlights the functions of one of their companies, Parkway Electric. Inside the space, kids engage with a custom interactive that simulates how electrical wires are installed and connected to plugs. Another interactive experience allows the kids to connect circuits and generate electricity with a hand crank, illustrating how different items like motors or fans are powered. A highlight of the space is a Virtual Reality experience that allows the kids to be fully immersed in different electrical tasks, giving them a better understanding of how different tools and functions are used in the electrical industry.
















Rotary International

A multi-phased project was completed for Rotary International at its headquarters in Evanston, IL. This collaborative effort between Xibitz, Peter Hyde Design, and Angle Park creates a narrative that speaks to all visitors with intentionality.  

Upon walking up to the building, visitors observe vertical messages developed on vinyl displaying the core values of Rotary. As you enter the building, guests are greeted through the Rotary In Action Portal, a curved, interactive that introduces visitors to the space. The largest component of this project features a large fabricated sphere, representing the Earth. The sphere is best experienced from the interior, with wall graphics that display the people Rotary has impacted through it’s work. The sphere, fabricated from unique materials such as bamboo veneer on flat surfaces and a brushed chem-metal applied to narrower faces. The intended message with the design is meant to inspire visitors to do good in the world.

Bank of America

The Bank of America (BOA) Corporate Center, a focal point of its city’s skyline and lit at night from within, represents stability in its granite-clad base with marble columns at its entrances. While a building’s outer look and feel generally endures changes in its owners’ marketing initiatives and design styles, its interior requires more frequent updates. When BOA rolled out a comprehensive global branding effort at its corporate headquarters, Perkins+Will | Eva Maddox Branded Environments and Xibitz collaborated on crafting design solutions for 26 floors in three buildings.

Elements of the brand were woven into the fabric of the project’s finishes reflecting BOA’s corporate mission. The solutions used a wide variety of materials, including a diverse selection of wood, plastic, glass, graphics and stainless steel applications (all of which were chosen per stringent LEED® certification requirements). The end result is a corporate environment that reflects BOA’s unique brand identity; communicates its market position; and provides an attractive, flexible, employee-focused work environment.

Breakthrough Fuel

 HOK Experience Design and Xibitz combined their efforts to create an inspiring new space for Breakthrough Fuel’s new corporate headquarters in Madison, WI. A unique feature of this space is a logo wall, which contains polished acrylic blocks that are laser etched with client-logos and internally illuminated. Behind these blocks you can see an overarching image of an interstate, capturing the brand focus of shipping, fuel management and mapping. Each block is interchangeable and updatable.Also notable to the space is a values wall which is made up of textural shipping containers that carry Breakthrough’s core value statements. The core values are embedded into the wall within illuminated niches. The library space is designed in brand-colored books and shelving. The conference board room contains the Breakthrough logo with mirrored bronzed edges that reflect the warmth of the wood surrounding the text.