架构师提供的文本描述。由Dollar General公司选择来设计一个配送中心和员工中心，这个中心对于卡车运输来说是非常实用和高效的，就像它能够为员工提供舒适和协作一样，利奥·A·戴利公司明尼阿波利斯办公室的设计团队创造了这样一个地方。

Text description provided by the architects. Chosen by Dollar General to design a distribution center and employee hub that is as practical and efficient for trucking as it is amenable to comfort and collaboration for its employees, the design team at LEO A DALY’s Minneapolis office created just such a place.

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“DollarGeneral希望其工作场所的架构不仅仅是支持底线，”利奥·A·达利·明尼阿波利斯设计总监比尔·巴克斯利(BillBaxley)说。“他们希望这个设施能为员工的福祉做出贡献，让他们为自己每天所取得的成就感到自豪和拥有。”因此，我们的设计重点是鼓励这种观点。“

“Dollar General wanted the architecture of its workplaces to do more than support the bottom line,” said Bill Baxley, LEO A DALY Minneapolis design director. “They wanted this facility to contribute to the well-being of employees—to give them pride and ownership in what they accomplish every day. So our design focused on encouraging that perspective.”

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结果是什么呢？位于阿拉巴马州贝塞默，占地106英亩，拥有100万英尺的校园，其中包括六座建筑：一个干燥的仓库、行政办公室和员工中心、一个调度办公室和卡车维修设施、一个收货卡车大厅警卫室、一个货运卡车大厅护卫室、一个泵房和消防水库。该员工中心旨在促进员工的互动、安全和舒适，包括宽敞的更衣室和卫生间、一个具有充足食品加热能力的自动售货区、20个商业级冰箱和一个有600个座位的自助餐厅/休息室，有一个可容纳煤气烧烤的门廊。南光-透过半透明的玻璃窗扩散-赋予房间一种温和的阳光和始终舒适的气氛。

The result? A million-foot campus on 106 acres in Bessemer, Ala., that includes six buildings: a dry storage warehouse, administrative office and employee hub, a dispatch office and truck maintenance facility, a receiving truck concourse guardhouse, a shipping truck concourse guardhouse, and a pump house and fire protection reservoir. The employee hub, designed to facilitate employee interaction, safety, and comfort, includes roomy locker rooms and restrooms, a vending area with ample food-heating capabilities, 20 commercial-grade refrigerators, and a 600-seat cafeteria/break room with a porch that accommodates gas grilling. Southern light—diffused via translucent glass windows—endows the room with a gently sunny and always comfortable ambiance.

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休息室的巨大形象-再加上一座从设施一端延伸到另一端的光滑高架桥-平衡了巨大的仓库结构的规模。在整个设施中，LeoA Daly的设计者使用的材料反映了卡车和运输制造中常见的材料。嵌入轮胎面设计的预制混凝土面板爬上了仓库的墙壁，卡车尾门上经常看到有图案的钢作为走廊墙，定向的钢绞线板天花板模仿半卡车储存容器所用的压制纤维胶合板的外观。甚至该设施的标志墙都是模仿美元一般拖车上的外部标志。

The break room’s substantial profile—together with a sleek elevated sky bridge stretching from one end of the facility to another—balances the enormous warehouse structure’s scale. Throughout the facility LEO A DALY designers used materials that reflect those commonly found in the manufacture of trucks and transportation. Pre-cast concrete panels embedded with a tire tread design climb the walls of the warehouse, patterned steel often seen on truck tailgates serves as corridor walls, and oriented strand board ceilings mimic the look of pressed fiber plywood that lines semi-truck storage containers. Even the facility’s logo wall was modeled after the exterior signage on Dollar General trailer trucks.

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公司全球供应链执行副总裁约翰·弗拉尼根(John Flanigan)表示：“我们选择利奥·A·戴利(Leo A Daly)，是因为他们的设计反映了对我们使命和愿景的“团队以富有想象力和务实的方式解释了我们需要一个以工作和员工为中心的环境的必要性。”

“We chose LEO A DALY because their design reflected an understanding of our mission and vision,” said John Flanigan, executive vice president of the firm’s global supply chain. “The team interpreted our need for a hardworking and employee-centered environment in imaginative and practical ways.” 

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明尼苏达分会的美国建筑师协会承认利奥A戴利的原始设计与2012年荣誉奖。美国国际航空协会明尼苏达州评审团称，这座建筑“是对员工辛勤工作的颂扬”。它超越了各个部分的总和，以一种高效而又神奇的方式结合在一起。这证明，在正确的情况下，即使是一美元将军也可能是性感和有趣的。“

The Minnesota chapter of the American Institute of Architects recognized LEO A DALY’s original design with a 2012 Honor Award. AIA Minnesota award jurors said the building “celebrates the hard work of the employees. It transcends the sum of its parts and comes together in an efficient, yet magical way. This proves that in the right hands, even a Dollar General can be sexy and fun.”