Head tilted back, Frank Gesualdi is standing in Nike’s Midtown office, admiring a “diaphanous surface,” as he calls it, that stretches up toward the double-height ceiling. The Studios Architecture associate principal is talking about chain link fencing, mind you—a surprising divider to find on the premises of a Fortune100 company. But few things are more city-gritty than chain link, and the Oregon athletic-wear company is intent on burnishing its street cred, which he and principal David Burns were amped to do in collaboration with Nike’s workplace design team.
