Next, students read up on green building projects like the energy- and carbon-neutral headquarters of Seattle's Bullitt Foundation, which is headed up by Denis Hayes, coordinator of the first Earth Day observation, and net-zero energy buildings.
It wasn't exactly the bloodiest of coups, shifting headquarters from neutral Ireland to neutral Switzerland, and reducing the participants by four.
He chose to show not in his polished Madison Avenue headquarters but on neutral ground -- in a tent behind the Cooper-Hewitt National Desiguestseum, where guesat sat on plumped white banquettes.
After all, Conservative headquarters was supposed to be neutral.
Once Fiat takes full ownership, Mr. Marchionne will be faced with the delicate decision of whether to locate its corporate headquarters in Italy, the United States or possibly a neutral location.
The brand's Milan headquarters is a vast concrete and glass temple to neutral colours and clean lines, with a purpose-built catwalk theatre at its heart.
— HSBC, the giant London-based bank, has moved its North American headquarters to a sprawling facility that it bills as carbon neutral in this hamlet about 30 miles north of Chicago.
Oaklawn is the one track where both have competed and won, and it is in neutral territory between Zenyatta's base in California and Rachel Alexandra's winter headquarters at the Fair Grounds in New Orleans.
Their global headquarters are now in Switzerland, presumably to position themselves as a truly neutral and "unbiased" international company.
Neutral Switzerland, bordered by Nazi Germany, Austria, Fascist Italy and occupied France, was not only the headquarters of the European operations of the U.S. secret services but also the hub of Soviet spy networks in Western Europe.
"The neutral palette was chosen to highlight the shoes," said Mr. Focke, who is currently designing the headquarters of the China Life Insurance Company in Beijing.
