Confidential Fortune 100 Financial Services Institution

NEW YORK, NY

PROJECT TYPE:

Interior Fit-Out - Workplace - Design & Construction Administration

Completion / duration:

July, 2020 / 10 Months

scale:

27,000 sq. ft. / 8,230 sq. m.

The client needed improvement on their workplace design in order to improve employee morale and wellness amenities. One example in preventing a “sea of open desks” is to break it up with a library for quiet heads-down work. In order to break up the repetition of workstations, we created architecture that was both beautiful and functional - it’s a statement piece on it’s own.

My role for this project was to help rethink the use of the floor plate - making it more energy efficient and increasing head-count. In moving the private offices toward the core, daylight is maximized, open workstation counts increase and it frees up space to additional amenities and touch-down workspaces.

A work cafe encourages employees to work away from their desk for a few hours of the day. Through research of WeWork’s Workplace Strategy Team, this is proven to improve employee productivity by empowering them to work where they are comfortable and entrusting them to still complete their tasks - wherever the may be in the space.

Here, we created an experience in the library ceiling by designing options for a custom wallpaper to install on the ceiling. One scheme shows us bringing the adjacent Bryant Park inside, while the other is a take on the ceiling design at Grand Central Station.

This client came with intricate space standards, so there were few places to apply the WeWork design strategies. WeWork branding is notorious for unexpected details and surprises within the spaces we design. Where we found a moment within the client’s standards, we took it.

Part of my role was to work together with the WeWork Art and Graphics team to design client branding moments. Showing above is MDF wrapped in the same fabric as the acoustic wall system behind it. We subtly contrasted the two forms with a LED rope light tracing the bank’s abstracted logo.