Designed by HOK, the three story workplace serves because the Canadian headquarters for Boston Consulting Group.
Excerpted from Inside Design:
“Again in 2017, when the corporate tapped HOK for its new Canadian headquarters on three flooring—46, 47, and 48—of a tower rising in Toronto’s monetary district, BCG sought an workplace that might be dazzling sufficient to attract workers to the office, that would offer quite a lot of bespoke settings in order that groups might be as productive as potential whereas on-site. All of which is to say that when the pandemic hit in 2020—sending firms around the globe scrambling to determine how one can work remotely and, then, how one can lure workers again to the workplace—BCG was manner forward of the sport.
Certain, there have been tweaks to HOK’s idea for the 100,000-sq.-ft. undertaking due to the pandemic however the modifications amounted to fine-tuning a superb plan that was already in place. And the result’s this spectacular, ultra-sophisticated area that serves as a showplace for the corporate and a magnet for a workforce now numbering greater than 400.
The plan’s success began with carving out an atrium close to the window wall on the 2 decrease flooring—one benefit of coming to the undertaking whereas the constructing was beneath building was that this might be achieved earlier than the ground plates have been in place. Working with the developer, HOK specified a gap measuring a beneficiant 20 by 80 ft, envisioning it because the “coronary heart of the group,” Caitlin Turner, HOK director of interiors in Canada and the undertaking lead, notes. The atrium fills with gentle and opens up views of town and Lake Ontario. Rooms located off it are sided in glass so everybody shares within the sunshine.
Flanking the atrium are two uncommon work areas: raised glass-enclosed assembly rooms reached by small flights of stairs. These little getaways for teams are only one instance of the number of bookable areas discovered on all three flooring of the HQ. Workers can go from sprawling on lounge chairs for brainstorming classes to sitting at a desk to faucet away at a laptop computer.”
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