The Publicis Groupe retained MONTROY with a goal to create an interactive office space, focused heavily on collaboration and a flexible work environment. The space was designed engage a post-pandemic return to the office and support a new model of hot desking and flexible seating assignments. This dynamic workplace is achieved by mapping out a floor plan that deviates from a static environment of offices and cube workstations to a dynamic plan of lounge collaboration seating, a plethora of meeting rooms in varying sizes from 30+ person war-rooms to intimate two-person meeting rooms.
Size: 40,000 SF
Industry: Advertising/Public Relations
Role: Architect, Interior Designer, Project & Furniture Manager
Each internal agency has a dedicated space on the wings of the building, with large open areas of hot desking, soft seating collaboration areas, meeting rooms, and a centralized oversized pantry and adjacent town hall cafe. It was important to keep a sense of culture and the energy that is crucial to each agency’s creativity. A smaller footprint but denser headcount required thoughtful solutions in a built space, such as furniture solutions that are fluid and moveable.
Our project team assisted Publicis early, prior to lease signing, while the space selection was still ongoing. Our designers reviewed shortlisted spaces for functionality and helped with lease negotiations. The project’s construction started with demolition of pre-existing interiors, which uncovered come historical building elements and plaster details along with unexpected plumbing and electrical infrastructure. Access to work areas was a logistical challenge due to these elements and in several locations our designers implemented creative solutions for the existing conditions to support healthcare tenants in adjacent spaces.
Photos: Ola Wilk Photography
