Architectural models of various scales are displayed across Midtown manhattan Global firm’s studio Evocate Pederson FoxWhich was recently rebuilt by its in-house team.
With views of Bryant Park and New York Public Library Flagship, offices on the 42nd Street were refreshed to highlight the firm’s broad portfolio and improve its collaborative work style.
KPF Principal Marien Quok said, “When we decided to update our studio space, in New York (Kohan Pederson Fox) KPF met at the Principal Bryant Park, which we wanted what the office wanted to say about ourselves.”
“The consensus was that we needed a workplace that highlighted our values, including our associate approaches.”
New York City has served as the headquarters of the firm since 1976, and a major objective of this renewal was to present the office as an active creative studio.
Bringing natural lighting into the deep floor plate was also a priority, so the layout was replaced to highlight windows with 42nd and 43rd roads, as much as possible in normal areas.
Flexible public and communal social places were taken to the southern end of the building, which opened the park and library scenes below.
The studio spaces were then classified into four corners into a “neighborhood”, which makes zone to focus and the central location for the assembly.
This revival allowed the firm to reveal and persuade the elements of the original building.
These include concrete and terrazo floors, which were polished fresh, and structural beams and services visible against the white-painted roof.
KPF principal Brian Girard said, “Our intention was to restore the clarity of the original structure, a huge, but a simple 1920s office floor plate.”
“We revealed the content of space to remove the road walls from internal division and remove the pieces of several gradual renewal on the party walls and the original Terrazo floor.”
From the Elevator Bank Fore, where a roof of wooden slats produces intimacy, the bright white reception area opens.
Huge wooden model Citic Tower At the Beijing and Shanghai World Financial Center, under the chairmanship of Space, was displayed on the Terrazo Plints that matches a monolithic counter and column.
Meanwhile, all the places of white 3D-printed Citigep-KPF offices of New York, London, Shanghai and Hong Kong are placed on the adjacent wall, which are close to the textured wall tiles that show the abstract details from the previous projects.
Modernist furniture, including tan leather chairs and a black marble-top table, complement clean beauty and neutral color palette.
Natural lighting is used as a vefinding tool to guide visitors towards the South-origin cafe and lounge, with several conferences and a gallery location located along the route.
In the studios “Neberhoods”, open meeting tables, wide pathways and small, doorsless partners’ office communication and cooperation.
The temperature of a warm lighting is employed in these places to combat the blue glow from the computer screen and create an inviting environment.
Individual video conference room provides acoustic privacy, while the main conference room can be re -configured in a flexible manner for large meetings, lectures and events.
KPF has a total of nine studios in cities around the world including New York, London, San Francisco, Berlin, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Singapore and Seoul.
The firm is behind some of the tallest buildings in the world, and has recently been completed Twin skyscrapers for Zira Bank Headquarters In Istanbul and top-out a “Bix-Arts” Supertol skyscraper In Manhattan.
Is by photography Eric Legnel unless stated otherwise.
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