One Manhattan West

We were challenged by our client to design three new floors within their existing office stack that were "distinctly different" – with the intent to delight, engage and enhance colleague experience at their One Manhattan West location. Design Goals: • Create a hospitality driven environment that encourages interaction, incidental encounters and craveable social spaces to recharge • Provide varied space types with adaptable settings that support neurodiversity - allowing colleagues to determine how and where to work - both as an individual and in team • Connect employee values with Client values - embrace diversity, inclusion, wellbeing and commitment to the community • Embrace user enabling technology & innovation in sustainable design & materials • Prioritize physical and mental health with opportunities for rest, recuperation and inspiring distraction The design provides sweeping organic shapes, rich warm materials, unique and varied furniture, sculptural lighting, live plants and abundance of natural light. Features include a large flexible gathering zone with a stage and technology for presentation and entertainment, barista / market, conference center with reconfigurable multi-purpose rooms, living room inspired breakout areas with fireplace and upscale finishes, and an extensive variety of space types. Over (40) work settings encourage differing behaviors and postures throughout the day. Purposeful mix and placement of neurodiverse settings engage everyone - such as high focus quiet zones, and 1p booths with adjacent views to the outside, monitor arms, user-adjustable lighting and acoustic materials - for areas with low distraction. Mental and physical respite spaces such as Privacy/Wellbeing rooms with floor space for multi-cultural activity, and an enhanced Quiet/Meditation room offer extensive lighting controls for varied light levels and temperatures, sound control, rock garden with plants, and furniture, textures, and material selections that were taken from neurodiversity research. ADA enhanced team spaces provide adjustable furniture and technology that supports visually and hearing impaired. To further enhance sense of community, artwork is displayed from Artlifting – which showcases work by artists impacted by homelessness or disabilities. Local photography and accessories add a personalized look and feel throughout. The design sets the stage for the next phase of workplace – as a home for ideas, connections, conversations and culture.