An open and transparent approach to corporate offices workspace!
In this week’s EZarchitecture-Work podcast, we will discuss the design for the Bloomberg LP Headquarters building , located in Midtown NYC.
It is the headquarters of one of the largest financial software, media, and data companies of the world.
The building was designed by the Architect Cesar Pelli and Associates, and the Interior Architects were Studios Architecture and Pentagram.
Here is our discussion regarding the building and Bloomberg Headquarters LP. Check out our Podcast!
The offices are located at the lower level of the 1.4 million square feet Bloomberg tower development project, or One Beacon Court Building( nobody refers to it that way !).The company provides financial software tools such as analytics and equity trading platform, data services and news to financial companies and organizations around the world.
The One Beacon Court building, hosts also retail stores such as Home Depot, HM and The Container Store to refer some of them.
Views of the mid block between 58th and 59th Street.
Detail of the facade atrium
View of the Lobby with its stairs and atrium facing the outside piazza
Digital Display and lobby stairs
Pantry dominating the space and views of the street and the sky
Open workstations
Stairs facing atrium and reception
Another Pantry in the Lower level
Transparent and open image, for an icon of the news( and off course, creator of the famous Bloomberg terminals)
Transparency and openness is essential to the design concept of the Bloomberg headquarters. The entrance court both acted as a spatial unified as well as a metamorphic one. It remains us as a urban piazza, where all the attention is directed, from outside and inside the building. We found however, that the piazza seems to look empty.
The building lobby entrance is on the west side of the piazza, losing the attention and the noise that could have if it was facing the street.
Open, energetic and aggressive news maker.
For Bloomberg, the image its office and newsroom projected to the public and its employees is just as important as its operational requirements.
In the entrance courtyard at Bloomberg, a visitor’s focus is naturally drawn upwards to the sky lobby and the giant data display that symbolize the company’s focus, data.
We have been looking to several examples of Corporate Offices, from the more classic Law firm offices, to the Cool/Modern companies workspaces, and finally to the fashion and information giants.
Then, what do you think about these designs and functional approaches? Let us know what do you think.
Till next Office time!
