55 Hudson Yards
Boies Schiller Flexner, a globally recognized legal practice, has long operated with an entrepreneurial spirit while confined to the templated workplace of a more traditional law firm. BSF’s New York offices were re-imagined to align the built environment with the firm’s collaborative workstyle, while fostering a uniquely egalitarian corporate culture.
Boies Schiller Flexner, a globally recognized legal practice, has long operated with an entrepreneurial spirit while confined to the templated workplace of a more traditional law firm. BSF’s New York offices were re-imagined to align the built environment with the firm’s collaborative workstyle, while fostering a uniquely egalitarian corporate culture.
The flowing, organic nature of the design reminds people that there is something around the next corner, above or below you. A central sculpture spans the three main floors of the space connecting people visually across the business.
The flowing, organic nature of the design reminds people that there is something around the next corner, above or below you. A central sculpture spans the three main floors of the space connecting people visually across the business.
This project, the outcome of a full integration of a top-down analysis of the client’s workplace behaviors and design, delivered architectural solutions driven by aggregated data. This resulted in a space with no private corner offices, but rather a flowing space – a unique approach to open office design. An inversion of the traditional law office model, flipping perimeter closed offices to perimeter open workspaces, is promoting measurable increases in collaboration and employee workplace satisfaction.
This project, the outcome of a full integration of a top-down analysis of the client’s workplace behaviors and design, delivered architectural solutions driven by aggregated data. This resulted in a space with no private corner offices, but rather a flowing space – a unique approach to open office design. An inversion of the traditional law office model, flipping perimeter closed offices to perimeter open workspaces, is promoting measurable increases in collaboration and employee workplace satisfaction.
Critically, the design took associates out of private offices for the first time in a leading American legal practice. This controversial decision was supported by rigorous data analysis and a design focus on supporting the entire facility as “the office” freeing the focus on “the desk.”
Critically, the design took associates out of private offices for the first time in a leading American legal practice. This controversial decision was supported by rigorous data analysis and a design focus on supporting the entire facility as “the office” freeing the focus on “the desk.”
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