• Photography: Eric Laignel

    Photography: Eric Laignel

  • Photography: Eric Laignel

    Photography: Eric Laignel

  • Photography: Eric Laignel

    Photography: Eric Laignel

  • Photography: Eric Laignel

    Photography: Eric Laignel

  • Photography: Eric Laignel

    Photography: Eric Laignel

  • Photography: Eric Laignel

    Photography: Eric Laignel

  • Photography: Eric Laignel

    Photography: Eric Laignel

  • Photography: Eric Laignel

    Photography: Eric Laignel

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Corporate Offices (Over 10,000 sqm)

2020 WIN Awards entry: Publicis Groupe - Elkus Manfredi Architects

Publicis Groupe by Elkus Manfredi Architects is an entry in the Corporate offices (more than 10,000 sqm) Category of the 2020 WIN Awards

by Copy taken from 2020 entry 24 June 2020 2020

Publicis Groupe wanted a new workplace for its Boston team - one that could dazzle clients while inspiring and motivating its employees to creative new heights. By co-locating these talented employees, the company sought to synergize their collective creativity and achieve the Power of One.

The Need: Publicis needed to co-locate 1,500 employees from seven companies, all transitioning from separate traditional offices. While incorporating the company’s vision for a unified workforce, the new office also had to reflect each brand, integrate inviting communal spaces, and accommodate 100% activity-based work.

The Process: Designers guided employees through a robust employee engagement process. The skillfully facilitated workshops produced a deluge of information ranging from culture and desired work settings to furniture and finishes. Embracing a non-traditional co-creation approach involving end users in the process produced a dynamic, flexible, culture-shifting workplace.

The Result: From all-staff meeting in the double height amphitheater to brainstorming sessions in the café, colleagues are inspired to explore new places/ways to work in the 10-floor, 215,000 sq ft space. Curved benching and custom standing workstations offer a budget solution for a variety of quiet work settings; welcoming joy spaces/cafés and touch-down seating nooks promote movement and increase creative collisions. While a different color scheme adorns each floor and supports wayfinding, the shared top floor brings the whole spectrum together - a subtle manifestation of the project goal to unite all brands under one roof. The identity of each company is woven together into a unified space that can inspire Publicis’ creative workforce.

Last year more than 40 countries took part in the WIN Awards with strong showings from Europe, the Americas and Asia-Pacific. And we saw some truly outstanding interior designs, take a look at the winners from last year here.


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