PROJECT DESCRIPTION

North America’s largest wealth managers tasked our team with creating a new headquarters in 196,000 sf on a total of five floors at One Vanderbilt to accommodate approximately 615 staff of the financial advisory groups in a mix of private offices, benching, and workstations. In addition, designed support and amenity spaces consisting of pantries, collaborative areas, and meeting rooms. Bringing together multiple business lines of top revenue producers was both a design and change management challenge.

The design narrative was built around the idea of a City as a

Canvas. Given the project’s profle as the new headquarters

for the US, as well as its proximity to major landmarks such

as Grand Central Terminal, Bryant Park and the Library, and

Times Square, it was important the design refected the

vibrant ever evolving urban landscape of the City. To

accomplishthisgoal,wecreateddestinationamenitypantries

refecting the materiality and motifs of these iconic places

expressedwithinthemodernarchitecturaldesignvocabulary

of the workplace design as well as the building. To further

infuse the design with meaning, we partnered with an under

represented artist based in the City to develop an original

artworkforeachfoorthatwasthenabstractedintopatterning

for architectural fnishes such as wall graphics and glass

patterning.Afullfoorisdedicatedtoaconferencecenterthat

has mixed sized conference rooms, training rooms, and

butler’spantry.