If You Build It, pt.1: For those in the physical world

To create a home base for its Greater Toronto Area operations (PCLs largest district, employing 600 professionals), the company chose a firm with which it has shared a long history of collaboration: B+H Architects. To facilitate senior staff's propensity for closed-door conversations, B+H place...

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Published inCanadian Interiors Vol. 55; no. 6; pp. 33 - 38
Main Author Totzke, Michael
Format Trade Publication Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Toronto IQ Business Media 01.11.2018
Subjects
Acoustics
Architects
Architectural engineering
Building construction
Collaboration
Construction industry
Employees
Engineering firms
Ferguson, John
Flooring
Interior design
Landscape architecture
Privacy
Raw materials
Sustainability
Canada
United States > US
Saskatchewan Canada
Australia
North America
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Summary:To create a home base for its Greater Toronto Area operations (PCLs largest district, employing 600 professionals), the company chose a firm with which it has shared a long history of collaboration: B+H Architects. To facilitate senior staff's propensity for closed-door conversations, B+H placed their offices at the centre of the plan, but used all-glass fronts for visual connection to the rest of the office; switchable glass allows for instant privacy. Tasked with fitting over 500 employees spread over six separate Kitchener/Waterloo locations into 100,000 square feet-in a twostorey building in Waterloo's Idea Quarter, home at one time to the once-untouchable tech giant BlackBerry-ABA had to convince GHD to, as Ratz explains, "make a major cultural shift": rethink the way they had been working and plan for the next generation of leaders and for the future of the company.
ISSN:0008-3887
1923-3329