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 in | Canadian Interiors Vol. 55; no. 6; pp. 33 - 38 |
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Format | Trade Publication Article |
Language | English |
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Toronto
IQ Business Media
01.11.2018
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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. |
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ISSN: | 0008-3887 1923-3329 |