Image Credit : Steve Hall, Hedrich Blessing
Project Overview
Housing Morningstar’s engineers, user experience designers, and product management teams, the 14th floor was designed for the company’s technology employees in its global headquarters in Chicago.
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Project Creator
Team
Gina Berndt
Kristin Rosebrough
Project Brief
The floor reflects the Agile development team’s process – the flexible open workspace with easily movable sit-stand desks for changing team dynamics, stand-up meeting rooms for team scrum meetings, and “The Drum,” which serves as an auditorium with bleacher-style seating shaped like Morningstar’s signature logo for mid-sprint cycle and final presentations. Writable surfaces, lockers, and phone rooms also support impromptu needs and a mobile lifestyle within the office.
Design Challenge
The overall space was planned as a series of boulevards and pavilions, which defined neighborhoods for the teams. The over-sized boulevards create opportunity for impromptu gatherings, while brightly colored pavilions provide identity and support to the neighborhoods at each of the quadrants of the floor plate. On either side of the building core, the teapoint and The Drum serve as major landmarks.
Interior Design - Corporate & Commercial
This award celebrates innovative and creative building interiors, with consideration given to space creation and planning, furnishings, finishes, aesthetic presentation and functionality. Consideration also given to space allocation, traffic flow, building services, lighting, fixtures, flooring, colours, furnishings and surface finishes.
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