Perkins&Will Dublin Workplace Interiors Brochure by Perkins&Will London

DUBLIN STUDIO

Workplace Interiors November 2024

INTRODUCTION to Perkins&Will

We’re a global collective of designers and changemakers. We aspire to create places where humanity thrives in harmony with nature. Our future depends on it.

2,600+ global staff

32 studios

Founded in 1935

As part of a plan to meet Irish clients where they are, and to provide local project oversight backed by global design resources, Perkins&Will expanded into the capital city of Ireland in 2020. The Dublin practice is co-led by Justin Treacy, who joined the firm as Principal and brings decades of local knowledge and experience in the Dublin corporate interiors market to clients and project teams, and Lydia Collis, an Associate Principal and MBA graduate of the University College Dublin’s Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School.

Now in our fifth year in Dublin and under Justin and Lydia’s joint leadership, Perkins&Will have expanded the practice’s staff to support a growing number of clients, projects, and opportunities. Perkins&Will has a long-standing relationship with many clients in Ireland, having successfully delivered projects in the capital for over 10 years. Some of our key clients include Deutsche Bank, Citi, KPMG, Amazon, Interactive Brokers, Davidson Kempner and TikTok.

Our Dublin Studio have delivered over 30 projects in the last 5 years.

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Trinity

Davidson Kempner

Trinity College Bloomberg

Perkins&Will Studio

Interactive Brokers I

Citi

Our Services:

Interiors Design

Technical Due Diligence

We are currently delivering workplace projects across the following sectors:

Professional

Finance

Solas

DESIGN FOR LIFE.

Whatever the

project, Living Design

is the philosophy that guides our work.

Living Design

Since 1935, we’ve been on a mission to create beautiful spaces that inspire. To respect and restore our natural world. To foster feelings of belonging and holistic well-being in the built environment. To relentlessly pursue knowledge and innovation.

As the world grapples with increasingly complex social issues, climate challenges, and threats to biodiversity, we’re turning our aspirations into action. Through a holistic approach we call Living Design, we treat every project as an opportunity to make the world a better, healthier place.

Our Approach

Whether it’s an office, campus, neighborhood, public park, or entire city, Living Design is the philosophy that guides our work. We carefully evaluate every project through seven lenses, or design drivers: Poetics & Beauty, Conceptual Clarity, Research & Innovation, Technology & Tectonics, Community & Inclusion, Resilience & Regeneration, and Health & Well-being.

The Living Design Framework

Our design drivers are carefully crafted to best serve our clients and the whole of life: that is, every living species and the habitats they depend on. Each driver is measured by key performance indicators that assess qualitative or performance-based impact. By being more intentional in our process and purposeful in our outcomes, we’re doing our part to create a healthier world.

DESIGN DRIVERS

Research & Innovation

Exploration and discovery that leads to new knowledge, pushing beyond the limitations of today to solve the most complex problems of tomorrow.

Technology & Tectonics

The seamless assembly of the many disparate parts of a built environment into a cohesive, elegant, and well-crafted place.

Resilience & Regeneration

Solutions that rehabilitate and regenerate entire ecosystems—a must in a rapidly changing world with finite resources.

Poetics & Beauty

Design that is beautiful to behold and fills people with a sense of wonder and joy.

Conceptual Clarity

A clear, coherent, and recognizable concept that anchors the creative expression of a project.

Health & Well-Being

Design that promotes physical, mental, emotional, and social vitality for life in all its many forms, resulting in a thriving and diverse ecosystem.

Community & Inclusion

Design that addresses the fundamental human need for inclusion by fostering a sense of belonging, no matter one’s social or economic circumstances.

PROJECT EXPERIENCE

TROPICAL FRUIT WAREHOUSE

Dublin, Ireland

“A new home for a global tech brand.”

Client: Confidential Client

Size: 80,000 square feet

Completion Date: 2024

As a landmark in Dublin’s architectural landscape the Tropical Fruit Warehouse celebrates the juxtaposition of the old and new, and offers a vibrant and dynamic office space. Designed as a new home for a global tech brand, the project involved the retrofitting of a 19th-century warehouse, once used for storing tropical fruit imports, and a new ‘floating glass box’ extension cantilevered over the original warehouse, with views over the River Liffey. We worked closely with our client to create an office that not only celebrates their rich and diverse brand, but inspires their teams by providing a unique, happy, and creative environment for them to work in.

Recognising that the buildings heritage deserved to not only be preserved, but celebrated, our design retains the original exposed brick walls and timber beams, and uses a neutral palette around the historic fabric to highlight natural textures. This creates a cohesive experience throughout the space where the old and the new are seamlessly blended. Playful and vibrant elements are introduced on each floor, with every level drawing inspiration from a different tropical fruit to bring fresh, playful energy to the space.

Tropical Fruit Warehouse, Dublin

Client: Microsoft

Size: 105,000 square feet

Completion Date: 2020

MICROSOFT

Dublin, Ireland

The heart of collaboration

The tech world moves fast. First built in the early 2000s, One Microsoft Court in Dublin could no longer meet the demands of Microsoft’s modern, more collaborative workforce. A full re-work of an outdated office building, our design opens up the reception to allow daylight to flood the space, while the completely reimagined atrium features an open staircase linking all three levels. Dedicated project and focus rooms on working floors are centralised to create a spine from which desks branch out to form neighbourhoods close to natural light. Our inspiration was the forest, with the atrium as a clearing with a ‘look out’ tower high above the landscape.

The Atrium Reimagined as the Heart of Community

This wonderful quadruple height space perfectly encourages serendipitous encounters, the exchange of ideas and brings everyone together for sustenance, events and team building. New staircases connect the atrium to the upper floors and are expanded to include tiered seating for informal presentations and interactions. The atrium opens to the ‘garage’ an innovation lab- a space for people to experiment and play. Work happens everywhere and the building is set up to give choice for the employee.

THE SORTING OFFICE

Dublin, Ireland

A playful new workplace interior for a global tech company unites their employees, enabling them to explore, create, and innovate together.

Client: Confidential

Size: 200,000 square feet

Completion Date: 2023

Sustainability: LEED platinum, CAT B fit-out WELLv2 target, WELL Gold certification target

Over 50 years ago, this site was formerly home to Dublin’s mail sorting office. Today, it stands as the first home in Ireland for a leading global tech brand.

Drawing on the creativity, art and culture that fuels Dublin today, The Sorting Office brings the colour and energy of the city inside.

Ribbons of lighting mirror the shape of the neighbourhood skyline, murals by local artists line the vibrant atrium space, and vibrant monochromatic fit outs flood each floor with a different colour palette – creating a rainbow spectrum that lights up the atrium and the building’s external façade.

The journey through the eight floors of The Sorting Office is inspired by promenades across Dublin itself, with generous provision of safe spaces for staff to unwind along the way.

Layouts are carefully designed to mimic the variation provided by blocks and parks across an urban grid: flexible focus spaces that support diverse work needs are colocated with ample break-out, social, and sensory spaces to ensure a breadth of activities and environments are supported throughout every floor, all centred around the bustling atrium.

The Sorting Office, Dublin

Client: Confidential

Government Agency

Size: 144,000 square feet

Completion Date: 2019

Sustainability:

Interior fit out - Fitwel 3

Stars Awards: Winner, Interior

Architectural Project of the Year, Irish Building Design Awards, 2019

TREASURY DOCK

Dublin, Ireland

Our client is a forward-looking government agency who wanted to create a transformative and transparent workplace which would enhance connections, support staff and have best in class amenities. They decided to relocate their headquarters to a new waterfront location which could accommodate their requirements for a 21st century office. The office design, as a whole, reflects quality and stability to visitors without being lavish.

With a strong focus on sustainability and wellness, this newly uplifting working culture for staff now includes an activity based working environment.

The state-of-the-art design embodies this government agency’s values and culture whilst also providing a sustainable working environment and legacy for future generations. It meets the specialist requirements of the business units whilst allowing for future flexibility.

EXPERIAN

Dublin, Ireland

As a catalyst that’s kickstarting the business’s new vision for their work culture and workplace portfolio, our design for Experian’s Dublin HQ provides agile work settings for both local and international staff.

Size: 15,000 square feet

Completion Date: 2023

Sustainability: Designed to LEED Gold ® standards

We guided Experian on their first venture into contemporary, future-proof workplace environments, with a focus on staff wellbeing and talent attraction.

Attracting new talent in Dublin and encouraging a return to the office was at the heart of the design strategy for Experian’s Dublin HQ, but on the employee’s terms. We held local and remote stakeholder sessions to understand staff requirements and to communicate the design concept.

As the catalyst for Experian’s ‘Future of Work’ program, the new workplace offers a variety of activity-based settings for employees to ensure an environment of choice and inclusion, where wellbeing is paramount. Employees now have a variety of different spaces to use throughout their day, including informal break out and collaboration areas, a social cafepantry area, hot desking, focus booths, three private meeting rooms, and a formal boardroom.

Size: 15,000 square feet

Completion Date: 2023

DAVIDSON KEMPNER

Dublin, Ireland

Our design for this global investmet management client was guided by innovation and sustainability - key principles shared by our practice and the client’s firm - and both the needs and wellbeing of the client’s team who will use the space. The final design has revamped traditional office layouts by placing workstations at the centre of floorplans, encircled by a semi-open biophilic walkway.

Spaces at the periphery of the floorplate are designed for collaboration and relaxation, meaning that the captivating views surrounding the building are shared by all staff rather than restricted to certain desks. Collaboration spaces are designed

using low-profile furniture and glazed divider panels maintaining the views and connection to nature, with level 6 extending onto a small terrace adjacent to the collaboration area, offering access to fresh air for staff to refresh and recharge.

While highlighting the need to accommodate the practical aspects of housing current staff comfortably and allowing for future growth, the brief also identified the opportunity for this new space to be a ‘pilot office’ ; a blueprint for new collaborative, stimulating working environments that redefine and innovate our client’s design approach across their global portfolio of offices.

Davidson Kempner, Dublin

INTERACTIVE BROKERS

Dublin, Ireland

This new office, over two floors at North Docks in the heart of Dublin, unites 150 employees for the first time, as part of our client’s wider plan to expand their European operations and develop their culture and identity.

Size: 19,000 square feet

Completion Date: 2023

Sustainability: LEED Platinum ®

The projects inclusive design has flexibility built-in, allowing for future expansion as the company grows. Materials, furniture and products crafted by Irish suppliers were carefully chosen, giving employees a range of workplace options, breakout spaces and opportunities for collaboration and socialising.

A neutral, calm colour palette and natural materials have created a series of harmonious spaces, connecting the interiors with views out to the River Liffey. The timeless aesthetic with subtle, colourful and

creative accents mirrors the nature of our client’s business: sitting at the cross-section of tech and financial services.

The layout was designed to maximise natural light for all work areas, which are situated around the perimeter façade. It includes communal staff spaces, where staff can refresh and recharge, and enjoy views of the City beyond. The main canteen, located at the southern façade of the building, overlooks the banks of the River Liffey, providing panoramic views towards the Dublin Mountains.

Size: 38,500 square feet

Completion Date: 2017

INDEED

Dublin, Ireland

Perkins&Will were appointed by an international tech based recruitment company for an office fit-out on St. Stephen’s Green to provide workspace consisting of 370 desks/seating areas and staff recreational spaces.

The office has been designed to be flexible and with ‘wow factor’, incorporating coworking spaces which are hugely beneficial to both staff and clients and enabling selforganisation and personalisation.

The design comprises a new internal fitout of the ground floor of an existing office building. At ground floor level, the new reception desk provides a transparent and open welcome point, with discreet security monitoring. A full refurb of the existing atrium has created a range of space settings, with open plan offices, meeting rooms, and a new gathering space with bleacher seating and screens for display and presentation.