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Dynamic workplaces for innovative companies
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Introduction ― 4 Selected Projects ― 8
Front Cover: Studio Entrance, Confidential Client, Vancouver Left: Marine Gateway Office Tower Lobby, Vancouver
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The only constant is change With the pace of change in the world today, companies have to be agile and nimble. Creating a workplace that is all things to everyone at your company is key. We listen and get to know you and your company, then we create something that speaks to your staff’s particular needs and is flexible enough to change when you need it to.
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It’s about nurturing the culture of your business.
Workplace is about getting work done and creating a place where people want to be. In a business where people can work from anywhere, we create spaces where your people feel their most creative, productive, and happy. We spent time absorbing a company’s history, understanding what makes them tick, learning how they attract their talented staff, and forming personal relationships and a trusting rapport with the key decision makers. The results are spaces that are as agile as the companies, reflecting their values and harnessing their spirit.
↑ Adaptable spaces increase efficiency and allow for uses that may otherwise have not been possible.
� Providing shared spaces for a variety of work styles, keep employees engaged and happy.
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Selected Projects
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Confidential Gaming Studio Vancouver, British Columbia Client: Confidential Size: 1,158 square metres (12,462 square feet) Completion Date: 2018 Awards: Shine Awards of Excellence—Workplace, Interior Design Institute of British Columbia (IDIBC), 2019
― WHAT IT IS
A fun and playful satellite office for a successful gaming studio to accommodate their growing staff. 10
Our design represents a maturing aesthetic for the technology company.
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Confidential Gaming Studio
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
Illustrated walls show Vancouver being taken over by the characters from our Client’s game.
We development of a unique self-supported office space that is rich in embedded branding and cultural indicators.
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Confidential Gaming Studio Vancouver, British Columbia Client: Microsoft Studios Size: 5,342 square metres (57,504 square feet) Completion Date: 2018
― WHAT IT IS
Gaming studio entryway that transports visitors into a realworld representation of its top-selling game franchise.
→ Enter the portal
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Confidential Gaming Studio
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
The timber and light-filled tunnel draws inspiration from the game’s theme of “destroyed beauty, reclaimed beauty”.
Bench Accounting Office Interiors Vancouver, British Columbia Client: Bench Accounting Size: 4,656 square meters (50,114 square feet) Completion Date: 2017
― WHAT IT IS
A new flexible headquarters for a rapidly expanding technology firm.
There were high expectations of what the new spaces needed to provide, including: flexible work environments, a range of meeting room styles and sizes, informal collaboration spaces, and a strong cultural community heart.
Bench Accounting Office Interiors
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
We dedicated ample space and the majority of the budget to a range of shared spaces that enhance their community and shared vision.
Clockwise from Top Right: Benches are stored in walls and serve multi-functional needs; We provided 24 different typologies of workspace; We celebrated the biophilic features within the workspace, including the impressive row of 34 bonsai trees along one full faรงade on each floor.
Microsoft Canada Headquarters Vancouver, British Columbia Client: Microsoft Size: 13,285 square metres (143,000 square feet ) Completion Date: 2016 Perkins&Will acting as Executive Architect to Design Architect Clive Wilkinson Architects
― WHAT IT IS
A testament to excellence in delivery, working under an accelerated schedule to deliver a new Canadian headquarters.
Gaming Studio Vancouver, British Columbia Client: Microsoft Size: 2,740 square metres (29,516 square feet) Completion Date: 2013
― WHAT IT IS
Clean lines and collaborative spaces for Microsoft’s gaming studio.
Central to the design is a black core taking inspiration from Vancouver’s Black Tusk Mountain.
� Collaboration zones are delineated by coloured flooring mimicking the flora of meadows.
↓ Workstations are arranged in distinctive neighborhood grouping, giving everyone easy access to meeting rooms, huddle rooms and private offices.
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Miller Titerle + Company Office Interior Vancouver, British Columbia Client: Miller Titerle Law Corporation Size: 1,208 square metres (13,000 square feet) Completion Date: 2019 Awards: Shine Awards of Excellence—Workplace Total, Interior Design Institute of British Columbia (IDIBC), 2019
― WHAT IT IS
A raw yet refined space that celebrates authenticity and a hierarchy-free company culture. 26
The main boardroom—the hub of idea sharing and solution discovery—is centrally located and promotes complete transparency.
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Miller Titerle + Company Office Interior
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← All employees work from identical open-plan workstations
↓ Collaboration spaces such as meeting room are glazed for transparency and easily accessible from employee workstations.
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
A new kind of law firm based on a more passionate and more personal way of practicing law.
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Since 1935, we’ve believed that design has the power to make the world a better, more beautiful place.
That’s why clients and communities on nearly every continent partner with us to design healthy, happy places in which to live, learn, work, play, and heal. We’re passionate about human-centered design, and committed to creating a positive impact in people’s lives through sustainability, resilience, well-being, diversity, inclusion, and research. In fact, Fast Company named us one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies in Architecture. Our global team of 2,700 creatives and critical thinkers provides integrated services in architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, and more. Our partners include Danish architects Schmidt Hammer Lassen; retail strategy and design consultancy Portland; sustainable transportation planning consultancy Nelson\Nygaard; and luxury hospitality design firm Pierre-Yves Rochon (PYR).
For more information, contact: rufina.wu@perkinswill.com