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Breaking Down the Walls at Bloomberg
STUDIOS Architecture created a New York headquarters designed to foster collaboration and creativity at the media company
By John Gendall
The success of Bloomberg LP can be attributed, in part, to its willingness to break rules. In designing the financial data and media company's new headquarters, STUDIOS Architecture took a page from its client's book and broke a few rules itself. The result is what a juror called “interior spaces that generate tremendous productivity and creativity, fostering collaboration and communication.”
Formerly dispersed between five different sites throughout New York, Bloomberg's operations now occupy a number of floors at 731 Lexington Ave., a 55-story building and a BW/AR finalist this year. With open-plan workbenches and lively graphics and art displays, this is an energetic atmosphere for employees. The new headquarters expresses the corporate ideals of the tenant -- communication, transparency, and openness.
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