THE NEW YORK TIMES

The client brief was to move away from a corporate style workplace. With New York loft feel, crittall effect partitioning and simple meeting room numbers emulate symbolic brand of The New York Times, whilst oak timber joinery, tree trunk stools and planting softens and domesticates their workplace to create a workplace home from home. It was important to GTA’s design team to respond to the building and its views out. Inspired by blue iron balustrades of neighbouring 1950’s flats, iron base poser tables sprayed to a matching blue feature against the full height windows. The American style kitchen with grey and navy wood grain doors, marble effect stone worktop, raw steel fittings and prismatic glass lights serves a flexible break out and town hall space. The bespoke grid planters create subtle division between the open plan desking, meeting rooms and the ‘courtyard’ collaboration area. Real plants were carefully specified to suit this office environment and to enhancing staff wellbeing.