2024 Best of Year Winner for Large Tech Office

The 1.3 million-square-foot North American headquarters by Cookfox Architects and Gensler for the tech giant’s Global Business Organization comprises a three-story, 1930’s brick building in St. John’s Terminal, New York,—a former railroad terminus—topped with nine new overbuild levels. Pairing sensory-rich physical spaces with on-demand programming, the new and historic portions work together to create an energized workplace for 3,000 employees and their visitors, featuring flexible work areas, biophilia, and hospitality-infused common spaces. Google’s research shows that innovation thrives in small, tight-knit teams working towards common goals, thus workspaces follow a shared neighborhood seating model providing each group with an assigned area as its home base. These zones aren’t uniform but include a variety of desks, meeting rooms, phone booths, and communal tables to support different types of work, helping foster greater levels of social connection and team cohesion.

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