Article source: Eskew+Dumez+Ripple

This new corporate headquarters for a local advertising agency is a reaction against the standard issue office environment. People require interaction in today’s workplace as they go to work to collaborate, to brainstorm, to do research, to do a range of activities they don’t necessarily think of as “work” in the traditional sense of the word. Much of what we observe in creative environments is a more informal interaction in settings not typical or traditional, such as chance meetings in corridors or conversations around the coffee pot.

Our design is structured to reinforce that culture of openness. To accomplish this, we have radically altered the internal configuration of a 1970’s era data center while leaving the exterior essentially unchanged.

Renderings (Courtesy of Eskew+Dumez+Ripple)

• Architect: Eskew+Dumez+Ripple
• Name of  project: Lamar Advertising Headquarters
• Location: Baton Rouge, Louisiana
• Client: Lamar Advertising
• Project Size: 115,000 square feet
• Year of Completion: 2011

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