Although NorthStar finances and owns a wide range of real estate, the firm has a strong focus on hotels and hospitality properties.  With this in mind, Think! designed a 22,000 square foot office as a blending of workspace with hotel ambience – the efficiency of an office with the comfort of a luxury hotel lobby.

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The Saatchi brothers, Maurice and Charles, were launching their new agency in New York and were determined to have a workspace as unique and distinctive as the work that they created for their own clients. After a long search to find “just the right location”, they finally found a dramatic space on the top floor of a 19th century mercantile building in the Union Square area – a brick shell with cast iron columns and an intricate wood framed roof.  It was decided early on that the best approach to the design of the space was one where there would be a strong and contrasting dialog between the old and the new, between the fussy and the minimal. 

Being located on a top floor, skylights were opened, new skylights were added and a wood-burning fireplace was installed. A wide variety of areas were fashioned where teams could meet and create or where staff could simply sit alone and think.

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The Neighborhood Defender Service (NDS) of Harlem, a venerable legal advocacy non-profit, needed to move and expand into new headquarters in West Harlem and found a 10,000 square foot space within a 20,000 sq ft floor on Lenox Avenue. Our design approach was based on creating an open and flexible space with many opportunities for collaboration among the various housing, immigration and criminal legal teams. In high contrast to the traditional wood paneled, law firm layout with private offices lining the outer perimeter, we opened up the space so that everyone can enjoy the generous light and views this modern space offered. Clients who visit the space perceive it as a welcoming and reassuring environment, with a sense they are receiving the high level of professional service that they deserve. Internally, the NDS leadership also came to see the space as an effective means of recruiting a high level of legal talent.

Later, NDS received significant grants to expand the services they offer and took the remaining 10,000 sq ft so we recently continued the same design approach to give the floor a sense of continuity, adding yet more meeting and collaborative spaces.

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