The Publicis Groupe is a French multinational advertising/public relations company that sought to create an interactive office space that focused heavily on collaboration and a flexible work environment for their 73,000 SF Philadelphia office. Architecture affiliate, MDA designed a space that was not only engaging for a post-pandemic return to the office but supported a new model of hot desking and flexible seating assignments. MDA achieved this by mapping out a floor plan that deviated from a static environment of offices and cube workstations to a dynamic plan of lounge collaboration seating, plethora of meeting rooms in varying sizes from 30+ person war rooms to intimate two-person meeting rooms. Each internal agency has a dedicated space on the wings of the building with large open areas of hot desking, soft seating collaboration areas, meeting rooms, and a centralized oversized pantry, and adjacent town hall cafe. It was important to keep a sense of culture and the energy that is crucial to each agency's creativity. A smaller footprint but denser headcount required solutions that are fluid and moveable.
Status: Built
Location: Philadelphia, PA, US
Firm Role: Architect & Designer
Additional Credits: Image Credit: Ola Wilk Photography/Wilk Marketing Communications
