This 1800 square foot project was designed and built in 6 weeks. Preceding the involvement of Caples Jefferson Architects, the client acquired urgently needed expansion space adjacent to their existing offices on a short-term lease. They wanted to enjoy the panoramic views of the Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn skylines while also providing dense clusters of offices and workstations to their employees.
The reception area was viewed as a large rectangular space in which the 30-foot-long reception desk floats like a vast barge. This space is bounded by transparent glass partitions that maintain the axial and diagonal views of the New York City skylines. The layers of revealed unfinished construction and the new highly refined glass and plaster finishes are textural counterparts. Textural and linear alternations on the ceiling penetrate into the reception area to reinforce the major axis of the space.