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Chamberlain Hrdlicka enlisted Gensler to renovate its downtown Houston office into a more modern and welcoming environment for its employees and clients. Focusing on themes of transparency, teamwork, and engagement, the design team strategically planned a space that offers a functional workflow and developed workplace neighborhoods that create adjacencies and an ease of accessibility between colleagues. A notable design feature is the connective staircase that anchors the office’s two floors and allows employees direct access to hospitality-like amenity areas. Overall, the new space exemplifies Chamberlain Hrdlicka’s commitment to creating an environment that reinforces the value the firm places on its people and the desire to b... More

As part of an ongoing series of nationwide workplace projects commissioned by Fox Rothschild LLP, leading architecture and design firm FCA recently unveiled its latest renovation for the law firm’s existing Seattle office. Completed in April 2022, the stay-in-place renovation for the 20,350-square-foot office included visioning, programming, and design. Located in the heart of downtown Seattle’s central business district, the renovated office provides a flexible and modern workspace for staff to engage in while taking part in a hybrid work schedule. Jeffrey Totaro After conceptualizing the office overhaul in 2019, FCA and Fox Rothschild recognized that the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated a shift in project direction. The Se... More

CCA is one of the leading law firms in Portugal, with more than 70 years of history. Recently, CCA decided to change the location of its headquarters in Lisbon and create a modern and appealing office. In an old industrial building in the Port of Lisbon, the new office occupied an open space with double-height ceilings, which allowed the creation of a mezzanine and a great diversity of work, meeting and collaboration areas. Following the project designed by SpaceWorks, Vector Mais built the entire interior of the new office in a mix of new solutions and recovered existing elements, adapting them to the needs of the law firm's dynamic team. spacesandplaces.pt spacesandplaces.pt The new CCA headquarters now features a library and l... More

Appealing, professional and comfortable offices of the law firm combine the elegant and modern interior with high-quality LED lighting, offering optimal visual comfort for its employees. The law firm opted for elegant and highly efficient luminaires with low energy consumption and a long lifetime. General illumination is ensured with a direct / indirect lighting using Kyra, which delivers homogenous illumination and a low UGR. Light intensity can be controlled via Casambi, as well as up and down light. Having a 2CH DALI incorporated, light can be adjusted separately, offering the employees to select the level of light based on their mood, their requirements of work and daylighting conditions. Caption In order to enhance the inte... More

The interior architecture is minimalist but thoughtful, with attention to every little detail, every single tone, nuance and material in the space has been carefully selected to create a harmonious, precise and natural feel with haptic qualities. The 3D faces wall at the main entrance creates an animated experience while walking across it in the reception area, it reflects the diversity of cases handled by the office team. A monumental stair links the 2 floors, creating a center piece sculpture.A palette of wood and plaster in muted tones creates an informal, home-like environment that is more akin to a lounge than an office. More

On the right side of the lawTV series never lie: From Matlock to Harvey Specter, from Dr. Renz to Danni Lowinski, the affairs of the legal profession havefascinated the western hemisphere for decades, if notcenturies. However, even this guild is not spared the challenges of the new millennium: the war for talent runs through all the professions. Oppenländer Rechtsanwälte would not be Oppenländer Rechtsanwälte, however, if they did not know how to turn a tricky case to their favour. So instead of resting on their laurels for being regularly listed among Germany’s leadinglaw firms, the law firmlocated on Stuttgart's Börsenplatz came up with a new idea: to redesigntheir officespace to meet the changing requiremen... More

HEU & Co. lawoffice is located at Midtown office tower, a new 50-stories high-rise at the center of Tel Aviv's business district. The tower is part of an urban mixed-use development complex that includescommercial, office, and residential spaces, as well as parking lots. To the South, a view of the city’s skyrises and the Ayalon Highway. To the West, abreathtaking panoramic view of the city and the sea.   Given that HEU & Co. law firm has a specific specialization in real estate, representing entrepreneurs and contractors, we incorporated features from the construction practice into the project design. The raw concrete wall with the grid of exposed steel rebars at the back of the front desk and the front desk itself are... More

Green Hall 2, a cutting-edge business centre located on a bend of Neris River, is distinguished by its soft architectural forms. Structural plan, interior and furniture design of the Černiauskas ir Partneriai law firm and Blockchain centre, both based on the top floor of the business centre, excellently corresponds to the streamlined shape of the building. The office includes a lounge area which could be transformed into an informal work space. It could also be easily adapted for conferences or large-scale events.   Height adjustable desks, aluminium strip ceilings and veneer wall panels cover communication lines and constructions necessary for a modern work space. Cabinet walls provides privacy while the glass partitions create a fe... More

Upon entering the room the user is greeted by a range of texture and materials that make him explore the environment in a sensory way. The project commissioned by a law firm in São Paulo, Brazil, arose from the need for a space for interaction and exchange of knowledge. The living area should be the highlight of this expansion. We implanted this space in the center of the ensemble, and worked from it so that it was a point of light (glare) that radiates to the rest of the room.   To delimit the lounge, we developed a suspended wooden luminaire with tensioned screen, creating a plane of diffused light. An interesting and intentional counterpoint emerges when mixing a material of weight like typical Brazilian wood with a super c... More

Norton Legal is new workplace for a modest but sophisticated contemporary law firm within an existing industrial building in Melbourne's west.   After our initial research phase (surveys, interviews and site analysis) we realised that with a compact warehouse of 76sqm we didn't have enough area to accommodate all the required spaces and program. This included traditional office areas such as a meeting room, entry/waiting and reception area, printing and archive spaces, bathroom and shower, kitchen, storage and a lunch area. In addition our client had recognized the opportunity for her workplace to facilitate better work life balance by including a place for kids to hang out after school. Sound control was also very important for work... More

Established in 1951, Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP is a leading international immigration firm that provides services for both corporate and individual clients. For the relocation of their headquarters to Midtown, the firm enlisted to TPG to design a forward-thinking, innovative new legal workspace that promotes their highly collaborative culture while reflecting the quality of their practice – dedicated to helping their clients accomplish their complex immigration goals. The new office elevates the employee experience and transcends the idea of what the landscape of a modern law firm can achieve. Tom Sibley The 10th floor serves as the main point of reception and was designed with hospitality touches in mind inclu... More

On the 25th floor of an office building in downtown Montreal, a masterclass in design engineering, collaboration and retrofitting took place between Skyfold engineers and architects. THE DESIGN CHALLENGE  HUMÀ design + architecture was tasked with redesigning a multipurpose conference room for law firm BCF. The conference rooms were being used for client meeting spaces and employee training. In both cases, privacy and noise control were top concerns. In the original design concept, HUMÀ was considering traditional movable walls, but limited floor space meant that storage closets on the floor for horizontal panels were out of the question. Instead, HUMÀ, wanted to give their clients a flexible space solution t... More

MA PROJECT was tasked with a multi-functional space design for headquarters of the law firm Pepeliaev Group, located in Moscow, Russia. Pepeliaev Group is a leading Russian law firm that offers a full range of legal services in all regions of Russia, CIS countries and abroad. More than 160 lawyers in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Krasnoyarsk, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Vladivostok, Beijing and Shanghai provide legal support to more than 1,500 companies engaged in various sectors of the economy; 50% of them are international corporations carrying out long-term investment projects in Russia. The main goals of the project were to design an office that meets all the internal needs of a large, growing company; to create an open, comfortable, and welcoming w... More

Through our client’s desire to reinvision an antiquated office building along Shoal Creek, we were able to create a contemporary yet neighborhood-appropriate law office. The design utilized the simplicity of the building’s mid-century form as the backdrop to a vibrant and dynamic design driven from the inside-out. The roof of the existing central courtyard was lifted up off of the building to create a light-filled entryway that highlights the owner’s artwork and allows the central core of the building to receive even natural light. The front corners of the building were wrapped in glass to create daylit conference rooms of differing sizes. Playing off of the new facade and program, steel planters of varying heights soften... More