Legal offices
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Projeto • By Tuncer Cakmakli Architects • Escritórios
Law Offices for Eartquake Victims
When the earth moves, it is not only the foundations of cities that tremble, but also the invisible structure of meaning we call civilization. Adapazarı, 1999 – a rupture in time, a seismic trace of loss, but also of a profound need for dignity amidst collapse. In that moment, the Bars of Athens and Istanbul did not respond with a legal memorandum or a bureaucratic protocol. They responded with a gesture – an architectural one.
TCA was summoned – not merely as a provider of physical structures, but as an interpreter of a collective urgency. What emerged was more than a series of temporary law offices: it was an architectural palimpsest, written on the fractured ground of a devastated city.
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Projeto • By Spacesmith • Escritórios
Boies Schiller Flexner (BSF)
Spacesmith was engaged by law firm Boies Schiller Flexner (BSF) as executive architect on the build-out of their new headquarters in the Hudson Yards development. Our team worked closely with design architect Schiller Projects on the execution of the four-story space, floors 18-21, covering 110,730 sf. The goal of this project was to challenge the traditional hierarchical design of law offices and provide more spaces that foster collaboration, communication, and innovation.
Photo credit: Eric Laignel
Photo credit: Eric Laignel
To achieve this switch in culture, the design flips the script on the long-established layouts of legal offices. The majority of partner offices are now located along the core, as opposed to the corner. The... Mais