This confidential financial services firm partnered with Gensler to redefine their headquarters presence in the Americas, creating a premier employee and client experience. Thoughtful design and furniture selection, access to charging locations throughout, and the firm’s suite of technology tools come together to create a workplace that truly enables “working from anywhere.” Hospitality-forward moments include a sky lobby reception, custom metal laser-cut media wall, sky lobby cafe, coffee bar, terraces, health and wellness facilities, and an innovation lab. The double-height trading floors boast 20-foot ceilings, and floor-to-ceiling windows flood the rooms with natural light, a stark contrast from a typical trading floor.

Lighting played a critical role in the overall design and to achieve the desired results Apogee was initially tasked with custom fabrication of the main event ceiling using its flagship Lightscape products, providing a turnkey solution combining Apogee and NewMat technologies.  Apogee developed the unique lighting solution to provide a specific glow to the ceiling grid layout that Gensler envisioned.  Working with lighting designer Kungler Ning’s superior creative design solution, Apogee provided custom LED pendant cylinders featuring side lighting to provide light within the coffers in a tight optical pattern, accenting the installed millwork, yet allowing for matching of the downlight functionality in the rest of the environment.  Apogee’s cylinder design achieved the effect, eliminating any uplight at all, which was a key ingredient to KN’s design.

For the donut pendant above the coffee bar, Apogee created a two-level chandelier.  Functionally the job was to cast extra illumination on the area with one level utilizing Lightscape and the other Lightscape Linear.  The physical result achieved was a very specific geometric contemporary look accentuating and exactly matching the contour of the counter. 

The floors connected via spiral staircases, with mezzanines overlooking the trading floors. Apogee created lighting for the spiral staircases featuring omni-directional high output light engines that provided unobtrusive diffused light as part of the overall design of the stair.