Architecture | Electrical | HVAC | Plumbing | Structural Engineering

Our 20,000 SF office breathes new life into one and a half floors of the previously dormant warehouse building located in Buffalo’s Cobblestone District. The design was driven by the desire to capitalize on the amount of natural daylighting afforded by large windows while maintaining the raw character of the original warehouse space. Massive concrete columns tightly spaced at 11’-0” on center established a grid for the layouts of workspaces and define boundaries between departments. A common utility area is located within the office core, defined on one edge by a wall clad in bamboo that cuts an axis down the center of the main office floor before moving upward and folding overhead to create a soffit to define the reception area and then folding downward to create both a connection to the stair leading to the offices on the floor below. The reception desk made of bamboo board-formed concrete panels and inset with bamboo wood planks visually connects the reception area to the wood wall and stair.