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Design a space that marries a forward-looking company's past and future by conveying a sense of integrity, substance and independence.
At 800,000 sq ft (74,320 sq m), Moody's Corporation's new headquarters at 7 World Trade Center demonstrates the company's commitment to its clientele and Downtown Manhattan. As space and infrastructure demands strained its existing facility, the company made a bold decision to leave its mid-century, mid-rise home for a nearby shimmering glass tower. SHCA's challenge was to create an environment evoking discretion and a sense of history within a new glass box. Responding to Moody's need for numerous private offices and flexibility for growth, designers developed a 'menu' of modular elements, including interior office and workstation clusters, with both fixed and pliable zones. Analysts' offices hug the perimeter wall, ensuring privacy, while their fritted glass interior walls allow natural light to penetrate the larger work area. An elliptical dining area offers respite from the ordered geometry of typical floors and the conference center communicates Moody's history and global presence. A golden bas-relief panel, a reproduction of the sculpture that graced the company's former main entrance, greets visitors to the conference center. Such reminders of the company's past can be found throughout the new space, conveying stability during the transition.
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The overall plan was activated by the unique parallelogram form of the building’s floorplate.
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A strong concept of developing modular elements such as Support Hubs, office clusters and workstation clusters became instrumental in designing flexible, typical floors.
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Flexibility and modularity of furniture systems for both offices and workstations was a critical factor.
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The layer of perimeter offices was perforated with fritted glass allowing natural light to penetrate deep into the floors.
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Pantry and copy areas were incorporated into major circulation paths and became collaboration and interaction zones.
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The Staff Dining area was conceived, by the design team, as a respite from the dense, ordered grid of the typical floors.
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Sculptural form of the servery became a focal element of the staff dining.
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The Conference Center is designed to convey a sense of Moody’s rich history as well as their Global presence and perspective.
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The dozens of conference rooms that comprise the floor are entered through wood-paneled portals which punctuate the generous corridors and lead to quiet, refined rooms with extraordinary views of Lower Manhattan.
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Visitors to the Center are greeted in a gracious reception area that is dominated by a large golden bas-relief panel - a reproduction of the sculpture that graced their main entrance on Church Street for fifty years.
