The "Factory"
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  This project was CP+B's first opportunity to create their own space from scratch. It was our job to create a design that would embody and express the agency's identity.
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Agora
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 Main circulation spine populated with "billboards"
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 The idea that defined the design strategy is the notion that an animated, in-your-face, "creative looking" space (typical of many ad agency designs) does not necessarily make the best creative environment.  When I presented this concept in our
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 Constructing the mezzanine: The new steel structure, spanning 50' between the central row of columns and the columns along the exterior wall, attaches to the existing concrete columns with large winged collars. We used pairs of I-beams to minim
 The existing concrete structure was capable of supporting a mezzanine level with a maximum area equal to 1/2 of the floor's footprint. This limitation drove the design strategy of shifting the mezzanine entirely to one side of the central columns.
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Mezzanine Construction
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