Designed by Perkins+Will, Interface, Inc., world-leading modular flooring company for commercial applications and leader in sustainability, chose to repurpose a 1950s-era office building in Midtown Atlanta as its new global headquarters. Although new buildings can be built extremely ?green? and energy-efficient, it can still take anywhere from 10 to 80 years to make up the negative impacts of a new construction project due to the role of embodied carbon within building materials. True to the Interface ethos, it was important that these new headquarters reflect who the company is, what they do best and the core values they live every day.
Photography: Bruce Quist
The headquarters ? named Base Camp by employees ? incorporates design features that benefit both the employees and the environment. In addition, the new space supports the company?s global initiative to create positive spaces for the people who use it, benefiting guests, employees, the surrounding community and clients. The building provides Interface?s Atlanta employees, previously dispersed among several locations, with a unified space and collaborative workplace. Base Camp?s design offers flexibility in how and where employees work within the office. Photography: Bruce Quist
Developed and designed in partnership with JLL, Perkins+Will, MSTSD and Parkside Partners, the 40,000-square-foot headquarters also functions as a living showroom for Interface?s extensive line of flooring collections. Building on Interface?s...