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Macmillan Learning Tenant Improvement in Austin
Apr 3, 2021
Macmillan Learning Tenant Improvement
Architecture: Cushing Terrell
Location: Bouldin, Austin, Texas, USA

The tenant improvement project for Macmillan Learning‘s 32,000-square-foot office in Austin, Texas supports their goal to cultivate knowledge sharing among customers and team members alike. A publishing company that develops digital tools for the education industry, their mission is to enrich lives through learning.
To meld the team’s innovative, technical culture with a collegiate ethos, the workplace is highly functional and well-organized to nurture processes essential to creating learning tools. Simple forms and a primarily earth-toned palette with pops of color create warmth, while custom-milled bookshelves are used as focal points throughout the space. Areas for collaboration, focus, and celebration are incorporated to reinforce the unity and synergy of Macmillan’s diverse talent.
Design challenge and solution: The large training room and break room are on the second floor above another tenant, which meant the team needed to come up with a structural reinforcement solution without impacting the space below. The solution was to reinforce the training room from above rather than the floor below.
The team secured the beams to the slab concrete floor instead of putting steel around the beams in the fl...