McKinsey & Company 
Canadian Headquarters
Toronto, Ontario
2000
Taylor Hariri Pontarini Architects
 
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- Three-storey mass divided into two wings
- Plan emphasises potential for interaction and the resulting development
   of ideas within a collegial environment
- Three-storey high meeting place is called the 'hive'
- Shared functions and breakout rooms are located at the centre of each
   floor adjacent to the three-storey hive
- Workstation are clustered in groups
- Only partners have enclosed offices, located amid the workstations
- Plan gives workspaces access to windows which have small operable
   openings
- The staircase, which creates the main connector between floors, is 
   discontinuous, and the large landing between the second and third floors
   encourages informal meetings and impromptu conversations

- Concrete frame when for its three-storey height heavy timber construction
   could have been considered as a more ecologically sensitive solution
- Basement parkade
- Main floor is raised 50 cm above grade


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