RO Architects + Planners, Inc.

Anzac Corporate Offices   
Miami, Florida

Services: Architecture, Space Planning, Interior Design and Lighting

  The design concept for the Anzac Corporate Offices was the result of a close collaboration between Architect and Owner. It is a manifestation of the Owner’s programmatic needs and the realization that their staff spends more awake time at work than they do at home. Thus a space that uplifts and inspires. The basic shell was a two story, rectilinear, industrial type bay, which the Owner agreed to modify in order to permit the expression of a two story volume. The space is sculptured as a juxtaposition of rectilinear and 45 degree grids, and multi-level planes. It is lit primarily by indirect lighting and strategically located accent lighting, and is vertically connected by a sweeping staircase. A major objective was to provide acoustical privacy, yet transparency, for all the offices, so they can have direct or borrowed light and a view of the lake across the way.