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Every company that rings the bell here sees the room in its own colors.Design Republic was the architect for the reimagi...
10/23/2026

Every company that rings the bell here sees the room in its own colors.

Design Republic was the architect for the reimagined Nasdaq MarketSite in Times Square. It is still home to the opening and closing bell, but it is now also a client experience center, an event venue and a working broadcast facility, across two floors.

The Client Experience Center hosts up to 400 guests. Studio B holds 150 for IPOs, interviews and live broadcasts, with panoramic views of Times Square. The Gallery is for networking and celebrations, and a 2,100-square-foot terrace sits above the square. Boardrooms, huddle spaces, green rooms, a café and bar, and Nasdaq’s CEO suite fill out the rest of the floor plan.

Most of the technology stays out of sight. Acoustic partitions drop from concealed ceiling pockets to divide the event space. Lighting shifts to match each company it hosts. It feels like a hotel lounge, even though it’s wired like a TV studio. Built for the day a company goes public, and for every day after.

LEED Gold.

This week’s project highlight is GIC. They came to us during a period of exponential growth and needed a workplace that ...
10/15/2026

This week’s project highlight is GIC. They came to us during a period of exponential growth and needed a workplace that could handle current demands and expand with them. The plan was to consolidate subleased space on the upper levels and fully renovate their newly acquired 10th floor. That included an interconnecting stair and an amenity-rich café on Level 10.

Our approach balanced bold and organic elements. A natural, refined palette, the connecting stair, and a central café in the spirit of hospitality bring energy out from the core. Moments of respite with greenery run throughout, so that energy stays in balance.

The result is a space that reflects the people who work in it.

Two floors. 90,000 SF. LEED Gold. Fitwel 3-Star.

What gets more use in your office, the café or the conference room?

📷 Magda Biernat

The details for Convene at 555 Broadway are worth a closer look.At reception, the oak desk is trimmed in marble and set ...
10/13/2026

The details for Convene at 555 Broadway are worth a closer look.

At reception, the oak desk is trimmed in marble and set with small red inlays at the joints, and the rug is cut to follow its curve. In one of the event rooms, a mural of oversized figures wraps the walls, broken by a single panel of deep red. The pantry pairs blue plaster with a bookmatched marble backsplash, its corners rounded off, and that same blue shows up again behind a red column in the Grid Studio. Out in the main hall, the original brick fireplace holds books instead of logs, a quiet nod to the building’s publishing past.

Design by . We served as Architect of Record.

If you could only splurge on one material in a space, which would it be?

09/25/2026

Last night at the CoreNet NYC REmmy Awards, our project King & Spalding at 1290 Avenue of the Americas won Project of the Year in the 99,000–200,000 SF category.

Thank you to King & Spalding for trusting us with their new home, and to our OneGlobal partner tp bennett, who led the design concept. Thank you also to everyone on the team who helped get 190,000 SF across the finish line, and to CoreNet NYC for a fantastic evening.

Congratulations to all the winners across all categories! Proud to be in such good company.

As the weather turns, we're looking up — at the terraces of King & Spalding's new global headquarters at 1290 Avenue of ...
09/24/2026

As the weather turns, we're looking up — at the terraces of King & Spalding's new global headquarters at 1290 Avenue of the Americas. Four floors, four terraces, and VIEWS. The largest terrace runs 4,000 square feet and holds 180 people — built for layouts that are meant to flex from a client reception, team gathering, or a quiet minute outside.

Weather permitting, they work year-round. But there's something about catching them right now, as the light changes with the season, that make an outdoor room feel like the best seat in the house.

We are proud to have served as technical design and delivery architect, working alongside concept designer tpbennett as part of the ONE Global Design alliance.

Every office has a center of gravity. The cafe. The town hall. The lounge people drift to between meetings. These aren'...
09/08/2026

Every office has a center of gravity. The cafe. The town hall. The lounge people drift to between meetings. These aren't leftover space — they're where culture actually happens.

At Gannett, a family-style table anchors the whole floor. At UniCredit, a former trading floor became a café. At NBCU Chicago, the Speakeasy gives a newsroom somewhere to breathe. At GameChanger, the kitchen is the first thing you see off the elevator.

All designed with purpose. If you put the heart in the right place, everything else organizes around it.

Where's the center of gravity in your workplace?

This week's project spotlight is Starwood Capital's offices, a project that could have easily been built around a view. ...
09/04/2026

This week's project spotlight is Starwood Capital's offices, a project that could have easily been built around a view. This one, we built around the light.

In the angular Solar Carve Tower, Starwood Capital’s offices lean into the building’s geometry — diamond-shaped rooms, triangulated corners, black-metal-framed glass. Frosted workstations and light-filled offices allow the daylight to move through the plan and makes the space feel alive.

Making sure to soak up the last of the summer sun.

Design Republic joined SPK/Lewis and Rockstar Games at the Homeplate Suite to watch the New York Mets take on the Milw...
09/01/2026

Design Republic joined SPK/Lewis and Rockstar Games at the Homeplate Suite to watch the New York Mets take on the Milwaukee Brewers. Great food, drinks, and even better company — plus our group got invited onto the field for a pregame photo!

Thank you to SPK/Lewis for having us out for a fantastic evening.

Groundtruth (Formerly xAd) outgrew their Flatiron office in six months and expanded into 43,849 square feet at One World...
08/24/2026

Groundtruth (Formerly xAd) outgrew their Flatiron office in six months and expanded into 43,849 square feet at One World Trade Center. They didn't want a bigger version of the former space, they wanted the same energy at a bigger address.

We designed to their three values.

Transparent: no private offices, full circulation at the window line.
Disruptive: angular millwork that folds from bench seating into credenzas, glass portals framing the Statue of Liberty.
Relentless: a café sized for every kind of break. Naps included.

"The space itself, we think, generates revenue." — Steven McCarthy

A staff lounge with a river view. Also a broadcast set.The "Speakeasy" at NBC Tower does both — somewhere to get away fr...
08/12/2026

A staff lounge with a river view. Also a broadcast set.

The "Speakeasy" at NBC Tower does both — somewhere to get away from the desk on a normal day, a shootable location when a special broadcast needs one.

It came out of the work Design Republic led to bring NBCUniversal's Local News and Local Telemundo operations onto the 2nd floor and a partial 4th: studios, newsroom, technical production, office space. Partners by Design served as architect of record and ONE Global Design partner.

A space built for high-intensity news but designed to provide daylight and room to think for the people making it.

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