Chicago, Illinois, USA
From the ground floor onwards, Gensler’s Accenture Tower Offices are a sensorial experience that takes visitors and clients on an immersive innovation journey through a digital and physical landscape.
“The glittering spectrum of light the city reflects served as inspiration for the color and finishes throughout the space, with architectural elements and textures seen throughout the vibrant neighborhoods of Chicago, creating a unique human-centric experience on each floor,” states Sarah Adams, Design Director at Gensler.
This “vertical city” offers workspaces, specialty labs, and hospitality areas, throughout the multiple floors.
Visitors are able to navigate this city-like office with their phones using an Accenture-developed app.
Through QR codes, the app can activate the turnstiles located on each floor, track occupancy in real-time, and reserve various meeting rooms.
Moving from the 20th floor to the 26th of the Accenture Tower, visitors follow a “safari” that begins with spaces that help facilitate making.
This features immersion rooms, labs, production spaces, and a broadcast studio.
The top floors are meant to be client-facing, with spaces to foster ideation, connection, and collaboration so the design team has designed meeting rooms, co-working lounges, and refuel stations.
The flexible working environment, the movable walls, and the adjustable furniture pieces give the ability to the employees to design their own spaces as they see fit, based on their ever-changing needs throughout the day.
Whether it’s for all-staff gatherings, community events, heads-down work, or impromptu meetings, these environments can be reconfigured and adapted with ease.
Project: Accenture Tower Offices
Architects: Gensler
Client: Accenture
Photographers: Kendall McCaugherty
