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BMT Design
Big Monster Toys
10,000 s.f.
750 N. Orleans
Chicago, Illinois
Creating an office and studio for the toy industry’s preeminent designers called for an imagery evocative of the firm’s purpose.
First seen through a seamless glass storefront within the shell of an existing loft, are a profusion of different colored and textured fragments of support offices that establish the theme of the “secret workshop.” Visitors encounter spaces connected by a suspended model train and defined by iridescent glass panels and a backlit glass door. The elegance of the partners’ conference room, with its orthogonal relationship to the building grid, inviting black leather chairs, and mahogany, ebony, and fabric paneled walls, provides a respite from the prevailing anarchy.
First seen through a seamless glass storefront within the shell of an existing loft, are a profusion of different colored and textured fragments of support offices that establish the theme of the “secret workshop.” Visitors encounter spaces connected by a suspended model train and defined by iridescent glass panels and a backlit glass door. The elegance of the partners’ conference room, with its orthogonal relationship to the building grid, inviting black leather chairs, and mahogany, ebony, and fabric paneled walls, provides a respite from the prevailing anarchy.
A translucent gate swings into the terrazzo-floored presentation room, where rolling chairs can be pulled up to a round table beneath a skewed red soffit for game-storming sessions.