Slack Technologies

Slack Technologies

Location / Vancouver
Project Type / Interior Design
Size / 22,000 sf
Completed / 2018

Photography / Ema Peter

Award-winning communications-based software company Slack located its multi-level headquarters in Vancouver’s Yaletown heritage district.  Slack HQ re-imagines an industrial space into an interconnected multi-level open plan office, with modern detail and everyday, utilitarian materials. The new offices retain the heritage character of the building by exposing the masonry walls, heavy timber post and beam structure, and mechanical infrastructure as design elements.

Slack Technologies

The second level of the Slack offices opens through an atrium seating area and stairwell that connects the main level with a small lounge overlooking Hamilton Street. Balancing the industrial atmosphere of a tech-company headquarters, the offices retain warmth with an eclectic mix of locally sourced furniture and artwork, and abstracted natural elements. The concept of an ‘interior nature’ is explored with the mossy wall, located at the heart of the headquarters. Overhanging this space is sculptural pendant lighting by local creative firm, Molo Design. The organic shapes, suspended in the high space between upper and lower levels like floating clouds or tree mushrooms, connect working and social space.

Slack Technologies
Slack Technologies

Features:

2017 September Canadian Architect Cover Feature
FRAME – The Other Office 3

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