Boston, MA – Located at 320 Summer Street within Boston’s Innovation District, Spagnolo Gisness & Associates, Inc. (SG&A) is designing a first class, approximately 100,000 SF headquarters for remote desktop company LogMeIn, Inc. (NASDAQ: LOGM). The company is making the move from its current location at Unicorn Park in Woburn to this rapidly developing area of Boston in February 2013.
A former textile mill, the brick and beam site LogMeIn chose to house its new headquarters is comprised of 8 levels including a dramatic mezzanine level. The design program accommodates a maximum capacity of 500 employees through the use of efficient floor and workstation planning, made more efficient by LogMeIn’s policy of no enclosed offices.
This open environment is supported by many various types of meeting rooms and open collaboration spaces, encouraging the company’s culture and core concept of connectivity.
Employees and guests are greeted by a video feature wall which displays large scale versions of the company’s business card next to a photo of the employee. The image and text run in a loop and feature all staff, immediately connecting visitors to employees and employees to each other.
Also off the reception area is a 3 story atrium that leads to the mezzanine and café levels, encouraging both visitors and employees to engage with the space. The café is 4,000 sf, accommodating 185 seated employees, and is fully transformable to house both small meetings, large conferences, and every event in-between.
“SG&A has truly crafted a design that represents the logistical and global nature of our business. The design caters to the modern realities of a mobile, collaborative workforce, and reflects the high-paced nature of a growing technology business,” said Michael Donahue, Vice President at LogMeIn. “We were thrilled to work with the design team at SG&A and enjoyed the collaboration process necessary to create a new and exciting workplace for LogMeIn.”
SG&A designed a unique floor identity system for LogMeIn, giving the office an exciting wayfi¬nding experience. The core of each of the seven full floors celebrates one of LogMeIn’s global office locations including London, Sydney and Budapest. This connection to LogMeIn’s global presence unifies the office and provides context for this dynamic headquarters.
This is further expressed in special rooms off each pantry that are themed to the city of the floor on which they are located. Employees are encouraged to utilize each floor for these diverse rooms and their various functions. If employees are looking for snack or space for lunch, they can head over to the 4th floor where they will find a space done to mimic the beach including a boardwalk, loungers, umbrellas and beach balls. If employees are seeking a more secluded and quiet break, they can find it at floor 3 in the London Library complete with leather sofas, antiqued pendant lights, a lending library and a quiet zone rule.
Topping off this design is an approximately 5,000 sf roof deck with sweeping views of the Boston skyline designed by landscape architects, Carol R. Johnson and Associates (CRJA). LogMeIn’s move to the Innovation District will be exciting for their employees and economically beneficial for this budding waterfront district.
About LogMeIn, Inc.
LogMeIn (NASDAQ: LOGM) provides essential cloud services to individuals, businesses, and IT organizations for remote access, collaboration, customer care, and remote IT management. These services are used by millions of people to quickly, simply and securely connect over 150 million internet-enabled devices across the globe — computers, smartphones, iPad™ and Android™ tablets, and digital displays. LogMeIn is based in Woburn, Massachusetts, USA, with offices in Australia, Hungary, India, Japan, the Netherlands, and the UK.
About Spagnolo Gisness & Associates, Inc.: Spagnolo Gisness & Associates, Inc. is a full service architectural, interior design, and planning firm built around a strong design culture that is truly client inclusive. Located on the historic Boston waterfront, SG&A offers comprehensive design and planning services to educational institutions, corporate end-users, healthcare organizations, and commercial real estate developers for a variety of project types, located in New England and around the country.
