Morrison Foerster

The design of the law offices for this client underscores three key design principles — innovation, compelling aesthetics, and timelessness. The project, completed well over a decade ago, features a two-story reception area with two intercommunicating stairs opening onto the firm's law library. Because law offices are so document-intensive, the office entryway includes a wall-cabinet to hold the firm's many legal files. Custom millwork includes filing shelves behind swing doors, interspersed with art niches, to showcase the firm's contemporary art collection. Light filters into the space through the deployment of glass clerestories that surround the entire office perimeter.