How can a series of curated spatial experiences help promote a company’s values?

When The Broad Foundation and Family Office looked to move from Century City to a location more central and accessible to their stakeholders, partners, and communities they work with, they once again asked ShubinDonadson and designer Jennifer Littke of SETSTUDIO to envision and deliver their new home in Downtown LA. Located on Bunker Hill, one block away from The Broad, this high-rise office space is organized as a series of curated spatial experiences that help promote the organization’s mission and values. 

As you proceed through the elevator lobby, your first experience is the Education Library – a warm, textured, inviting social space designed to remember and preserve the story of the Foundation’s founders, Eli and Edye Broad. Filled with a rich material palette, all the way up to the low coffered ceiling, this room, which is based on the Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand exhibition “House for a Young Man”, serves as a domestic, shared space aimed to induce curiosity and promote conversation. Fold-up windows help connect the Library to the Kitchen, creating a combined social area. 

Transparent individual offices are at the project's core, while open workspaces surround the perimeter creating an egalitarian work area filled with natural light and views of the city skyline. The architecture, with its clean, simple lines and elegantly detailed office fronts trimmed in white oak, lends itself as the ideal backdrop to the Broad family's art collection. It is complemented by the circulation spaces, which encourage a culture of interaction and camaraderie.