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“We made sure the writers, editors and photog-
raphers had a variety of places for meetings and
heads-down work,” says Zurowski.
Combined, the ground level, mezzanine and
editorial floors have 34 phone rooms, 560m 2 of
collaborative workspace, and numerous formal
and informal conference rooms, many of which are
named after Pulitzer Prize winning stories and staff.
“While there are significantly fewer private
offices, and smaller footprints for individual space
in the new premises, there is much larger shared
amenity space.”
Acting as a core artery, a massive staircase runs
from street level through to the fourth floor. A few
steps up is a 390m 2 cafe, open to the floors above
and designed to encourage daily interaction between
the different departments and publications.
“The millwork steps, made from reclaimed urban
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