The Conference Center, located on the second floor of 17 State Street, a high rise office complex in downtown Manhattan, was designed to provide a modern facility for meeting and training rooms solely for the tenants of the building.

 

CONFERENCE CENTER, 17 State Street, New York City

Working within the building standard framework a range of different sized conference rooms and single lecture room were designed along a central passageway. The defining curve of the exterior wall was set off against the orthogonal central core to form the centrally located waiting area and custom designed telephone booths. This and the reception areas form the focal point of the center where control and interacting takes place.

The program called for a range of different sized conference and meeting rooms that would be flexible to change with user requirements. The flexibility is achieved through the use of mobile furniture units that contain the necessary functional requirements of the center, such as white boards, monitors/videos and projections equipment. When combined with the different size rooms, a number of variations are possible that meets the user needs.