Prutha Raithatha Design

PRD provided a concept deck for spot renovations of the Bulgari Manhattan corporate offices. Influenced by Italian luxury and Bulgari jewelry itself, it’s existing space was proposed to be lifted up by luxury and biophilia.

100,000 SF - 4 Floors

As the first London location for Convene, 22 Bishop’s gate is designed to set the tone of luxury co-working spaces in the UK.

Employer: Convene

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Role: Design Director - Overseeing the entire project coordination from lease review, to design, to mechanical services in collaboration with a partner architect.

Convene is a co-working start up that wanted to try a new product beyond their usual meeting, workplace and events venues. Calling it an “Innovations” lab, these spaces are designed to be used by incubators and start-ups to brainstorm ideas. This location would have additional amenities facilitate incubators, like a podcast studio, maker spaces, a cafe for the building and multi-functional rooms for group sessions.

Employer: Convene

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Role: Design Director - Designer - Established concept, developed design and directed execution.

9,000 SF

Hokindee is an online watch blog that over the past 10 years has turned itself into a full retail and online media company. Hodinkee’s project requirements were to create a retail component that caters to their huge fan base and watch collectors, while establishing a mood that represents their brand. It is here that celebrity interviews and podcasts can also take place.

Employer: Corgan

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Role: Project Lead - including winning the project based on past project work and maintaining client relationship, concept and design development, consultant coordination and construction documentation.

Bustle.com is a fun feminist media company that was growing at an exponential rate. Their 3rd floor served as their executive floor, designed with fun, clean lines and flexibility to have large town hall type of meeting space at the front of the floor.

Employer: Corgan

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Role: Project Lead

34,000 SF

Headquartered in New York City, Bustle is a young and diverse online media company.

During the visioning and concept development phase, “Speed of Light” was established as the inspiration for design. Being located in an artist studio environment, the design needed to respect the existing architecture of the loft like site. Through artistic design solutions, the concept was a recurring element throughout the space. In the welcome zone, light was used to create an experience. In the pantry area, a slow-exposure light print wall-covering by Paul Smith was used. And in the open office areas, colored glass doors were used to allow natural light to do a dance of colorful cast shadows. Light remained a strong concept without being too obvious and the remaining finishes remained raw and less polished to let the existing space keep its character.

One of Bustle’s objectives was to have their celebrity visitors have an Instagram-able moment. This can be found in the welcome zone where a big Bustle sign is reflected into infinitely in the mirrored room. This visual started trending on social media instantly. Bustle’s new physical space is now on par with their virtual web space, allowing the greatest reach of any millennial-focused site.

The new program included approximately 115 open benching workstations per floor, 8-10 private offices per floor, one large convertible boardroom, smaller meeting rooms, huddle spaces, collaboration zones, phone booths and two multi-functional pantry areas. Additional space requirements for Bustle included a photo studio with an attached green room, a podcast recording studio and a Facebook Live room.

Through a highly collaborative process, the final design solution gives Bustle a strong brand identity with unique and creative spaces. Every aspect of the design makes for a cohesive, fun, creative statement, while staying within the client’s budget and expedited project schedule requirements.

Employer: Corgan

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Role: Project Lead – Won project through interview with client, visioning, program development, design, documentation, construction admin and close-out.

Publication: Published in Interior Design Magazine

Corporate interior renovation of LinkedIn’s offices that are located in the Empire State Building. Spot renovation included new pantry design, conversation of some meeting rooms and conference rooms and added additional work stations. Manhattan (20,000 SF).

Employer: Corgan

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Role: Document production

PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS:

20,000 SF of interior space + roof top.

Highly technical project with state-of-the-art technology and audio visual component.

Custom chef’s kitchen with a collaborative dining/multi-purpose room.

Located in a Landmark Building.

Change of use Alt-1 and Place of Assembly DOB applications.

Employer: Corgan

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Role: Project Lead

Avid is a global audio technologies company who has been instrumental in the continued evolution and elevation of the media industry for the past 30 years.

The tech company opened its newest office near New York’s famous Grand Central Station and needed design help. The office needed to house a small staff and showcase the creative and brilliant minds behind the brand. The challenge laid in meeting the client’s particularly tight budget, so we needed to get creative.

The “white-boxed” tenant space was reprogrammed with a new layout to accommodate the client’s needs. Corgan added mirrored iridescent window film to add a strong design element to the space at low cost that had high impact.

This instantly added value to the client’s branding in the space.

Employer: Corgan

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Role: Project Lead

comScore is a trusted partner for planning, transacting and evaluating media across platforms.

comScore came to Corgan with the intent to upgrade their existing space and culture. Not knowing how to get there and what the client really wanted for their new culture, required for Corgan to conduct a detailed workplace strategy workshop with the client. This included 3 exercises: Trash to Treasure - Image review - Culture cards. The results of the vision session provided the design team with the guiding principals for the design and allowed the client bring clarity to the direction of the firm’s future.

Employer: Corgan

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Role: Project Lead - Participated in the project interview and won the project. Conducted visioning and workplace strategy workshops with the client team. Schematic Design.

Employer: Corgan

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Role: Design concept + SD

Design option for a financial services firm in Manhattan.

Employer: Corgan

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Role: Designer. Renderings by others.

A collection of test fits from different projects of varied sizes, programs and locations.