Brunswick Offices – Mettawa

Reflecting Brunswick's market leadership in the fitness, marine and billiards industries, the company's new workplace embraces activity and motion as its central spatial idea. A deliberate step away from Brunswick's previous, more traditional office environment, the design establishes the company as a forward-looking brand and gives its people work settings as varied and engaging as the products it makes. Circulation is organised as a network of walking routes that define neighbourhoods, double as fitness tracks and connect staff to a wide range of settings for collaboration, teamwork and focused work. Details throughout the interior refer back to Brunswick's own projects and products: a wall curves as if it were a boat hull, and the material palette draws on wood, steel, felt and slate, materials that define the company's goods and lend the space a tactile, engineered warmth. The result is an office that treats movement as productivity, that lets colleagues choose between social and quiet zones, and that elevates the brand by making the workplace itself a demonstration of the company's design ethos. Project details are limited in the source material.