The Bloomberg European Headquarters achieves a unique and inspiring office environment while providing a warm and inviting public realm experience for the surrounding financial district. It was also awarded a 98.5% score against the latest BREEAM sustainability standards achieving an “Outstanding” rating. The intricate layers of lighting used to render the exterior facades give the appearance of self-illumination. The perimeter lighting system of the upper office floors features the rich materiality of each unique building elevation comprised of bronze and stone soffits and geometric vertical fins. A continuous, LED uplight is recessed within the interior base of the windowsills at each typical floor allowing for easy access. The ground level is topped with a ribbon of crystalline fins, edge-lit with concealed LED’s adding sparkle and creating a unique identity for the two lower floors. Accent lights located between the fins provide soft ambient light while linear LED’s are regressed within the top of the stone plinth to uplight the generous stone soffits.

The focal point of the Ground Floor is the ‘Vortex’ - an entrance lobby comprised of three sinuous wood walls that curve inwards to become the ceiling plane, culminating at a highly specular Olafur Eliasson artwork. The solution of grazing LED uplighting at the base of the three walls accentuates the architectural forms without distraction and brings the art piece to life with intentional, watery ripples of reflections. Clusters of accent lights at three ceiling slots provide down lighting. The large scale, spiral ramp ascends 6 floors above the Vortex to the central skylight. The ramp serves as a “chandelier” providing ambient light to the atrium from linear LED fixtures recessed behind custom bronze louvers at the underside of each step.

The bespoke, LED-integrated ceiling system shimmers, creating a vibrant, unique and inspiring workspace. White desk top surfaces reflect light onto the semi-specular ceiling adding depth and vibrancy. Stone core walls washed with recessed, linear LED’s provide essential vertical illumination. The base of each ceiling "petal" indirectly reflects light up into the inside of each lobe which aids in reducing the contrast. The 3-dimensional shapes provide a natural shielding from glare.

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