Redesigning a Manhattan Office Building
It's one thing to redesign a house. It's another thing entirely to gut and renovate 10 floors of a Manhattan skyscraper, as Pfizer recently did (NY Times article, free registration required) when expanding its New York Headquarters. The article provides a great look at the colossal resources brought together to pull off a project of this magnitude:
“'Typically,' said Amy Jakubowski, the interior designer for Brennan Beer Gorman Monk Interiors, 'one design firm would handle all aspects of a project. Under this tight deadline, however, we were charged as the architect of record to lead three different firms -- our firm, a separate architect responsible for space planning and programming, and a third firm in charge of interior design.'”
The article notes that Pfizer saved money by using glass-and-wood partition design for private offices (instead of drywall) and going with one carpet style for the entire building (also cheaper, plus it gives better visual consistency). I wish it went into more details about those kinds of improvements, but you still get an idea of the tremendous value of interior design in this kind of project.
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