5 Things You Need to Know About MulvannyG2's New Seattle Digs
MG2--formerly MulvannyG2 Architecture--has returned to Seattle from Bellevue, designing its new digs at the 1101 Second Ave building. Here are five things you need to know about the new space of one of Seattle's largest architecture firms.
MG2’s new Seattle office celebrates its recently refreshed brand through distinctive visual elements and a flexible layout, CEO Mitch Smith tells us. One of the coolest spaces is a street-facing exhibit area that will house various rotating installations and be available for community events.
To renovate the space, MG2 brought together its retail, office and brand strategy teams to create an environment that showcases the firm’s history in retail design while demonstrating the company’s commercial design point of view.
MG2 held an internal design competition and charette session to generate feedback and creative ideas from all staff, ensuring that each employee had a voice in the ultimate design.
Mitch says his favorite view in the office is from the corner third-floor conference room with floor-to-ceiling windows, looking southeast down 1st Avenue toward the stadiums and Elliott Bay.
The building was originally designed by Paul Thiry, the “father of Pacific Northwest modernist architecture,” and built in 1967 as the Washington Mutual Bank HQ.
