Hospitality-Driven Design Shapes Roivant’s Manhattan Office

For its Manhattan workplace, the biopharmaceutical company tapped Architecture Plus Information (now merged with Perkins&Will) to design a dynamic, hospitality-forward space that would bring employees back to the office and encourage in-person collaboration. It also needed an adaptable configuration: Roivant convenes its full employee base several times a year for company-wide gatherings. As such, “The client needed a space that felt full of energy, whether hosting its entire workforce or only its New York–based staff,” explains associate principal and studio director Virginia Chiappa Nunez. The strategy hinges on choice. A variety of desking, offices, and flexible work lounges are located on the entry floor, characterized by bright, open areas. Darker, more intimate zones offer contrast and a graphic theme to draw movement toward communal and event spaces. With collaboration areas, lounges, and even terraces wired for connectivity, staffers can work anywhere and everywhere. A wide, spiraling central staircase offers a 360-degree view of the action, serving as both literal and symbolic connective tissue.