A national design firm was ready to make a change at its Chicago office and wanted a space that better fits the work it does.
KTGY recently moved into 13,000 square feet at 225 W. Randolph St., combining its architecture and interior design studios under one roof.
The new office currently houses 41 employees with room to fit up to 75. KTGY consolidated its offices previously at 605 N. Michigan Ave. and 217 N. Jefferson St.
KTGY Interior Design Principal Gina Deary said the new office was designed with Chicago’s evolving workplace landscape in mind while offering a more “functional” layout than the firm’s previous space.
“One thing that we discovered from working at home is that you can do everything at home: You can get your dry cleaning, you can go to the grocery store, you could do all these things that during the day that you might not have been able to do,” she told the Chicago Business Journal. “So for the new office design, it was really important that we created a space for different ways to work.”
KTGY’s new Chicago office has collaboration space that offers both open and enclosed options.
KTGY’s new office features closed offices for designers to work privately. It has collaboration space that offers both open and enclosed options, offering employees the same flexibility they would have at home. “The idea was we tried to get as few barriers to coming to work as possible,” Deary said.
While KTGY initially focused its office search on the Fulton Market District, a lack of availability and pricing pushed the firm toward the West Loop.
“We looked at a lot of space and one of the challenges was a lot of the office spaces in Fulton Market were subleased and that wasn’t something we wanted,” she said.
Originally built in 1967, the 32-story, 850,000-square-foot Randolph building presented KTGY with classic architecture combined with modern amenities. The property recently reopened after a full gut renovation and has attracted new tenants including Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors and Northwestern Mutual.
“There’s pickleball courts, ping-pong rooms, different bars, golf simulators – I can go on and on,” Deary said.
