Playster

Playster is a young and fast-growing company that provides a global subscription-based entertainment service, with offces in New York and Los Angeles. ACDF Architecture was commissioned to design its headquarters on Peel Street in downtown Montreal. Making the most out of the original setting – a 1980s-built offce tower - the architects used the existing walls to create a variety of vibrant private spaces, thus saving resources and money. To give their clients an environment suited to the company’s high energy and creativity, the architects developed a contemporary, open concept design highlighted by a clever play of bright colours and white surfaces.

The architects proposed an exciting chromatic pattern that reinvents the 18,000-square-foot space. Reminiscent of the company’s logo, blocks of colour saturate the walls and carpets creating a strong visual impact and demarcate different zones in a fluid progression. The colours encourage team gatherings in the open space and stimulate a sense of belonging among the employees as each team has its own colour. ACDF’s flexible, open-plan workspace design adapts to small-group work sessions as well as large collaborative and creative atmospheres.

A white corridor balances the strong identity of the colourful areas. It acts as a spine, connecting meeting rooms and links the bright sections to one another, and functions as a place of respite from the lively vibe of the offces. White vinyl panels in the corridor defne several breakout areas where employees can have a chat and rest from their busy schedules.

Playster now enjoys flexible and stimulating offces, where creative work emerges from fruitful social interactions.

ACDF Architecture
Maxime-Alexis Frappier, Joan Renaud, Veronica Lalli, Martin St-Georges, Alain Larivée, Valérie Soucy

Mechanical-Electrical engineer: Christian R. Roy inc.
Project manager: CBRE
General Contractor: Avicor
Furniture: Haworth