# New Squarespace HQ

> I am a big fan of the company Squarespace. They have a great and beautiful product. I use them for globizen.com. Recently they moved into a new office in Lower Manhattan (98,000 sf), which was a consolidation of 4 distributed offices. The interiors were designed by New York-based A+I. Not surprisingly, it’s a beautiful space:(Photography by Magda Biernat via Contemporist) But two other things stood out for me. One: The amount of informal working/meeting spaces. I really had to look for the co...

URL: https://paragraph.com/@brandondonnelly/new-squarespace-hq
Author: Brandon Donnelly
Published: October 6, 2016
Categories: interior-design, office, office-design, office-space, squarespace, startup, tech, uncategorized

I am a big fan of the company Squarespace. They have a great and beautiful product. I use them for globizen.com.
Recently they moved into a new office in Lower Manhattan (98,000 sf), which was a consolidation of 4 distributed offices. The interiors were designed by New York-based A+I.
Not surprisingly, it’s a beautiful space:
(Photography by Magda Biernat via Contemporist)

But two other things stood out for me. 
One: The amount of informal working/meeting spaces. I really had to look for the conventional office seating.
Two: The ground floor presence and the lobby which doubles as a possible event space.
For consumer-facing companies, I am really attracted to having a street presence and having spaces that can be programmed. It’s a way to engage and plug in to what’s happening beyond the office. Here’s a related example.
I’m not sure if their narrative is the same as mine, but regardless: cool space.